Energy

Splitting Water To Make Renewable Hydrogen Energy Just Got Easier

Could the key to our hydrogen future be a black stain on rocks? Using sunlight to split water in a cheap, efficient way is the goal of true renewable energy that won't involve ghastly wind vanes or porkbarrelled government funding of ethanol.  The obs ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 2:20pm

Wave Power Inspired by Squid?

This is totally cool! Scotland's leading marine energy test centre has opened its doors to a new generation of developers to test prototype machines, one of which is aiming to harness wave energy using a design based on the humble squid....  SQUID, w ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - May 18 2011 - 5:54pm

Three Gorges Oops

We've been skeptical of the Three Gorges Dam project for a number of years.   It isn't that dams are a bad idea, they are a great idea, it's just the the ecologists who endorsed the thing invented the absolutely perfect outcomes and assumed ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2011 - 12:14pm

Natural Gas Takes Some Heat

A cold turkey approach to energy is a ridiculous idea endorsed only by the truly militant but it is clear we have to migrate from high-pollution solution fossil fuels while science advances on energy generation that is clean and cost-effective enough that ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2011 - 4:43pm

Metabolic engineering and next generation biofuel.

Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO2 into organic molecules. Cellular phenotype is a manifestation of gene expressio ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 30 2011 - 12:21am

Qi Low Power Wireless Charging Debuts At Shanghai Auto Show

Continued Momentum for Global Wireless Charging Standard  The Wireless Power Consortium ("WPC") today announced that leading Chinese automobile manufacturers Geely, Chery, Changan and Dongfeng exhibited cars featuring its universal wireless char ...

Article - Newswire - May 31 2011 - 9:32pm

Carbon Tax Scheme Perversely Penalizes Clean Energy

Politicians do not really understand science, they are in the policy business.  And environmental activists do not understand science, they are in the advocacy business.  Both claim to love science when it suits their agenda.  When they are together, as wi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 31 2011 - 10:38am

A Solar Variability Law? Accurately Predicting Solar Energy Output

Whether you agree or not, the funding machine for solar and wind energy is in motion and it is hard to stop- look at the debate over ending ethanol subsidies. One way to make an informed policy decision is to truly know just how much solar energy will be p ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2011 - 3:53pm

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development.

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 3 2011 - 7:38pm

Converting C3 plant (rice) into C4?

Way back in 1982 in USA  I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch  who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron microscope and most of his pictures find way in most of the text books. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 4 2011 - 2:05am