Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used a nanotechnology processing technology to achieve a 60 to 90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound. The team’s paper has been published in the journal Nano Letters. Half-Heusler compounds and the […]

University of Michigan scientists have discovered a molecular assistant they’ve dubbed ‘Spy’ that helps bacteria excel at producing proteins for medical and industrial purposes.  While the prime motivation is to work at proteins for medicine and industry, finding responses that improve production of desired traits is news – and it will provoke a search and […]

There is a lot of activity in Zero Point Energy around the world.  In the U.S. it remains an oddball or unscientific field.  In other places the science is taken much more seriously.  This writer abhors the notion of being hooked into ‘known’ science when a lifetime is already filled with the facts being updated, […]

Steven D. Phillips has led a team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with a claim from their study of making gasoline via the methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) route using syngas from a 2,000 dry metric ton per day (2,205 U.S. ton/day) biomass-fed facility for unit sale price of prices for gasoline at $1.95/gallon ($0.52/liter) and […]

A team led by Zeng Yu Wang of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma and Jonathan Mielenz, a co-author and member of the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has designed a transgenic version of switchgrass that produces about one-third more ethanol by fermentation than conventional switchgrass. […]

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