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10
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered yet another way to harvest small amounts of electricity from motion and friction in the world around us by capturing the electrical charge produced when two different kinds of plastic materials rub against one another. It’s not the common ‘static’ electricity we’re all familiar with; the […]
Jul
9
A Status Update on Cold Fusion
July 9, 2012 | 10 Comments
Your humble writer has been watching for the news out of the International Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Symposium, ILENRS-12 held at The College of William and Mary Sadler Center early last week. At long last, after years of little available event news we’re getting some interesting bits out. The process of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions […]
Jul
6
Are the Tables Turned on OPEC?
July 6, 2012 | 8 Comments
We’re coming up on 40 years of OPEC trying to set the price of oil as high as they can manage. The oil market is finally at a turning point, non-OPEC production is up, demand is down, and international economics may have finally found a bright spot in ‘globalization’. This week the EU’s embargo on […]
Jul
5
A Fungus Breakthrough for Biofuels
July 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Darwin thought of much of the evolutionary process as “endless forms most beautiful” and pretty much left out fungus. Fungus development seems to be slow, but now we know the big breakthrough was at the end of the Carboniferous period about 290 million years ago. Wood producing plants fix a huge amount of carbon during […]
Jul
3
A Big Nuclear Breakthrough
July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dr. Stephen Liddle in the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham leads a team that seems to be first to create a stable version of a uranium ‘trophy molecule’, a compound that has eluded scientists for decades. The research paper has been published in the journal Science. The Nottingham chemistry team has shown […]
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