Dec
28
Where The R&D Money Is At
December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Battelle with R&D Magazine has its annual Global R&D Funding Forecast out suggesting global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2%, to more than $1.4 trillion in 2012. Battelle/R&DMag has it that R&D funding growth will largely be driven by the Asian economies that will see an increase in spending of nearly [...]
Dec
12
The Energy Future
December 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
ExxonMobil has their 2012 Outlook out for anyone to see and its different from what the government agencies are saying by some pleasing measures and some measures that will disappoint some folks. The variance comes from ExxonMobil being in business where careers, investors and consumers have to live with the results. As the world’s largest [...]
Sep
23
A New Advocate For Alternative Fuels
September 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
In Washington, a coalition called FuelChoiceNow has opened for business. With gasoline and diesel priced near $4.00US and a record year in progress for the average fuel costs, fuel costs are giving the world’s largest transport fuel market a serious case of personal and business budget realignment and a national economic recession. FuelChoiceNow believes the [...]
May
18
Clean Green Chemistry
May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
The press may howl the politicians take stands and the consumers wonder but the chemistry needed for life isn’t going away. The chemical market from the raw material producer to the end user all have a need for standards, the way things are described and disclosed so decisions can be made. Chemical companies and manufacturers [...]
Mar
20
Free Scientific Papers – Limited Time
March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) has for the first time, drawn content from two ACS journals – JACS and Environmental Science & Technology – under the theme of “Harnessing Energy for a Sustainable World”. The ACS selected 11 papers concerning materials and methods for energy production and storage (e.g., fuel cells, batteries, bio-hydrocarbon fuels and [...]
Sep
18
How to Protect Your Big Idea
September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A new paper from North Carolina State University’s Dr. Stephen Schanz offers a “how-to” guide on intellectual property protection, laying out the options for budding entrepreneurs as they consider how to move forward. The question at any stage of building out one’s idea is how should a person protect those ideas? Schanz is offering a [...]
Sep
10
Energy Independence Is Real
September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
A raft of prominent people seems to want the masses to believe there is no hope of energy independence. Of late the Saudi’s Prince Turki Al Faisal checked in to the offer that the Western World and Saudi Arabia are inevitably tied together in the oil market. The comments follow those such as former CIA [...]
Mar
19
A Very Bright Guy With Some Sense
March 19, 2009 | 5 Comments
Here really bright people get noticed. Especially those that demonstrate they have some sense, you know like common sense. Dr. James Sweeney at Stanford comes to mind. Now we’ll add Professor Richard A. Muller at UC Berkeley. I haven’t met him as I have Sweeney, but Kerry Dolan wrote about Professor Muller in Forbes Magazine [...]
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