Jul
31
A New Way To Fracture Oil and Gas Wells
July 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
GASFRAC of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has developed an innovative closed stimulation process and injection method, utilizing gelled LPG rather than water based conventional formation fracturing fluids. The firm has developed a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or propane based gel that is as natural to a well as soil is to the earth. It’s dissolves into […]
Jul
30
The Changed US Patent Law – America Invents Act
July 30, 2012 | 2 Comments
The following is a Guest Post by David J French, an Ottawa patent attorney with 35 years experience practicing before the Canadian and United States Patent Offices. I have written this posting for NewEnergyandFuel in response to Mr. Westenhaus’ post July 24th entitled, US Patent Office Starts Regulations From New Patent Law. Here is my […]
Jul
27
Since the transistor replaced the vacuum tube about sixty years ago an ever-growing avalanche of electronics has enriched lives. While the thought about one’s power blocks and power supplies doesn’t seem like much in a home, everyone plus the support in businesses, governments and the data centers of the internet and cloud sum up to […]
Jul
26
Here Come Virtual Power Plants
July 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Researchers from the University of Southampton have devised a novel method for forming “virtual power plants” – from the small and distributed energy resources (DERs), like wind farms, solar panels, small hydro and others that have begun to appear in greater numbers in the electricity supply network or the “Grid”. To make sure energy demand […]
Jul
25
Mineral Prospecting Goes Very High Tech
July 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Prof. Lev Eppelbaum of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences with the late Prof. Boris Khesin of Ben Gurion University have developed a new method for processing and analyzing the data of complex environments such as the complex environment of mountain ranges. Much of the expectations of energy and fuel production, use […]
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