Mar

28

Can Money Be Made From Landfill Cleanup?

March 28, 2018 | Leave a Comment

Sweden’s Linnaeus University’s doctoral candidate Yahya Jani can demonstrate decontamination of landfills and open dumpsites could prove profitable both financially and for the environment. Landfill cleanup profits are getting closer. Environmental pollution, health threats and scarcity of raw materials, water, food and energy are some of the greatest challenges our world is facing today. At […]

Apr

19

Study Says Fossil Fuels Can Be Gone In 10 Years

April 19, 2016 | 3 Comments

The Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex thinks the worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade. The study sets out to be investigating the issue of time in global and national energy transitions by asking: “What does the mainstream academic literature suggest about the […]

Nov

12

Metamaterials Harvest Microwaves for Electricity

November 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

Scientists at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have designed a power-harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of very best solar panels using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals. For now the device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging a cell phone battery or other […]

May

9

A New Process to Make Steel

May 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

Donald Sadoway, the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT found that a process called molten oxide electrolysis could use iron oxide from the lunar soil to make oxygen in abundance, with no special chemistry. He tested the process using lunar-like soil from Meteor Crater in Arizona – which contains iron oxide from […]

Jan

23

Nano Silicon Powder Produces Hydrogen Without Energy

January 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

Experiments by researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB) found using nano-sized particles of silicon to react with water produces hydrogen almost instantaneously. In a series of experiments, the scientists created spherical silicon particles about 10 nanometers in diameter. When combined with water, these particles reacted to form silicic acid (a nontoxic byproduct) and hydrogen […]

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