May
17
First Shot Fired In the Algae War
May 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a pair of bills recognizing so-called “algaculture” following passage in the Arizona state legislature that will see the Grand Canyon State encourage and support the algae industry. Arizona is the second American state, after Ohio, to classify the algae industry as agriculture. It’s a shot best heard by state [...]
May
14
Cheaper Hydrogen Gas With a New Electro Catalyst
May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new lower cost electro catalyst that addresses the cost problems by generating hydrogen gas from water cleanly and with much more affordable materials. The novel form of catalytic nickel-molybdenum-nitride is described in a paper published online May 8, 2012 in the [...]
May
9
Get Ready For Dual Fuel Vehicles
May 9, 2012 | 7 Comments
Not flex fuel – dual fuel. Flex fuel is a system that can use similar fuels in the same system such as pure gasoline to 85% ethanol. Dual fuel will use two differ fuels that will feed two systems. Sounds expensive, but natural gas at such low prices is driving a market. Natural gas prices [...]
May
8
Chevron is about to put the first deepwater drillship designed with the capacity to perform ‘dual gradient drilling’ to work. The ship is a Samsung 12000 design capable of operating in 12,000 ft (3,658 m) water depth and is equipped for 40,000 ft (12,192 m) drilling depth. Able to work in 2 1/3rd miles deep [...]
May
7
Sweet Sorghum Made Into Bio Diesel
May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. has had its sweet sorghum hybrids successfully processed into Amyris ‘Biofene’, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. Farnesene is a 15-carbon isoprenoid hydrocarbon molecule that works as the basis for a wide range of products as varied from specialty chemical applications to transportation fuels such as diesel. When used [...]
May
3
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu contributed a statement to an announced breakthrough in research into tapping the vast fuel resource of methane hydrates that could eventually bolster already massive U.S. natural gas reserves. As Al Fin pointed out yesterday natural gas is priced to a barrel of oil equivalent at about $10-$11 [...]
Apr
9
Ford Makes a Case for Ethanol and Methanol Blends
April 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
A team of researchers from Ford Motor Company are asserting in a paper published in the journal Fuel that “substantial societal benefits” would arrive for consumers by using higher volume blends of ethanol to leverage the alcohol’s inherent high octane rating to produce ethanol-gasoline blends with higher octane numbers. Octane numbers measure in scale the [...]
Apr
5
A Major Algae Genome Sequence Complete
April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
A Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) team has assembled the draft genome of Nannochloropis gaditana, a marine algae that may be capable of producing the lipid yields necessary for a viable fuel source. The overriding goal is to discover the best algae species for biodiesel production. Researchers understand they must come up with a way to [...]
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