Nov
9
A New Way To Find Oil And Gas Is Proposed
November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the Institut de Ciencies del Mar, aka The Spanish Research Council have revealed a new model that explains what happens as the continents thin as well as helping to more accurately predict the location of hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. The scientists offer a new way […]
Nov
8
Catching CO2 At Low Cost
November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
The TU Darmstadt’s Institute for Energy Systems and Technology’s newly dedicated pilot plant will be utilized for investigating two new methods for CO2 capture that will allow nearly totally eliminating CO2 emissions and require virtually no additional energy input and entail only slight increases in operating costs. Known as carbon capture and storage or CCS […]
Nov
5
The Wind Turbine For Everyone
November 5, 2010 | 8 Comments
The Honeywell Wind Turbine needs only 33 feet of above ground clearance and just a claimed one half mile per hour wind to start up. If that proves out in the real world Canada’s WindTronics, Inc. would have a sure hit on its hands. The company says its turbine has “higher performance output and lower […]
Nov
4
Will Grass Biomass Be a Viable Fuel Source?
November 4, 2010 | 22 Comments
Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenergy grass crops in the Midwestern United States. It’s the best work yet and suggests some impressive potential. Federal regulations mandate that 79 billion liters of biofuels must be produced annually from non-corn biomass by 2022. The […]
Nov
3
A New Way to Store the Sun’s Thermal Energy
November 3, 2010 | 8 Comments
Jeffrey Grossman, the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT,Yosuke Kanai of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Varadharajan Srinivasan of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Steven Meier and Peter Vollhardt of the University of California, Berkeley are reporting they have mapped the […]
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