Jan
31
Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough
January 31, 2012 | 5 Comments
At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the […]
Jan
30
A Reduced Energy Way To Distill Alcohol
January 30, 2012 | 12 Comments
University of Manchester (UM) academics won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 demonstrating graphene’s remarkable properties. Now Professor Sir Andre Geim’s team in a report published in Science shows that graphene-based membranes are impermeable to all gases and liquids as vacuum-tight. Except – The new finding gives graphene’s potential a most surprising dimension – […]
Jan
27
A Government Divided Against Itself Is a Mess
January 27, 2012 | 5 Comments
World Nuclear News is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is to help push forward the manufacture of small modular nuclear reactors. This contrasts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) standing record of never approving a new reactor design. The December 2011 “approval” by the NRC of the Westinghouse AP1000 is not a […]
Jan
26
Canadian Tech May Give Geothermal New Prospects
January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
For seven years Ontario’s inventor Ian Marnoch has been developing a new kind of “heat engine” that he says can generate electricity more economically from lower-grade heat. While that heat could come from anywhere: the ground, the sun, or an industrial waste process, geothermal needs a much better temperature spread to achieve wide ranging use. […]
Jan
25
Better LENR News From Greece
January 25, 2012 | 13 Comments
The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named “Hyperion”. PDGT had for a time an opportunity to learn what Rossi has accomplished and since is proposing […]
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