Dec
10
Space Based Solar Energy Deal Gets The Regulatory OK
December 10, 2009 | 6 Comments
Late last week after a 6 ½ month wait, the California Public Utilities Commission approved Pacific Gas & Electric’s power purchase agreement with Solaren. If Solaren successfully deploys its space-based solar collectors, the deal would be the first of its kind and the first commercial space based energy production at commercial scale. PG&E has contracted […]
Dec
9
Sandia Might Have a Part of the Carbon Back to Fuel Process
December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
Using concentrated solar energy for power, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. Carbon monoxide could then be used to serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, […]
Dec
8
CO2 Kills With Every Breath Says US EPA
December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
If even there was a more stupid result the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said ‘greenhouse gases’, “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people” and that the pollutants, albeit mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Given free reign from the U.S. Supreme Court, […]
Dec
7
A New Enzyme to Break Free Hydrogen
December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
A team from the University of Oxford in the UK and CNRS in France has developed an optimized system that will produce hydrogen gas. Powered by light’s energy and using an hydrogenase and photosensitizer co-attached to a TiO2 nanoparticle the lab sized apparatus production is 6 times higher than a process based in bimolecular (and […]
Dec
4
Successful Blogging Can Be a Disaster
December 4, 2009 | 18 Comments
Many of you may have wondered why NewEnergyandFuel went down this week for 24 to 48 hours, depending on where your closest Internet nameserver is in relation to NewEnergyandFuel. Its simple, the old hosting firm threw the site overboard and served the Account Suspended page instead when successful blogging overtook their skills and patience. The […]
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