Apr
9
Lots More Oil Where It Already Came From
April 9, 2013 | 1 Comment
Technology using natural soil bacteria for enhanced oil recovery now is commercially available and poised to recover the crude oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells. Brian Clement, Ph.D. spoke in New Orleans yesterday April 8, with his report on a process termed microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) that is part of the 245th […]
Apr
8
Solazyme Makes News for Several Niche Bio Oil Markets
April 8, 2013 | 3 Comments
Walter Rakitsky, Ph.D gave a keynote talk at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) yesterday, April 7th. The presentation described technology that accelerates microalgae’s ability to produce many different types of renewable oils for fuels, chemicals, foods and personal-care products within days using standard industrial fermentation. This is not […]
Apr
5
Ready to Make Natural Gas
April 5, 2013 | 5 Comments
Methanogenic bacteria have been found in coal beds here in the U.S. and companies are working to start natural gas production. For now the natural gas prices are forcing adverse market conditions on the firms, but the chance that some liquefied natural gas for export may be allowed could well spark more action. San Diego […]
Apr
4
Extracting Large Quantities of Hydrogen From Plants
April 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant. The team believes their breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel source to the world. Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture […]
Apr
3
A Nuclear Reactor in Every Room
April 3, 2013 | 5 Comments
Lewis Larsen, a Chicago physicist associated with the Widom-Larsen Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) theory is exploring slow nuclear fusion reactions among elements that are not radioactive. Larsen has discovered harmless low-energy nuclear reactions may be taking place routinely inside of compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. LENR has NASA scientists alert now for a prospect […]
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