Jan

31

Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

Jan

23

Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

January 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

Jan

19

Political Insolence For the Entire World to See

January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

Today the U.S. President’s State Department issued its decision denying the Keystone XL Pipeline application. Your shocked, humbled and deeply embarrassed writer apologizes to the whole of Canada, in particular those who have risked and worked, invested and managed the development of their resources and willingness to work with us to benefit from them. The [...]

Jan

17

Rossi E-Cat Destined For Underwriters Laboratory

January 17, 2012 | 13 Comments

Andrea Rossi, the inventor and energy behind the E-Cat was interviewed by Gary Hendershot and Sterling Allan for the Smart Scarecrow Show last Saturday the 14th of January 2012.  The headline remark was Mr. Rossi has sent prototypes to the Underwriters Laboratories (UL).  As best can be determined, that remark is in the past tense. [...]

Jan

9

A Higher Form of Life to Produce Electricity

January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment

Case Western Reserve University scientists have taken step closer to the self-powered cyborg, by creating a living electricity producer. The past decade has seen ingenious devices described in the literature to accomplish the goal.  Methods for converting chemical or mechanical energy are either present in, or generated by living organisms for generating electricity, and are [...]

Jan

6

A Crop to Replace Corn Ethanol Development

January 6, 2012 | 4 Comments

This is one to take seriously.  A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in one of Roosevelt’s terms, Henry A. Wallace who introduced hybrid corn seed and started the green revolution we and billions of other people rely on for food today. Now a [...]

Dec

21

SRI International Develops a New Coal To Liquid Fuel Process

December 21, 2011 | 6 Comments

Make no mistake here; SRI International has the brainpower and skill set to come up with workable and commercial ideas that have scale in mind from the start.  Robert Wilson, Ph.D., director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International said in the press release, “The implications of this research are expansive, including enhancing US energy [...]

Dec

20

A New and Efficient Wood to Butanol Process

December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments

Professor Aadrian van Heiningen and Tom Granström with a team of scientists at Aalto University in Finland and associated with the University of Maine in the U.S. have developed a process to make fuel grade butanol and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly suitable as a transport fuel because it is not [...]

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