Jan
12
Will The Price of Oil Go Up or Down This Year?
January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments
Gail the Actuary posted an article by Chris Cook a former compliance and market supervision director of the International Petroleum Exchange. To say Mr. Cook has an inside view and solid understanding of the oil market and oil prices is an under appraisal. The answer to the headline question is – both. But for nearly [...]
Dec
23
A Partial Fix For the Fuel Cell Problem
December 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
Most folks don’t realize the depth of the economic problem that fuels cells pose for mass adoption. Often there are price quotes running in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s because the catalysts of choice are the noble metals platinum or palladium. These are very rare metals, more so than gold and [...]
Dec
9
The Ascendancy of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
December 9, 2011 | 20 Comments
Brian Wang put up two posts today [(1) + (2)] that link to what should seen as seminal events in the basic view of LENR (low energy nuclear reactions). Time passing as more hard credence evolves into research and the results, will show us which of the various physics are the activities of nature in [...]
Dec
7
Better Storage Than a Battery
December 7, 2011 | 3 Comments
A liquid nitrogen powered engine could provide an energy storage alternative to batteries and fuel cells. Such an engine is driven by the pressure created as liquid nitrogen (LN2) returns to its gas form and could provide a way of powering a vehicle with a longer range and faster refueling than a battery without producing [...]
Dec
6
A Better Way to Store Natural Gas
December 6, 2011 | 3 Comments
Natural gas needs to be very tightly compressed and cooling to very cold temperatures will help to get worthwhile volumes suitable for transport use. Those pressures and temperatures pose high levels of engineering and materials quality compared to a simple gasoline tank. But the payoff for a low cost low-pressure ambient natural gas storage solution [...]
Dec
5
Solar Power By Biomimetic Antenna
December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Silicon and printed dye photovoltaic may have a new competitor soon. At Washington University in St. Louis’s Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) one scientific team has just succeeded in making a crucial photosystem component – a light-harvesting antenna – from scratch. The new antenna is modeled on the chlorosome found in green bacteria. We may [...]
Nov
29
Efficient Utilitarian Truck Looks Good
November 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
The “Trailer 2011” show in Belgium features an aerodynamic trailer by Mercedes Benz that offers a reduction in wind resistance by up to 18%, with an accompanying decrease in fuel consumption by almost 5%. In the U.S alone that’s a big part of a million barrels a day of crude oil not used. And it’s [...]
Nov
18
Good Thermoelectric Devices Coming Soon
November 18, 2011 | 7 Comments
Dr. Ole Martin Løvvik of Oslo University’s Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology in Norway has been studying the thermoelectric effect at the nanoscale for several years. Dr. Løvvik’s project in semiconductor physics is to develop oxidic thermoelectrics for generation of electricity from concentrated solar heat, waste heat from fuel cells and engines at high [...]
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