Energy

A Nanoscale Clue To Why Car Batteries Grow Old

Lithium-ion batteries are commonly regarded as promising for the cars of the future (at least until hydrogen fuel cells are ready for prime time) but environmentalists interested in electric or hybrid vehicles are concerned about the acid rain caused by ba ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2010 - 11:02am

Why Bio Diesel?

Many alternative Bio Diesel fuels have been shown to have better exhaust emissions than traditional Diesel fuel. Jatropha Bio diesel holds promise as fuel alternatives for diesel engine because:- Bio Diesel are renewable fuelDepletion of the Primary Fuels ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 21 2010 - 11:07pm

Its not biofuel vs food its deforestation and desertification vs afforestation and greening of wasteland.

The debate on biofuel vs. food is more of less like the suggestion of a person when we were taking plantion in a park area near our home some 25 years ago. We planted 400 trees almost at the distance of 2x2 meter in a small patch. Someone pointed out that ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 29 2010 - 11:20am

Making Green Energy More Reliable

The big knock on huge wind or solar farms in developed countries is whose back yard the new power lines will run through.   Off-shore wind farms or solar farms in remote deserts may be a solution to that but current methods of transmission are unsuitable- ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2010 - 11:10am

Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability And Using Fusion To Generate Electricity From Seawater

New X-ray imaging capability at Sandia's Z accelerator may help remove an obstacle in efforts to harness nuclear fusion to generate electrical power from sea water.   More accurate simulations could lead to 'break-even' fusion in the future. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2010 - 12:05pm

Bacteria: Turning Milk Into Cheese May Lead To Biofuels From Cellulose

Lactococcus lactis, the workhorse bacterium that helps turn milk into cheese, may also lead to understanding of how microbes turn the organic compound cellulose into biofuels, according to new research from Concordia University published in Microbial Cell ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2010 - 9:15pm

Nickel-Tin Nanowires May Mean New Micro-Batteries

The race is on to replace lithium-ion batteries and  Rice University research may put nickel-tin nanowires in the hunt. The vertical arrays of nickel-tin nanowires are encased in PMMA, the polymer best known as Plexiglas.  The Rice laboratory of Pulickel A ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2010 - 11:58am

Fermenting Galactose! Seaweed May Be A Viable Biofuel

Metabolic engineering may rescue our energy future. A new strain of yeast that is more efficient at fermenting galactose might make red seaweed a viable future biofuel. Producers of biofuels made from terrestrial biomass crops have had difficulty breaking ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2010 - 5:18pm

Cleaner Renewable Energy That Never Gets Discussed- Wood

In all of the excitement about 'renewable' energy that can replace fossil fuels, we look to the future- algae, seaweed, switchgrass, we have articles on practically every new idea- but forget to look to the past, like in wood. Unlike 50 years ago ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2010 - 11:12am

A Study Of Revenue Producing Opportunities For New York State Through Efficiency And Green Initiatives

  New York State would achieve significant cost savings, while also creating opportunities to generate revenue with state owned assets by shifting to Real Time Pricing. Furthermore, the state may act as an innovator by helping to mature developing technol ...

Article - Ed Chen - Dec 29 2010 - 10:36am