Energy

Less Hype- Debunking Solar Energy Efficiency Measurements

Without question nanotechnology is a key component in our energy future.   In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology and promoting efficiency metrics which they say make the technol ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2011 - 1:14pm

Metabolic engineering and production of next generation bio fuels.

Metabolic engineering and production of next generation bio fuels. Ashwani Kumar, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Department of Botany, Univeristy of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004 India Email: akbiotechnology214@gmail.com Phone 0141 2654100. Mobile: 94161663610 A ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 21 2011 - 2:19am

BIOMASS AND BIOENERGY POTENTIAL OF SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN

Ashwani Kumar and Vijay Rani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center Department of Biotechnology Project Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302004. India. Phone: 00 91 141 654100 Fax: 00 91 141 565905 Email: msku4@hotmail. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 21 2011 - 10:15am

Biodiesel No More Harmful Than Regular Diesel- Hardly A Great Endorsement

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s, with Vice-President Al Gore declaring them the Holy Grail of fossil fuel replacement.    Unfortunately, no quality science agreed with that assessment yet they have been passed into law anyway by anti-science politi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2011 - 3:03pm

Top 20 Green Tech Idea Is...Granola?

You've heard of Granola, we all have.   But is it a green technology?   Yes and no.   It turns out the name is no longer trademarked so when Virginia Tech computer science faculty member Kirk Cameron and co-founder Joseph Turner decided to create  int ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 10:45am

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Truth: Locally Chernobyl

For decades we have been told that with the lessons learned from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, nuclear energy is safe. As the still unfolding mayhem at the Dai-Ichi plant in Fukushima, Japan, proves, nothing could be further from the truth. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 20 2011 - 8:16pm

Green Energy- Back To A 13th Century Future

Green energy technologies like wind, solar and biomass presently constitute only 3.6% of fuel used to generate electricity in the U.S.   Energy expert Vaclav Smil calculates that achieving Al Gore's renewable energy goal in a decade would incur buildi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2011 - 11:32am

How can you produce bio-diesel in your country?.

Several times this question has been raised: How can we produce bio-diesel? Which plants can provide bio-diesel? What is bio-diesel? Some of the quick answers are: 1. What is biomass which you want to use to produce bio-diesel: Generally there are three ca ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 16 2011 - 11:32pm

Fukushima: Could A Similar Disaster Strike Closer To Your Home?

If you're not one of the 172,000 Japanese people living within a dozen miles of the Fukushima Daiichi plant who have been advised (read: forced) to leave, you are breathing a sigh of relief while you hope things turn out okay. But a new analysis carri ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2011 - 2:56pm

What Oil Prices Say

Oil has been the strategic asset since it was discovered.  The price of oil reflects everything from the underlying value of the US dollar, to the general level of industrial economic activity and development at any given time in aggregate for the world. ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - May 9 2011 - 10:11am