Jul
24
US Patent Office Starts Regulations From New Patent Law
July 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
The America Invents Act (2011, H,R. 1249), the first patent law reform in 60 years has started its rule making process. Surprised? There’s a new patent law in the U.S. and it did get done under the radar of much of the economy unlike other revolutions over the past few years. In typical Congressional style […]
Jul
23
Can UCLA Save Solar Panels?
July 23, 2012 | 2 Comments
In the face of a string of intensely demoralizing federally backed alternative energy projects with Solyndra taking over a half billion dollars alone – solar panels seem to lead the way into a dead end. Except that China’s solar industry is very much alive and competitive. The technology advances usually start in the U.S. But […]
Jul
20
The Vital Little Green Guar Bean
July 20, 2012 | 8 Comments
The guar bean grown in the northern India state of Rajasthan is now a key element in the chemical cocktail used to frack wells, the technology that has prompted the oil and gas boom sweeping across North America and is set to spur a worldwide boost in oil and gas recovery. The key product is […]
Jul
19
Butanol Gets a Commercial Start
July 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, the joint venture research effort of British Petroleum and DuPont has set up an “Early Adopters Group” (EAG). Four more ethanol producers have joined the EAG bringing the total number of ethanol plants that have indicated interest in the company’s biobutanol technology to seven. Butamax CEO Paul Beckwith said in a […]
Jul
18
Engineering Magnetic Algae
July 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
Last year researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) took a gene that is known to form magnetic nanoparticles in magnetotactic bacteria and expressed it in green algae, where a permanent magnet can be used to separate the transformed algae from a solution. That tasks facing algae production for fuels are: keeping algal production over […]
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