Sep
26
Will There Be Enough Uranium for Generating Electricity?
September 26, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Nuclear Energy Institute announced a September telephone survey in a press release suggesting almost two thirds of U.S. adults favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States. This latest survey found that Americans strongly favoring nuclear energy outnumber those strongly opposed by a two-to-one […]
Sep
25
An Almost Endless Fuel Supply
September 25, 2012 | 11 Comments
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater. Then they catalytically convert the CO2 and H2 into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. The NRL effort has successfully developed and demonstrated technologies for the recovery of the CO2 and […]
May
30
Another Kind of Hydropower From Rivers
May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
At Stanford University researchers have developed a “rechargeable battery” that uses freshwater and seawater to create electricity. Aided by nanotechnology, the battery employs the difference in salinity between fresh and saltwater to generate a current. A power station might be built wherever a river flows into the ocean. Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science […]
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