Apr
15
The Boron-11 Hydrogen Fueled Fusion Looks Better Than Thought
April 15, 2011 | 4 Comments
A research team at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) on the Duke University campus found a Boron-11 and Hydrogen collision yields two high-energy alphas instead of the previously thought one. This news will increase the amount of energy that would be recovered should a fusion reactor develop to exploit the energy release. Duke nuclear […]
Apr
14
Inside Info on Hydraulic Oil and Gas Well Fracturing
April 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
The inestimable and influential Jane Van Ryan of the American Petroleum Institute where a running blog is kept with no less than seven authors offered up Monday a third party site called “FracFocus” run by The Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission with the information most everyone but an […]
Apr
13
The Newest Cold Fusion Breaks Out
April 13, 2011 | 5 Comments
Andrea Rossi might hold the world Internet energy followers in thrall, and justifiably so, out there might be a challenge to the lead for “cold fusion” or LENR (low energy cold fusion). From out of the Ukraine in Eastern Europe comes Professor Boris Bolotov and his engineer Waldemar Mordkovitch with a very different approach to […]
Apr
12
A New Way To Extract Oil From Bitumen and Bio Matter
April 12, 2011 | 1 Comment
GreenCentre Canada, a green chemistry incubator located at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario has spun out a new company, called Switchable Solutions. Switchable Solutions is trying to commercialize a new type of industrial solvent invented by the University’s researchers. This is not your usual chemistry solvent. Ready? The new chemical mixes with oil in one […]
Apr
11
Rossi Cold Fusion Update With a Confirmation
April 11, 2011 | 19 Comments
Last week saw another flurry of attention about the Rossi Focardi Cold Fusion apparatus with a new demonstration in Italy. This time the eminent observers came from Sweden’s Skeptics Society (This link is to the English translated page and is a worthwhile read). First, this demonstration was much more forthcoming than the one back in […]