Energy

External Electric Field Brings Hydrogen Economy Closer To Reality

An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system. The team of researchers h ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm

The debate of food vs fuel

The debate of food vs fuel is an excuse for putting lame excuses for our failures to retain productivity level of the farmlands, irregular practices of growing crops in the areas where they should not be grown.i.e. growing rice in areas which is not its “n ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 3 2010 - 11:08pm

Ground work on cultivation of Jatropha reported earlier has to be basis of any future development

Any 600 million productrion of Jatropha would need involvement of all those who have worked for years in DBT projects and developed accessions and high yielding plants. (Kumar 2008) ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 6 2010 - 10:00am

Toward a Naturally Sweetened Energy Policy

Here is an idea for a new energy policy: teach people what energy is and where it comes from. Whether or not you think human activity is effecting global climate change, whether we should drill-baby-drill or hug a tree, a nature-based perspective of the c ...

Blog Post - Mark Berman - Mar 10 2010 - 3:46pm

Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need

Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need February 4th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment President Obama and members of his Biofuels Interagency Working Group are to be applauded for actions announced this week that will reinfor ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 7 2010 - 4:57am

Energy Policy Should Maximize Benefits of All Renewable Biomass

Energy Policy Should Maximize Benefits of All Renewable Biomass February 12th, 2010 The new rule announced by EPA last week implementing the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) takes a major step toward a clean energy future by including forest biomass ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 13 2010 - 1:00am

Ethanol From Orange Peels And Newspapers

Researchers have developed a way to produce ethanol from waste products such as orange peels and newspapers. The approach is 'greener' and less expensive than the current methods available to run vehicles on clean energy and can be applied to sev ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 12:47pm

Photosynthesis Breakthrough May Lead To New Energy Sources

Plants and algae, as well as cyanobacteria, use photosynthesis to produce oxygen and "fuels," the latter being oxidizable substances like carbohydrates and hydrogen. There are two pigment-protein complexes that orchestrate the primary reactions o ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2010 - 2:51pm

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 ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 25 2010 - 10:40am

Energy From Peas?

Tel Aviv University biologists say a solution to our search for alternative energy may come from an unexpected source ―  peas. Researchers isolating minute crystals of the PSI super complex from the pea plant suggests these crystals can be illuminated and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2010 - 12:25pm