Mar
19
The Bussard Fusion Story Update
March 19, 2010 | 6 Comments
For those watching fusion, particularly the fusion ideas that are based in human effort spent on getting fusion events over needing so much effort and money spent on the confinement matters, as seen in the tokamak designs, the EMC2 website update that M. Simon spotted and got circulating is fine news indeed. There are also […]
Mar
18
Lithium Sulfur Battery Progress
March 18, 2010 | 21 Comments
Lithium based batteries are a hot research field with lithium air and lithium sulfur compounds at the top of research listings. Stanford’s Yi Cui, builds the battery anode in the form of silicon nanowires, giving the silicon room to grow and shrink without damage. That neatly solves silicon’s swelling when charged with positively charged lithium […]
Mar
17
A Better Way to Store Hydrogen
March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments
Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new method for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee seems determined to play a key role in solving global dependency on fossil fuels. The young man is one winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT […]
Mar
16
The Algae That Makes Petroleum Story
March 16, 2010 | 16 Comments
Dr. Timothy Devarenne, AgriLife Research scientist with the Texas A&M University department of biochemistry and biophysics points out, “Oils from the green algae Botryococcus braunii can be readily detected in petroleum deposits and coal deposits suggesting that B. braunii has been a contributor to developing these deposits and may be the major contributor. This means […]
Mar
15
Exciting Water to Hydrogen Results
March 15, 2010 | 5 Comments
Emory University inorganic chemist Craig Hill, who led the laboratory effort said, “(The result) has really upped the standard from the other known homogeneous water oxidation catalysts. It’s like a home run compared to a base hit.” There’s some excitement here. The claim the Emory team with their collaborators at Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry […]