Energy

The Second Order Damage Of Using Corn For Biofuels

If you were following actual science during the alternative energy debate of the 1990s and early 2000s, you were probably concerned about the irrational zeal of activists and politicians like Al Gore who wanted to embrace anything that meant fewer fossil f ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2009 - 5:00pm

Yellow Diesel- Biofuel From Rapeseed Without The Waste

A company called Yellow Diesel B.V. says they have succeeded in producing biodiesel in a continuous fixed-bed micro plant based on heterogeneous catalysis, which provides pure biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food grade glycerol with much lower waste streams.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2009 - 10:35am

JATROPHA CURCAS: A POTENTIAL PLANT FOR BIO-FUEL

JATROPHA CURCAS: A POTENTIAL PLANT FOR BIO-FUEL Shikha Roy and Ashwini Kumar Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004 Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Email. msku31@yahoo.com ABSTRACT ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 11 2009 - 10:59am

STUDIES ON LATICIFER DEVELOPMENT IN CALOTROPIS PROCERA AN IMPORTANT PLANT

STUDIES ON LATICIFER DEVELOPMENT IN CALOTROPIS PROCERA AN IMPORTANT PLANT YIELDING HYDROCARBON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS GROWTH POTENTIAL Ashwini Kumar and Neetu Vijay Bio-Technology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004, India. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 11 2009 - 11:02am

How To Cut UK's Carbon Emissions- First Report Yesterday

Yesterday came suddenly as the Beatles sang.  The Climate Change Act requires the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to report annually to the Parliament on emissions reductions relative to the UK’s carbon budgets. The first report of the commttee was publ ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 13 2009 - 9:45am

Ion Tiger Hydrogen-Powered Unmanned Air Vehicle Stays Up Almost 24 Hours

The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger has set an unofficial record for flight endurance by a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle, staying out for 23 hours and 17 minutes. The test flight took place on October 9th through 10th at Aberde ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2009 - 11:47am

EFFECT OF LOCATION ON THE GROWTH AND HYDROCARBON

EFFECT OF LOCATION ON THE GROWTH AND HYDROCARBON YIELD OF CALOTROPIS PROCERA: A CASE STUDY Ashwani Kumar, V.P.S. Shekhawat, Anupma Singh Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur-302 004, India. Energy Plantation Demonstration ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 15 2009 - 1:51am

Production And Improvement Of Hydrocarbons In Laticifer Plants

Biomass currently supplies about a third of the developing countries’ energy varying from about 90% in countries like Uganda, Rawanda and Tanzania, to 45 percent in India, 30 percent in China and Brazil and 10-15 percent in Mexico and South Africa. The cru ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 14 2010 - 12:25am

STUDIES ON BIOMASS UTILIZATION IN A RURAL INDIA

STUDIES ON BIOMASS UTILIZATION IN A RURAL INDIA AND ITS IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT WITH SUGGESTION FOR POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES Ashwini Kumar and Santosh Sharma Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004 Energy Pla ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 16 2009 - 9:48am

Bioenergy Perspectives In Developing Countries

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 ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 17 2009 - 5:36pm