Fruit of an Old Idea

April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments

In 1991, an idea to just use a sensitive dye as the reactive agent in solar cells was offered by Michael Grätzel and Brian O’Regan at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. A cell using dye sensitized materials are thought to be much cheaper than silicon chip designs. The idea has been 17 years in […]

Al Fin posted his discovery of one of the finest explanations of the current state of the art in understanding and explaining the carbon cycle here on earth. An undated and unaccredited reference piece, prepared for NASA is one of many References that NASA has on its site. For us, the thorough but short explanation […]

Last week we looked at jatropha and saw a map that shows “what biomass crops grow where” and noted that jatropha and algae were both missing. The email has seen some questions about not just missing crops, but wondering where the crops that might become fuels could be located. That brings us to the maps […]

Wednesday saw Mariam Sticklen, Michigan State University Professor of Crop and Soil Science, present her work to the 235th national American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans. The presentation, titled “Plant Genetic Engineering for Biofuel Production: Towards Affordable Cellulosic Ethanol” it will appear in the June issue of Nature Review Genetics. All the sit up […]

Maybe so. My Dream Fuel LLC in LaBelle Florida is well on its way to getting its share. My Dream Fuel is running a nursery in Hendry County Florida that has about 1 million Jatropha seedlings that will deliver this spring. At about 600 Jatropha trees per acre yielding 10 times the fuel per acre […]

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