Jun

8

Watching the Money

June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Global information provider New Energy Finance contracted by the UN’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says in “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009” that $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energycompanies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro. Even without a deep exposure of how the numbers and the criteria […]

Apr

29

The Good News in Natural Gas

April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments

There is a lot of natural gas out there in the ground and stored away in methane hydrates. Today we’ll look into the land based new production skills that are releasing a lot of natural gas that used to be uneconomic as it is locked into rock that is so low in porosity that it […]

Apr

27

Brutal Truth vs. Moral Salesmanship

April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

You’ve already voted for Congresspersons and the pig is over the pit now. The issues are numerous, related, unrelated and bewildering fraught with unknown costs and changes. It’s called ‘Cap-and-Trade,’ the Congress’s idea of solving global warming hysteria with an energy revolution. I can’t remember a bigger more diffused economic disaster show in memory. This […]

Apr

20

CO2 to Methanol Fuel in One Process

April 20, 2009 | 20 Comments

Yugen Zhang, Ph.D., team leader at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore announced through a paper in the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, where it was designated a “Hot Paper.” that the team activated carbon dioxide in a mild and non-toxic process to produce methanol, by using organocatalysts. The journal […]

Apr

1

Boosting Bugs with Electricity to Make Natural Gas From C02

April 1, 2009 | 7 Comments

Bruce E. Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State University and his team discovered a process that dramatically improves methane, the main part of natural gas production from microbes by adding a slight electrical current. The paper published this week in Environmental Science and Technology discussed an optimal result of capturing the current […]

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