Jun
9
Thorium – Sometimes It’s Who Notices That Matters
June 9, 2009 | 8 Comments
Let it be said here, again, if you really want the news as clear as the press ever gets it – read the Wall Street Journal. For thorium fans a minor breakthrough took place as Keith Johnson wrote an Environmental Capital piece late on June 5th 2009. That’s of note because more people who have […]
Jun
8
Watching the Money
June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Global information provider New Energy Finance contracted by the UN’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says in “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009” that $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energycompanies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro. Even without a deep exposure of how the numbers and the criteria […]
Jun
5
A Much Better Light Bulb
June 5, 2009 | 6 Comments
Optics researchers at the University of Rochester led by Chunlei Guo can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers. This news after the Congress outlaws incandescent bulbs some years out. Nothing is so dubious as mandating markets and closing off innovation and creativity. But the rest of the world can rejoice, they can see better […]
Jun
4
Ready to Kill People – It’s Not the Food vs. Fuel Fight
June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
A local village chief of the Parakana people in the Amazon basin of Brazil said, “If the government don’t find a solution we will solve it ourselves. We know how to make poison arrows and we are ready to kill people.” One might think it’s about the food vs. fuel fight, but its not, like […]
Jun
3
A New Path For Biomass On to Fuels and Feedstocks
June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Researchers are trying to find a simple and affordable way to convert the sugars, including glucose and fructose, in plants into compounds that can replace petroleum feedstocks. If successful, such technology could use a chemical made from corn, potatoes, and even grass to substitute for ones derived from oil. Now scientists at the Pacific Northwest […]
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