Oct
8
Maximum Solar Cell Efficiency With Frog Foam
October 8, 2010 | 14 Comments
A synthesized foam, inspired by the Tungara frog (Engystomops pustulosus), which creates long-lasting foam nests to protect its tadpoles, containing all enzymes necessary to complete synthesized photosynthesis, can convert 96% of all sunlight which falls on it into sugars. Dr David Wendell, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at the […]
Oct
7
Google Helps Geothermal In A Big Way
October 7, 2010 | 7 Comments
Google.org funded a grant to Southern Methodist University’s Geothermal Laboratory that suggests that the temperature of the Earth beneath the state of West Virginia is significantly higher than previously estimated and capable of supporting commercial baseload geothermal energy production. This is very significant news. A very large thanks to Google for getting money where is […]
Oct
6
Liquid Thorium Fuel Gets a Start
October 6, 2010 | 7 Comments
Brian Wang at NextBigFuture found the news of a press conference at the Japanese organization Keidanren, an industry group with big name members such as Toyota, Toshiba and Hitachi. The company IThEMS unveiled their plans to build the world’s first commercial Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor (Th-MSR) power generator. IThEMS is being started by Keishiro Fukushima, a […]
Oct
5
Get a Grip On Scale
October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
For most people, perhaps excluding mathematicians, having a realistic sense of scale is hard to do. Numbers with the thousand, million, billion and trillion tacked on makes it much easier to communicate without scrutinizing the commas and counting up the zeros. Its handy, but it leaves out the sense of – well, scale. Whether the […]
Oct
4
Getting That New Energy Economy
October 4, 2010 | 12 Comments
Lots of pundits politicians and special interests all want their idea to be the path for a new energy economy. Lest we forget, we consumers will pay for whatever idea makes the political cut to the top. If you are thinking the best will rise to the top – you haven’t been watching the U.S. […]
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