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30

More Fantastic Fusion Than Rossi’s E-Cat

November 30, 2011 | 12 Comments

More Fantastic Than Rossi’s E-Cat Out of Cleantech via Al Fin Energy comes a hint of a nuclear fusion company more fantastic than the Rossi E-Cat.  While the E-Cat is already looking at manufacturing facilities, the newest drama comes from Australia. Authors of a fresh Kachan report on new, safer, cleaner nuclear technology interviewed dozens [...]

Nov

29

Efficient Utilitarian Truck Looks Good

November 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

The “Trailer 2011” show in Belgium features an aerodynamic trailer by Mercedes Benz that offers a reduction in wind resistance by up to 18%, with an accompanying decrease in fuel consumption by almost 5%.  In the U.S alone that’s a big part of a million barrels a day of crude oil not used. And it’s [...]

Nov

28

Much More Energy from Switchgrass

November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) a DOE Bioenergy Research Center led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made an important step in switchgrass production. The team of JBEI researchers, working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has demonstrated that [...]

Nov

25

40,000 Battery Charging Cycles

November 25, 2011 | 4 Comments

Those lithium-ion batteries we’ve come to appreciate in cell phones and other small portable electronics don’t last as long as one would like – the full charge shrinks a little with each recharge. Stanford researchers have developed part of a new dream battery with a new electrode that employs crystalline nanoparticles of a copper compound.  [...]

Nov

24

Thanks In the Face of Hardship

November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

This Thanksgiving Holiday follows others without a break; with hardship on some, confidence lost for many and uncertainty for everyone.  We all have good reason to be suspicious.  But: The story for Americans after a year of trials is to take a day for thinking of the positive and spending thoughts on what is good, [...]

Nov

23

Big Improvement to Erbium Doping Materials

November 23, 2011 | 1 Comment

Erbium isn’t likely on most folks news watch list, but the rare earth element is used more than we realize and a material doping improvement has significant potential across a wide set of fields. Arizona State University researchers have created a new crystal material compound called erbium chloride silicate.  Electrical engineering professor Cun-Zheng Ning at [...]

Nov

22

Cold Fusion to be Shown Conclusively as LENR

November 22, 2011 | 5 Comments

An announcement is saying that cold fusion is actually a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) and includes the Rossi E-Cat and the Defkalion device.  Brian Wang, who has been in touch with a leading scientist Brian Ahern, has located the press release for the Flash Summit 2011 due up December 7, 2011 in New York [...]

Nov

21

Results on the Enzyme That Matters Most

November 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

Scientists working at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken an important step towards understanding how nature makes plant food from nitrogen. For now feeding and fueling humanity uses synthesized ammonia in NH3 form by a process that requires high temperatures and pressures that consumes an estimated 1.5 percent of the world’s [...]

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