Jul
31
A New Way To Fracture Oil and Gas Wells
July 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
GASFRAC of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has developed an innovative closed stimulation process and injection method, utilizing gelled LPG rather than water based conventional formation fracturing fluids. The firm has developed a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or propane based gel that is as natural to a well as soil is to the earth. It’s dissolves into [...]
Jul
30
The Changed US Patent Law – America Invents Act
July 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
The following is a Guest Post by David J French, an Ottawa patent attorney with 35 years experience practicing before the Canadian and United States Patent Offices. I have written this posting for NewEnergyandFuel in response to Mr. Westenhaus’ post July 24th entitled, US Patent Office Starts Regulations From New Patent Law. Here is my [...]
Jul
27
Since the transistor replaced the vacuum tube about sixty years ago an ever-growing avalanche of electronics has enriched lives. While the thought about one’s power blocks and power supplies doesn’t seem like much in a home, everyone plus the support in businesses, governments and the data centers of the internet and cloud sum up to [...]
Jul
26
Here Come Virtual Power Plants
July 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Researchers from the University of Southampton have devised a novel method for forming “virtual power plants” – from the small and distributed energy resources (DERs), like wind farms, solar panels, small hydro and others that have begun to appear in greater numbers in the electricity supply network or the “Grid”. To make sure energy demand [...]
Jul
25
Mineral Prospecting Goes Very High Tech
July 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Prof. Lev Eppelbaum of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences with the late Prof. Boris Khesin of Ben Gurion University have developed a new method for processing and analyzing the data of complex environments such as the complex environment of mountain ranges. Much of the expectations of energy and fuel production, use [...]
Jul
24
US Patent Office Starts Regulations From New Patent Law
July 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
The America Invents Act (2011, H,R. 1249), the first patent law reform in 60 years has started its rule making process. Surprised? There’s a new patent law in the U.S. and it did get done under the radar of much of the economy unlike other revolutions over the past few years. In typical Congressional style [...]
Jul
23
Can UCLA Save Solar Panels?
July 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
In the face of a string of intensely demoralizing federally backed alternative energy projects with Solyndra taking over a half billion dollars alone – solar panels seem to lead the way into a dead end. Except that China’s solar industry is very much alive and competitive. The technology advances usually start in the U.S. But [...]
Jul
20
The Vital Little Green Guar Bean
July 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
The guar bean grown in the northern India state of Rajasthan is now a key element in the chemical cocktail used to frack wells, the technology that has prompted the oil and gas boom sweeping across North America and is set to spur a worldwide boost in oil and gas recovery. The key product is [...]
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