Feb
19
The Most Abundant Fuel in the World
February 19, 2010 | 12 Comments
Email can consume a lot of time. But some gems pop up, like a simple question from an .edu address that must be from a youthful person with an earnest need to know. The question seems small, what is the most abundant fuel in the world? I’m having an Art Linkletter moment, “Kids ask the […]
Feb
18
A Better Lithium Ion Battery Technology
February 18, 2010 | 7 Comments
Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dunwei Wang’s paper about web-like nanonets developments has been published in Nano Letters. The development suggests a major breakthrough for lithium ion battery technology. The ‘nanonets’ are tiny scaffold-like structures that are built like a web. Wang’s nanonets are made with titanium disilicide, and coated with silicon particles that […]
Feb
17
A Light to Electricity Molecule
February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Professor Dawn Bonnell the director of the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania and her colleagues have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system uses an array of nano-sized molecules of gold that respond to electromagnetic waves by creating surface plasmons to induce and project […]
Feb
16
Can Ammonia aka NH3 Be a Fuel?
February 16, 2010 | 28 Comments
Last week Houston investment banker and peak oil prognosticator Matt Simmons popped a plan to use wind, the generated electricity and air to manufacture ammonia. Then just use it to fuel cars. The price to start up is “only” $25 billion plus a new generation of cars for consumers to buy. Is ammonia, NH3, remotely […]
Feb
15
Solar Powered Hydrogen Production
February 15, 2010 | 37 Comments
The need for free hydrogen in industry and fuels is huge and the potential when a low cost method arrives, staggering. Methane is nothing more than a carbon atom and 4 hydrogen atoms, so any production that comes up with hydrogen at low cost is going to be a breakthrough. Professor Thomas Nann and colleagues […]
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