Sep
17
Second Cold Fusion Goes Commercial – Big Money Standing By
September 17, 2013 | 15 Comments
Brillouin Energy has entered into its first international licensing agreement covering three nations. The firm is involved in on-going negotiations for other potential international partners. This makes the second Cold Fusion or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction (LANR) and Brillouin’s Controlled Electron Capture Reaction (CECR) idea to attract commercial interest. The […]
Sep
12
LEDs Get Much More Efficient and More Useful
September 12, 2013 | 1 Comment
Dr. Lai Yuk Ming, Dr. Loo Ka Hong and Prof. Michael Tse at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Electronic and Information Engineering have developed a high performance LED driver. The new driver powers LED lights with an innovative approach called “multi-level” PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation), which delivers remarkable improvements in terms of light quality […]
Sep
11
Nature Guides A CO2 Capture Idea
September 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The Esser-Kahn group from the University of California, Irvine led by Aaron P. Esser-Kahn, Ph.D. envisions using the amazingly efficient lungs of birds and the swim bladders of fish as inspiration for a new filtering system to remove carbon dioxide from electric power station smokestacks. The effort to capture CO2 comes from the major concern […]
Sep
10
Answers For the Gasoline vs. Ethanol Debate
September 10, 2013 | 2 Comments
A soon to be released Fuel Freedom Foundation study shows a tweak to an automobile’s engine software can improve the estimated fuel efficiency by as much as 20% when using gasoline with ethanol or methanol and setting the engine to run at an optimal setting for the higher octane in so-called alcohol fuels can cut […]
Sep
5
Spray On Materials For Building Solar Cells
September 5, 2013 | 1 Comment
University of Alberta researcher Jillian Buriak, a chemistry professor and senior research officer of the National Institute for Nanotechnology and her team have designed nanoparticles that absorb light and conduct electricity from two very common elements: phosphorus and zinc. Both materials are more plentiful than scarce materials such as cadmium and are free from manufacturing […]