Dec

31

Store Renewable Energy Yourself

December 31, 2010 | 8 Comments

The state of Maine is cracking the market open for self-storing of renewable energy with a collaboration between a wind company and a thermal energy storage company.  According to a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report the collaborative Highland Wind project proposed by local wind developer Independence Wind will offer any participating Maine household a $6,000 [...]

Dec

30

Ferment Two Sugars at the Same Time

December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Xylose comes from woody plant structures, its a five-carbon atom sugar and is a primary target in lignin and cellulose biomass fermentation.  But most yeast cannot ferment xylose sugar.  Now a collaboration led by researchers at the University of Illinois, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California and the oil company BP are [...]

Dec

29

Good Energy Jobs in the Future

December 29, 2010 | 9 Comments

One sure thing for future employment is in nuclear.  Now with three decades past the partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island and further expansion of nuclear power at a standstill, years of stagnant hiring comes to, as the American Physical Society, an independent group of physicists put it, “a greatly reduced interest [...]

Dec

28

A Look At The Ethanol Lies

December 28, 2010 | 50 Comments

Let’s start with a lie, albeit most likely the lowest level of lie, everyone is lying about ethanol.  It has gotten so that the lies are pervasive, even such that John Stossel at Fox News is making quotes and suggesting that ethanol is a huge political boondoggle. Admired bloggers like Robert Rapier have allowed emotional [...]

Dec

27

The EEstor News

December 27, 2010 | 20 Comments

* This Space Left Blank Intentionally * The comments and emails over the past year deserve some response and the notation above, familiar to those who’ve seen prepared legal documents will see the humor, explains the situation.  Looking for EEstor news and information in 2010 is a very thin activity. But does it mean anything? [...]

Dec

24

A Happy Holidays Challenge

December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

There’s the politically correct headline, but since so many think “Merry Christmas” is some sort of mental assault, this writer would point out that Happy Holidays is a sort of mental assault on Christians.  A cynic might say it’s just an assault on a majority, which incidentally practices forgiveness, so it’s really easy to get [...]

Dec

23

Renewable Petroleum Is Getting to Scale

December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

LS9, with a fresh $30 million in hand is planning to ready LS9′s lead products for commercial production and support additional development and growth programs. Raising money in 2010 was tough, but all of LS9’s big investors returned for a fourth financing round plus the huge BlackRock in New York joined in.  A year ago [...]

Dec

22

Wind Turbine Technology Can Improve

December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Syracuse University and University of Minnesota researchers have come up with two new ideas to enhance efficiency of wind turbines. With funding support from the U.S. Department of Energy through the University of Minnesota Wind Energy Consortium, the Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) research team is testing new intelligent-systems-based [...]

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