Feb
15
An Elegant Answer to the US Biofuel Challenge
February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from corn, now well past the E-10 or 10% blend share and looking to get to 15% and much more E-85 (85%) sales plus various ratios in […]
Feb
14
Looking At Batteries From the Inside with an MRI
February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
At breakthrough for developing the batteries of the future was announced this week by researchers at Cambridge University, Stony Brook University, and New York University. The research group has developed a methodology based on magnetic resonance imaging, the MRI we are familiar with, to look inside a battery without destroying it. Advanced batteries are the […]
Feb
13
Building a Better Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst
February 13, 2012 | 6 Comments
In a stunning statement, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), chemists using an engineered catalyst in single molecule form that when dropped into acidic water and even seawater, the catalyst molecules generated hydrogen for several days without letup. Quote, “When lots of these single-molecule catalysts were dumped into acidic water and even seawater, they generated hydrogen […]
Feb
10
Cold Fusion aka LENR to be Reviewed at CERN
February 10, 2012 | 14 Comments
Francesco Celani and Yogendra Srivastava will be leading a kind of informal meeting called a colloquium at Europe’s fundamental physics facility, CERN. The topic, “Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)” will be discussed March 22, 2012 in the CERN Council Chamber. Of note is the event will be viewable […]
Feb
9
Now a Little Controversy Involving Cold Fusion
February 9, 2012 | 11 Comments
It’s enough to make one smile with the silliness of the thing. As noted here last week Electrical Engineering Prof. Peter Hagelstein at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) taught an Independent Activities Period course titled “Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments”. Dr. Mitchell Swartz, of JET Energy and Prof. Hagelstein […]