Apr
30
The New Lead Acid Battery
April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
Atraveda is providing the material for Glamorgan University’s research and development facility to test a “bi-polar” lead acid battery design. The news of the collaboration to produce the world’s first commercially viable bi-polar lead-acid battery was announced at the opening of the UK’s first Advanced Bi-polar Battery Development research facility. The UK is certainly in […]
Apr
29
The Good News in Natural Gas
April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
There is a lot of natural gas out there in the ground and stored away in methane hydrates. Today we’ll look into the land based new production skills that are releasing a lot of natural gas that used to be uneconomic as it is locked into rock that is so low in porosity that it […]
Apr
28
A Great New Way for Using Ethanol
April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ethanol as a fuel supplement (could be additive, but not accurate in practice) could be redeemed by the research and development done by D.R. Cohn, L Bromberg and the estimable J.B. Heywood at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rather than mandate as in the command from government to add 10% ethanol to every gallon of […]
Apr
27
Brutal Truth vs. Moral Salesmanship
April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
You’ve already voted for Congresspersons and the pig is over the pit now. The issues are numerous, related, unrelated and bewildering fraught with unknown costs and changes. It’s called ‘Cap-and-Trade,’ the Congress’s idea of solving global warming hysteria with an energy revolution. I can’t remember a bigger more diffused economic disaster show in memory. This […]
Apr
24
Bio Hacking the Way to Make Bio Gasoline
April 24, 2009 | 7 Comments
Christopher Voigt at the University of California is genetically ‘hacking’ into the brewers yeast of ethanol fame to modify the yeast so its output isn’t ethanol but a methyl halide. The methyl halide switches over to a bio gasoline with a simple catalytic reaction. This is not a simple problem. Voigt is targeting to use […]
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