Mar
10
Cellulose Direct to Butanol Bug Revealed
March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced two of its scientists, Yongchao Li and Yunfeng Yang of ORNL collaborating with a team led by James Liao of the University of California at Los Angeles has for the first time produced isobutanol directly from cellulose. This achievement has been for years a prime national goal, as it […]
Mar
9
Updating the Rossi Focardi Cold Fusion Reactor
March 9, 2011 | 337 Comments
Andrea Rossi with Sergio Focardi consulting made news in January with a demonstration of the Rossi design of a nickel hydrogen fueled low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) reactor. The past month has been pretty quiet in much of the world where the noose of established science has no temperament for things not already successfully through […]
Mar
8
A New Low Cost and Low Temp Molten Salt Battery
March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
Sumitomo Electric Industries of Japan has developed a rechargeable molten-salt battery that promises to cost about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. Sumitomo Electric working with researchers at Kyoto University has developed a sodium material that melts at only 57º C, just 134º F. This is news. With about double the energy density of […]
Mar
7
A New Way to Get Power From a Nuclear Reactor
March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving from theory and the lab bench to the demonstration phase of a new gas circulation system using supercritical CO2 for driving turbines for power generation. The theory and supporting lab work suggest that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent – an improvement of […]
Mar
4
Algae Based Butanol Production Gains Working Processes
March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments
This week two new algae process paths made it out into view. One deals with algae directly producing butanol and the other is a growth process for algae that exploits an already concentrated algae growth medium with innovative processing. First and simplest, and likely most easily adoptable is from a team of chemical engineers at […]
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