May
31
A Big Industrial Move For CO2 to Algae
May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Linde Group is currently the leading supplier of CO2 in the U.S., providing CO2 for processes like dry-cleaning, welding gases and cooling food products. Linde is an industry leader that employs about 48,000 people and earned nearly $18 billion in the gases and engineering sector in 2010. Linde has announced a partnership with Sapphire [...]
May
30
Another Kind of Hydropower From Rivers
May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
At Stanford University researchers have developed a “rechargeable battery” that uses freshwater and seawater to create electricity. Aided by nanotechnology, the battery employs the difference in salinity between fresh and saltwater to generate a current. A power station might be built wherever a river flows into the ocean. Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science [...]
May
27
A Better Cheaper SuperCapacitor
May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
There was a temptation to headline with the word ‘natural’ as Dr. Woo Lee, the George Meade Bond Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology and his senior design team of Rachel Kenion, Liana Vaccari, and Katie Van Strander has designed biochar electrodes for supercapacitors. Today supercapacitors are used [...]
May
26
Major Thorium Fuel Reactor Progress
May 26, 2011 | 6 Comments
The first firm we’ll look at is Flibe Energy, a new company that will develop small modular reactors based on liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology. Flibe Energy is a new company founded by Kirk Sorensen who was (is still?) chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown. The second is Thorenco LLC, founded by Charles S. Holden [...]
May
25
Better Cheaper Hydrogen Production Large & Small
May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments
Two new hydrogen production methods made news this week, one to be small enough to carry and one industrial scale. The industrial size process comes from Dr. Mohamed Halabi a freshly minted PhD at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The paper is his PhD dissertation, “Sorption Enhanced Catalytic Reforming of Methane for Pure Hydrogen Production [...]
May
24
New Record Set For Flexible Solar Cells
May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology scientists at Empa have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible photovoltaic solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (also known as CIGS) to a new world record of 18.7 percent. The same team achieved the previous record of 17.6 percent in June 2010 making [...]
May
23
The Gold of the Late 21st Century
May 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
It’s phosphorus. The element of great importance – its essential for life – humans and animals need it for healthy bone formation, and plants need it to grow. Without it for fertilization of food crops, the supplies will drop over a few years much further than markets can adapt. Some people will fall into malnutrition, [...]
May
20
GreenCarCongress leads the news about Japan’s Kobe University researchers developing a yeast species capable of directly fermenting ethanol from cellulosic materials. Just how the folks at GreenCarCongress manages that without a press release coming out is a mystery and it also leaves us at some mercy for the writer, Mr. Mike Millikin’s own interpretation. Mr. [...]
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