Jan

31

Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 | 4 Comments

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

Jan

30

A Reduced Energy Way To Distill Alcohol

January 30, 2012 | 10 Comments

University of Manchester (UM) academics won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 demonstrating graphene’s remarkable properties.  Now Professor Sir Andre Geim’s team in a report published in Science shows that graphene-based membranes are impermeable to all gases and liquids as vacuum-tight.  Except – The new finding gives graphene’s potential a most surprising dimension – [...]

Jan

27

A Government Divided Against Itself Is a Mess

January 27, 2012 | 5 Comments

World Nuclear News is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is to help push forward the manufacture of small modular nuclear reactors. This contrasts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) standing record of never approving a new reactor design.  The December 2011 “approval” by the NRC of the Westinghouse AP1000 is not a [...]

Jan

26

Canadian Tech May Give Geothermal New Prospects

January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment

For seven years Ontario’s inventor Ian Marnoch has been developing a new kind of “heat engine” that he says can generate electricity more economically from lower-grade heat.  While that heat could come from anywhere: the ground, the sun, or an industrial waste process, geothermal needs a much better temperature spread to achieve wide ranging use. [...]

Jan

25

Better LENR News From Greece

January 25, 2012 | 13 Comments

The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named “Hyperion”.  PDGT had for a time an opportunity to learn what Rossi has accomplished and since is proposing [...]

Jan

24

The Sparks of Economic Destruction

January 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

Your humble writer had a tense conversation with a former banker yesterday over the points that trigger economies to topple out of their comfortable zone.  Amazingly this banker is convinced the problem is not spending enough money from the government down to the poor.  The belief is printing money or “quantitative easing”, going into debt, [...]

Jan

23

Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

January 23, 2012 | 7 Comments

U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

Jan

20

Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

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