Mar
23
Biofuel Is Big Business and Going to Get Bigger
March 23, 2012 | 5 Comments
2011 saw 30 billion gallons of biofuel produced worldwide – or 136.4 billion liters or 4 billion cubic feet. It’s a huge tank if it all was stored on one enormous site. Pike Research has looked into the commercial efforts of 10 independent “Big Oil” firms to see what’s going on. As you can imagine […]
Mar
22
A New Route to IEC Fusion Proposed
March 22, 2012 | 7 Comments
Nuclear fusion might be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields. A series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National Laboratories show the release of output energy that was, remarkably, many times greater than the energy fed into the simulation. Sandia researcher Steve Slutz, lead author of the paper published at […]
Mar
21
Why Gasoline is Expensive
March 21, 2012 | 5 Comments
A Guest Post by Paul Driessen Edits in Italics. When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank could soon slam you for $75-$90. This winter was warm. Our […]
Mar
20
Geothermal Drilling Could Get Easier
March 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
About 30 years ago Sandia Labs developed polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits for geothermal drilling. Today nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using the (PDC) bits. That’s technology gone astray, valuable – and still missing the original point. Now Sandia and the U.S. Navy recently brought the technology back full […]
Mar
19
Build a Super Capacitor with a DVD Burner
March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
The insightful and clever folks at UCLA have used a standard LightScribe DVD optical drive ($25+ and up at Newegg.com today) to produce a new type of capacitor electrodes that not only maintain high conductivity but also provide higher and more accessible surface area than conventional electrochemical capacitors (ECs) that use the typical activated carbon […]
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