Jun
20
A Whole New System
June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
There’s an anchor in the U.S. economy. The chain needs cut setting innovation and creativity free. While the topic today isn’t energy and fuel, getting minds and capital focused depends in a major way in shifting attention and funds away from waste to productive research and development. Dave Chase writes in Linkedin’s Tech Crunch about [...]
Jun
17
Up Close Look at Biofuel’s Nemesis – Lignin
June 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with a “first of its kind” combination of experiment and simulation is providing a closeup look at the lignin molecule that bedevils making next-generation biofuels. Lignin is a major component of plant cell walls. During processing it aggregates or clumps up, which cause problems during the [...]
Jun
16
A Very Different Fuel and Fuel Cell
June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Out of Poland comes an alternative fuel and fuel cell. The fuel chosen is formic acid and the fuel cell runs at room temperature. A room temperature operation seizes attention; formic acid makes for a set of questions. Dr. Andrzej Borodziński at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw [...]
Jun
15
Will CO2 Capture Become Cheap?
June 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
The European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners has completed lab tests and is set to demonstrate a cost-effective CO2 capture technology. Called the DemoCLOCK project, with a budget of €8.2 million, it is based on a special version of a technology called Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC). This a [...]
Jun
14
Now There Is Super Steel
June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Detroit inventor Gary Cola working at his proprietary lab setup at SFP Works, LLC. has developed a heat treating process for steel that produces a super steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds. The new super steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite, has tested stronger and more [...]
Jun
13
What’s Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery and What Can It Do?
June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
The financial crisis of 2008 and the high gasoline prices that have haunted consumers since has the Peak Oil debate pressuring enhanced oil recovery. Today there are many countries talking about the long-term impact that the consequences of Peak Oil might have on their economies and world relations. Discussion is addressing how best to reduce [...]
Jun
10
Spending $100 Million a Day Pays Off
June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Exxon’s CEO Rex Tillerson announced back in March plans to spend $100 million a day for the next five years to expand the search for oil and natural gas previously thought to be impenetrable and inaccessible. The geologic formations of the firm’s exploration prospects extend from Greenland in the far north to Madagascar off Africa [...]
Jun
9
A Better Geothermal System
June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
Two University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences researchers, Earth sciences faculty member Martin Saar and graduate student Jimmy Randolph have developed a new way for tapping heat beneath the Earth’s surface. The pair has already named the method, called CO2-plume geothermal system, or CPG. The research was published in the most recent issue of [...]
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