Energy

Recycling Hydrogen-Containing Fuel Materials May Make Hydrogen Cars Ready For Prime Time

A new method for 'recycling' hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door to economically viable hydrogen-based vehicles, according to research in an article appearing today in Angewandte Chemie. Hydrogen has long been considered an ide ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2009 - 6:00pm

Making More Efficient Microbial Fuel Cells

Bacteria that generate significant amounts of electricity could be used in microbial fuel cells to provide power in remote environments or to convert waste to electricity. Professor Derek Lovley from the University of Massachusetts isolated bacteria with l ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2009 - 3:10pm

High yielding accessions of JATROPHA CURCAS: a bio-diesel plant

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 3 2009 - 4:37am

JATROPHA CURCAS: Studies on factors improving production.

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 3 2009 - 4:39am

Salicornia bigelovii a Seed Oil halophyte can provide biofuel in saline irrigation and coastal areas

Saline water occupies 71% of the Earth area. It is thought that even a quarter of the whole pedosphere is affected by salts (Glenn and O’Leary, 1985), amounting to 950 x 10 6 ha (Flowers and Yeo, 1995), while 23 % of the 1.5 x 10 9 ha cultivated land is c ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 3 2009 - 4:49am

Cinnamomum verum Presl (syn C.zeylanicum Bi) a wonder tree bark for health

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 3 2009 - 6:34am

Security And Science: Nuclear Proliferation

One of the larger topics concerning international security and science is the nuclear proliferation among states and potentially non-state actors. The genie has been let of the bottle so to speak. For this entry I'll discuss two forms of proliferation ...

Article - Sina Kashefipour - Sep 7 2009 - 1:16pm

Asparagus adscendens Foxb.(Liliaceae)White tuberous roots have aphrodiasic functions.

Asparagus adscendens   Foxb.(Liliaceae) W hite tuberous roots have aphrodiasic functions. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 4 2009 - 9:02pm

Cassia sena Linn of Fabaceae (Caesalpiniaceae) is used in Unani system

  Cassia sena Linn   (C. senna Linn. var. senna syn. C. acutifolia   Delile; C.     angustifolia   Vahl; C. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 4 2009 - 9:05pm

Biomass which covers currently up to 15% of the world energy demand is going to stay for health and environment

It is estimated that biomass covers currently up to 15% of the world energy demand, almost 1/3 of all energy consumption in the Less-Developed Countries. This rate was over the last years rather constant, with increasing overall demand bioenergy consumpti ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 5 2009 - 5:13am