Energy

Scottish Researchers Get It Backwards, Turn Whisky Into Biofuels

Researchers at Edinburgh Napier’s Biofuel Research Centre have done something unthinkable- they have used Scotch to fuel cars instead of violence-filled weekends. Well, not Scotch specifically, rather  whisky manufacturing waste from Glenkinchie Distillery ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2010 - 3:01pm

Rapeseed mustad as crop from bio-diesel.

It was heartening to see rapeseed mustard being widely cultivated on patches of lands in Giessen Hessen.. Large patches of land earlier lying wastelands near rly tracts between Giessen to Frankfurt were lined with rapeseed mustard crops. This crop is main ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 8:54am

Baldos II- Support Swedish Students By Getting 357 MPG In Your Car

Should you happen to be in Washington, D.C. in October and at House of Sweden, the Swedish Embassy, you will get a chance to see a fireball red colored car that delighted Europeans who like tiny red cars earlier this year. It's called the Baldos II an ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2010 - 4:03am

Personalized Energy Gets A 200X Boost

Personalized energy systems, where instead of huge nuclear plants (or worse, even larger windmills or solar farms) powering air conditioning for homes or gas stations fueling cars, individuals can produce power themselves, edged a little closer as scientis ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2010 - 11:24am

Can food crops provide renewable energy sources?

Using corn or soybean for getting ethanol or bio-diesel additive could be good option for some nations, developing cellulose resources could be another with genetic engineering, while Jatropha is in mission mode in developing world, there cannot be general ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 4 2010 - 9:16am

Scientists Mimic Chloroplasts- Meaning Solar Cells That Fix Themselves

It would seem that mimicking nature would be among the easiest things to do for science.  After all, it's right there, in front of us, happening for millions of years.   Take plants, for instance.   Every day they absorb sunlight and turn it into ener ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2010 - 1:23pm

Next Generation 'Intelligent' Batteries Get Some Optimization

Current battery design and implementation is not optimal, but it's cheap.  A new effort seeks to make conventional battery systems more standardized and increase interoperability of battery and charger parts, which creates energy waste, extra costs an ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 3:20pm

Organic Batteries?

To cure global warming we have to trade some acid rain- at least given current battery technology, which uses toxic heavy metals. Obviously, plants have a much better solution and we have written about it often- artificial photosynthesis- but despite natur ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2010 - 11:28am

World's First Directly Solar-Powered Air Conditioning Unit Unveiled In China

On September 16th the 2010 World Solar-Powered Air Conditioning Development Forum was held in Dezhou, a municipality of China's Shandong Province. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2010 - 6:01pm

Rural energy needs of India and role of women in developing alternative sources of energy: a case study.

Rural energy needs of India and role of women in developing alternative sources of energy: a case study. Annapurna Rathore, Santosh Sharma, and Ashwini Kumar New Generation Development and Globilization Foundation, 2-Kha-14, Sector-2, Jawaharnagar, Jaipur, ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 19 2010 - 9:36am