Apr
16
A Step Forward of Hydrogen Directly From Algae
April 16, 2013 | 3 Comments
A group of researchers at Uppsala University, led by Senior Lecturer Fikret Mamedov and Professor Stenbjörn Styring, have now made a discovery on hydrogen production from green algae. The team’s study paper has just appeared in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new research fuels hope of […]
Apr
15
A New way to Upgrade Ethanol to Butanol
April 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
Duncan Wass explained a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with the substantially better biofuel additive called butanol at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. In view of some experts regarding butanol as “the gasoline of the future” the report on this discovery holds […]
Apr
12
Raising the Energy Value of Natural Gas by 25%
April 12, 2013 | 3 Comments
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has announced a system that converts natural gas using sunlight into the more energy-rich fuel called syngas. The new system offers a 25% increase in available energy. Making the syngas uses concentrated solar power. Solar energy comes to a reflecting surface that concentrates the sun’s rays […]
Apr
11
How Long Will My Battery Last?
April 11, 2013 | 1 Comment
Mikael G. Cugnet, Ph.D. spoke on the question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles (EVs) using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the battery pack dies? A view to the answer was presented at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), may surprise skeptics. […]
Apr
10
Using CO2 Over and Over and Over
April 10, 2013 | 1 Comment
Wojciech Lipiński, Dr. Sc.Techn, said at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) of recycling carbon dioxide (CO2), “It may seem like trying to put the genie back into the bottle. But it already has been proven with laboratory scale equipment. The process uses three of the worlds most abundant and […]