Aug

11

Plastic Recycled Back to Oil Jumpstarts

August 11, 2011 | 9 Comments

JBI of Thorold, Ontario Canada has entered into an agreement with Rock-Tenn Company to convert Rock-Tenn’s mill by-product waste into petroleum products using JBI’s Plastic2Oil™ technology. JBI’s Plastic2Oil™  can use unwashed, mixed waste plastics.  JBI developed and scaled up the original processor, then enhanced and commercialized a process that converts difficult to recycle waste plastics [...]

Aug

3

Electricity Prices Should Go Higher

August 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

ICF International a major consulting firm has let slip two news reports out of their research that should cause consumers to perk up and get on with conservation, energy saving and cost cutting measures. In the broad sense the two reports are showing a shortfall in generating capacity coming over the rest of the decade. [...]

Jul

8

A Printed Antenna That Harvests Power

July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

At the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Manos Tentzeris, a faculty researcher in the Georgia Electronic Design Center, is leading a team that’s discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. Tentzeris explains, “There is [...]

Apr

26

Spark That Engine With A Laser

April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

After more than 150 years engine manufacturers are one step closer to being able to replace spark plugs in internal combustion engines with laser igniters. Laser igniters are reputed to enable cleaner, more efficient, and more economical vehicles. So far lasers strong enough to ignite an engine’s air-fuel mixtures were too large to fit under [...]

Apr

6

A Way to Not Buy Concrete Again and Again

April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Making cement is a major use of natural gas.  Then comes the transport, steel and other construction materials that usually are involved with concrete structures.  Building things uses plenty of energy, and making them last has important implications. Charles Carraher, Ph.D., explained at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society last [...]

Mar

2

A Major Energy Source Re Discovered

March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Elizabeth S. Heidrich at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom is leading a team that gives new meaning to the adage, “waste not, want not.”  These scientists are reporting via an American Chemical Society online podcast that household sewage has far more potential as an alternative energy source than previously thought. The podcast is based [...]

Nov

11

A 7% Solution – Recycle Plastic Back to Oil

November 11, 2010 | 11 Comments

Blest, a Japanese company has invented a safe and user-friendly machine that can convert plastic back to oil. The machine is effective in recycling different kinds of plastic into oil. Plastic is one of the most versatile synthetically produced materials in the world and is also one of the environmentally unfriendly substances produced by man.  [...]

Nov

8

Catching CO2 At Low Cost

November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

The TU Darmstadt’s Institute for Energy Systems and Technology’s newly dedicated pilot plant will be utilized for investigating two new methods for CO2 capture that will allow nearly totally eliminating CO2 emissions and require virtually no additional energy input and entail only slight increases in operating costs. Known as carbon capture and storage or CCS [...]

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