Energy

GE Ecomagination Makes Smart Grids Seem Way Cooler Than They Really Are

There's this little company you may have heard of called GE.   Yeah, it's the one Edison started and I don't know where you come down in the whole Westinghouse/Edison fight but one of those guys screwed Tesla and one did not, so I am incline ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 5 2009 - 1:20am

Hockey Sticks And Organic Solar Cells For The Masses

It's easy for Arizona residents to hope for widespread solar power usage- they don't have to think about the thousands of miles of new power lines on land that will be grabbed under eminent domain. And you'd think hockey stick analogies rega ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2009 - 2:54pm

Hydrogen Energy: Better Compression Or Just Make A Bigger Molecule?

Uncompressed hydrogen will require a tank the size of a bus to take your car 300 miles but compressed hydrogen can be... explosive... unless the materials for storage get a lot better. Engineers in the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:56pm

Closed Photo-Bioreactors Boost Algae As Energy Source

Now that people have finally realized ethanol is a government-run, unscientific boondoggle, efforts are under way to make legitimate biofuels efficient enough for mass usage. Microalgae are monocellular, plant-like organisms that use photosynthesis and con ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2009 - 10:03am

Let's Bring Combustion Out Of The 18th Century

A new paper outlines what it calls a simple-to-use technique which enables companies to optimize the performance of industrial boilers and reduce their main emissions. It's about time.    Obviously there aren't going to be any new super-efficient ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2009 - 12:40pm

Fast-Response Fuel Blending: A Potent Recipe For Cleaner, More Efficient Engines

Diesel and gasoline fuel sources both bring unique assets and liabilities to powering internal combustion engines. But what if an engine could be programmed to harvest the best properties of both fuel sources at once, on the fly, by blending the fuels with ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2009 - 3:41pm

Improving Biomass Use Efficiency For Semi-Arid Regions

Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water. They store this energy in the form of glucose or starch molecules, oleaginous, cellulose, and ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 16 2009 - 10:10am

Biofuel for green house gas mitigation should be selected based on local environment and flora

Biofuel have a great potential but turnig food into biofuel is not correct way instead work on the petroplants, local plants and search for non edible oil plants like Jatropha etc as source of biofuel and improve their agrotechnology of production extracti ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 17 2009 - 12:01am

Strategies For Biofuel Production And Improvement In Developing Countries

A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their growth and hydrocarbon yield potential. Studies were conducted to impr ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 17 2009 - 12:03am

Jatropha curcas: potential biofuel plant for semi arid regions needs proper agrotechnogy

Jatropha curcas has now being extensively grown in India under the Department of Biotechnology supported micro mission projects with an object to identify, characterize and multiply high yielding strains and study their growth and productivity under differ ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2009 - 2:10pm