Aug
3
Electricity Prices Should Go Higher
August 3, 2011 | 4 Comments
ICF International a major consulting firm has let slip two news reports out of their research that should cause consumers to perk up and get on with conservation, energy saving and cost cutting measures. In the broad sense the two reports are showing a shortfall in generating capacity coming over the rest of the decade. […]
Aug
2
Dye Based Photovoltaic Cells Could Get an Big Upgrade
August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), the ones in mind when printed solar cells or ‘roll to roll’ cell production is discussed, have an upgrade in the works at the University of Minnesota. Bin Liu and Eray S. Aydil have engineered alternating layers of nanometer and micrometer particles that send light ricocheting through layers of microscopic spheres, […]
Aug
1
Better Oil Sands Extraction
August 1, 2011 | 4 Comments
Both Al Fin and Brian Wang have featured N-Solv, a Canadian process development of extracting oil out of the Athabasca Oil Sands bitumen deposited in huge amounts in northwest Canada. While environmentalists will never be satisfied, for those with a reasoned view, the N-Solv process is going to raise environmental confidence, improve the economics and […]
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