Energy

Strategies For Biofuel Production And Improvement In Developing Countries

A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their growth and hydrocarbon yield potential. Studies were conducted to impr ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 17 2009 - 12:03am

Jatropha curcas: potential biofuel plant for semi arid regions needs proper agrotechnogy

Jatropha curcas has now being extensively grown in India under the Department of Biotechnology supported micro mission projects with an object to identify, characterize and multiply high yielding strains and study their growth and productivity under differ ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2009 - 2:10pm

Biofuel for green house gas mitigation should be selected based on local enviornment and flora.

Biofuel have a great potential but turnig food into biofuel is not correct way instead work on the petroplants, local plants and search for non edible oil plants like Jatropha etc as source of biofuel and improve their agrotechnology of production extracti ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 8 2009 - 9:46am

Bioengineering of Crops for Biofuels and Bioenergy

1 Bioengineering of Crops for Biofuels and Bioenergy Ashwani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004. India. e-mail. msku4@hotmail.com Abstract Biomas ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 17 2009 - 9:17pm

Energy: How Much Will You Spend To Save 130 Deaths Per Year?

Framing alternative energy in terms of lives saved can be risky business.   People die... thousands from guns, tens of thousands from cars and a lot more than that from malpractice. In the 700,000 employees in the US energy sector, 130 can be saved by swit ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2009 - 10:38pm

Ready, Set... Fusion!

Next year begins one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history; the initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction and tame the energy source of the su ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2009 - 10:04am

Jatropha development is moving forward as Abundant Biofuels Corp. offers long term contracts and D1 Oils plc refocuses its business.

Jatropha development is moving forward as Abundant Biofuels Corp. offers long term contracts and D1 Oils plc refocuses its business. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2009 - 11:34am

Improving Biomass Use Efficiency For Semi-Arid Regions

Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water. They store this energy in the form of glucose or starch molecules, oleaginous, cellulose, an ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 22 2009 - 1:02am

Jatropha cultivation in Rajasthan: Problems and prospects.

Shri Shiv Charan ji Mathur H E Governor of Assam and former Chief Minister of Rajasthan    was an able administrator,   a great visionary and one who ruled heart and mind of the people by his progressive ideas and openmindedness.   He treated everyone with ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2009 - 11:35am

Modern Bioenergy And Biofuels Benign From Environmental Viewpoint

  Modern bioenergy technologies and biofuels are relatively benign from   environmental view point and produce very little pollution if burned correctly and completely.   The creation of new employment opportunities within the communi ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 5:25pm