Jan
10
IBM Says It Now Has a Working Lithium Air Battery
January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments
Physicist Winfried Wilcke working at IBM’s Almaden laboratories, based in San Jose, California in a report by Duncan Graham-Rowe in NewScientist allows that IBM’s Battery 500 project to find an air battery solution for electric vehicles (EVs), has found a starting solution. The assertion now is IBM believes it has solved a fundamental problem that […]
Jan
9
A Higher Form of Life to Produce Electricity
January 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
Case Western Reserve University scientists have taken step closer to the self-powered cyborg, by creating a living electricity producer. The past decade has seen ingenious devices described in the literature to accomplish the goal. Methods for converting chemical or mechanical energy are either present in, or generated by living organisms for generating electricity, and are […]
Jan
6
A Crop to Replace Corn Ethanol Development
January 6, 2012 | 4 Comments
This is one to take seriously. A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in one of Roosevelt’s terms, Henry A. Wallace who introduced hybrid corn seed and started the green revolution we and billions of other people rely on for food today. Now a […]
Jan
5
Bamboo May Be the New Renewable Forest Fuel
January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
In the developed world where a flip of a switch or twist of a knob starts food heating the idea of gathering dung, wood or making charcoal for food preparation is a nearly horrifying thought. But for billions of humans, that procedure is a daily routine. It isn’t possible for people to join in the […]
Jan
4
A Look At 2012s Big Hopes – Fusion
January 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
The third leading technology for 2012 would be fusion. While commercial units are not in the offing for the year there is a good prospect that Eric Lerner’s Focus Fusion theory could show a practical method of the achievement. So far the team at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics has tracked right up the theory proving the […]