Mar
17
A Great Idea for Using Carbon Nanotubes
March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Lots of researchers are making, by ‘growing,’ carbon nanotubes, so last week when researchers from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, announced finding that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators, one gets an attention seizure. The research appeared online […]
Mar
16
A Fast Charge Discharge Breakthrough
March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
MIT researchers led by Gerbrand Ceder, the Richard P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, have developed a lithium iron phosphate electrode material that achieves ultra-high discharge rates comparable to those of “supercapacitors,” while maintaining the high energy density characteristic of lithium-ion batteries. Stop right there, by no means is the technology at the […]
Mar
13
More Sunlight to Fuel Technology Progress
March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
One goal of science is to develop an artificial version of photosynthesis to produce chemicals that would be fuels, hopefully for many a CO2 and water to a hydrocarbon or alcohol. The Sandia Lab, MIT, Penn State and now Feng Jiao and Heinz Frei, chemists with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Physical Biosciences Division who are […]
Mar
12
Get Ready for $6 Gas with an E85 Ethanol Conversion or Build a Hotrod!
March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
One day, sooner or later oil prices will drive gasoline to very high prices. That plus the imminent Obama/Democrat campaign to tax carbon will have another cost added into the price and many states plus the Congress are actively shopping various gas tax ideas. All would become an economic government made disaster to add more […]
Mar
11
A New Material for Ultracapacitors
March 11, 2009 | 18 Comments
The popular and news making EEStor has a competitor coming. EEStor, now famed for their secrecy about what goes in their capacitor, leaves lots of room for speculation. Of note is they have gained more credibility over the years and seem closer to delivering product. The ultracapacitor field is based on simple, or as simple […]
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