Jun
28
Can An Algae Save Coal Power Generation?
June 28, 2013 | 7 Comments
University of Delaware (UD) researcher Kathryn Coyne is growing algae in her lab at UD’s Lewes campus that could help cut power plant emissions and serve as a base ingredient for biofuel. The microscopic algae Heterosigma akashiwo grows rapidly on a gas mixture that has the same carbon dioxide and nitric oxide content as emissions […]
Jun
27
Progress for Photovoltaic Solar Power
June 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The two-junction solar cell has reached a new milestone with a new world record of 31.1% conversion efficiency at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). The previous record of 30.8% efficiency was held by Alta Devices. The new record may not last long. NREL Principal Scientist Sarah Kurtz, who leads the F-PACE project […]
Jun
26
New Engineered Bacteria Make a Biofuel Precursor
June 26, 2013 | 1 Comment
In a major effort at Harvard University scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School scientists have engineered new lines of bacteria that can tailor-make key precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline. The new bacteria lines report has been published […]
Jun
25
A New Way to Recycle CO2
June 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
Chemist Joel Rosenthal University of Delaware’s (UD) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide to the commodity precursor chemical carbon monoxide. A little background: in fuel combustion the carbon and hydrogen components of the fuel […]
Jun
24
Quantum Mechanics Observed in Photosynthesis
June 24, 2013 | 2 Comments
To date various research groups around the world have shown that a quantum mechanic phenomenon is connected to a highly efficient energy transport. The photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and some bacteria, have mastered this process. In less than a couple of trillionths of a second 95 percent of the sunlight energy they absorb is […]
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