Aug
17
Convert your Car to a Hybrid
August 17, 2012 | 38 Comments
Dr. Charles Perry at Middle Tennessee State University continues driving toward success in the development of the plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for any car. Dr. Perry, his collaborators and students are very close, very close indeed. Perry, who holds the Russell Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, and this year’s five-member team saw gas mileage increase anywhere […]
Aug
16
New Tool Doubles Production of Butanol and Cuts Costs
August 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
A new discovery at the University of Illinois should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. Scientist Hao Feng has found a way to significantly reduce the cost of the energy involved and a way around a bottleneck that has frustrated producers in the past. Feng explains, “The first challenge in […]
Aug
15
The 17th International Conference on Cold Fusion Is Underway
August 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
The 17th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-17) is being held in Korea’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon this week from August 12th through August 17th. The news is starting to come out now. With more than 150 scientists from around the world participating in the conference by making oral […]
Aug
14
A Breakthrough in Electricity From Wastewater
August 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
Wastewater, more commonly thought of as sewage or gray water is estimated to use 3% of the electrical energy consumed in the United States and other developed countries. Engineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater. There have been other […]
Aug
13
Moving The Lithium Ion Battery Goalpost
August 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
GM’s CEO Dan Akerson said Thursday the small battery company Envia backed in part by General Motors is working on breakthrough technology that could power an electric car 100 or even 200 miles on a single charge in the next two-to-four years. Envia has developed a cathode material based on inexpensive metals (including manganese) that […]
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