Aug
10
A Sugar to Fuel Genetic Code is Found
August 10, 2010 | 10 Comments
Researchers at LS9 have discovered an alkane biosynthesis pathway, a metabolic pathway that produces alkanes in cyanobacteria for a direct, simple conversion from plant sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Alkanes are the major hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Using the bacteria E. coli, with the newly identified alkane operon genetics expressed, the bacteria […]
Aug
9
More Than Doubling the Power From a Solar Cell
August 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Stanford’s Nick Melosh, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, seems to have cracked the problem of getting the heat of sunlight with the photons working to produce electricity in a solar cell. That would not be just a photovoltaic; it would be infraredvoltaic plus photovoltaic. The efficiency gets past 55% and near 60% in […]
Aug
6
The Wind Power Storage Issue
August 6, 2010 | 4 Comments
Storing the energy from wind is obviously useful. But is it essential? Numerous studies cover the matter both asserting that storage can useful and asserting its not. The practical common result is the continental U.S. could increase wind energy production another ten times before the capacity would merit storage at scale. It’s just not that […]
Aug
5
Micro Turbines Headed for Hybrid Trucks
August 5, 2010 | 14 Comments
Capstone Turbine Corporation a leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems announced last week that it has initiated a demonstration project with a major U.S. manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. The demonstrator will utilize a Capstone 65kW microturbine as a clean, efficient range extender in a hybrid electric drive system. […]
Aug
4
Impossible But Done
August 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
This writer thinks with others that the “laws” of science and other notions have useful purposes when they work to our advantage. But the laws need challenged now and one must suppose forever. So when the impossible, flaunts the law, or whatever gets crashed, there’s cause for some celebration – not for the breaking, but […]
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