Jul
19
Debt Limit Insanity
July 19, 2011 | 6 Comments
Last week your humble writer was awoken by a dream of the Federal Debt Limit being increased and the dollar value crashing. Dreams are inexact things that might portend the future – perhaps they are early warnings systems of the unconscious or subconscious. Dreams are surely nothing to do with energy and fuel, and nothing [...]
Jul
18
TU Delft student of Sustainable Energy Technology Stefan Roest has developed a new type of hybrid solar collector with a higher efficiency and a longer lifespan than the hybrid panels on sale today. A hybrid solar panel combines a photovoltaic solar cell that converts sunlight into electricity with a thermal solar collector to harvest infrared [...]
Jul
15
Understanding Dry Rot Fungus to Make Fuel
July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
A large group of scientists has published a study that explains a noteworthy information set about the differences between the common and dreaded dry rot fungus that attacks wooden structures and the familiar white rot fungus. With a full genome now published a much larger array of data is available and some interesting application potential [...]
Jul
14
Solar Cells Printed On Paper
July 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s not a joke, MIT’s Miles C. Barr, Jill A. Rowehl, Richard R. Lunt, Jingjing Xu, Annie Wang, Christopher M. Boyce, Sung Gap Im, and Vladimir Bulović led by Karen K. Gleason are printing photovoltaic cells on regular paper. Moreover, the process as being reported in MIT News, its possible to print on ordinary untreated [...]
Jul
13
Building Structures With Quantum Dots
July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Quantum dots are particles of semiconductor material that can absorb and emit light efficiently. For many looking into the future these really tiny dots of material offer great promise. University of Toronto (UT) researchers examining the photosynthetic apparatus in plants have been inspired to devise and engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and [...]
Jul
12
Biodiesel May Be Produced In A Continuous Process
July 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
Today biodiesel is made by the batch, a naturally less efficient way for processes to run. A continuous process would be less expensive to run, easier to manage and need less storage and product movement both in front and at the finished side. Continuous biodiesel production would get less expensive, more competitive and become more [...]
Jul
11
Building Step One for Major Geothermal Growth
July 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
University of Nevada’s Bureau of Mines and Geology in the College of Science funded by a $1 million Department of Energy grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has reached the one-year mark. The money is being spent to understand and characterize geothermal potential at nearly 500 sites throughout the Great Basin [...]
Jul
8
A Printed Antenna That Harvests Power
July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
At the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Manos Tentzeris, a faculty researcher in the Georgia Electronic Design Center, is leading a team that’s discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. Tentzeris explains, “There is [...]
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