Energy
- FACT comments on “Jatropha! A socio‐economic pitfall for Mozambique”by Justiça Ambiental (JA) & União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC)
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 6 2010 - 4:26pm
- Biofuels have different meaning to different people.
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There are 5 specific groups working on biofuel and all with different meanings and purposes and ends. First group is people like me who started working on biofuel when Professor Melvin Calvin found out that during second world war plants were used to obta ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 8 2010 - 4:56pm
- Oil Production Will Peak In 2014, Study Predicts
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Researchers from Kuwait University predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 — almost a decade earlier than some other predictions. The team explains that scientists have developed several models to forecast the point at which ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2010 - 1:15pm
- Increased Ethanol Production Only Enhances Global Warming
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A new study in BioScience suggests that boosting use of maize-derived ethanol will increase greenhouse gas emissions and worsen the effects of climate change as a result. The research focuses on how mandated increases in production of the biofuel in the Un ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2010 - 11:35am
- Energy self reliance, why make your own wind generators?
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The US average wind speed is 12.5 mph. If you double the wind speed you increase power potential by times 8. If you double the diameter of your blades increase power potential by times 4. Last check on current average market prices I'd put solar at ...
Blog Post - Tree Thunderchild - Mar 18 2010 - 10:27am
- "Prove that Calotropis is better option then Jatropha.
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To make the bio-diesel from Calotropis Procera. I have searched a lot on internet and journals on this plant. I want to know that this plant is better than the Jatropha for this purpose. I wnat your help on this because I have a very few days left and I ha ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 19 2010 - 6:46am
- Plasma TV Technology Could Produce Clean Energy
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The process that lights up big-screen plasma TV displays could also help produce ultra-clean fuels, according to research presented this week at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The research describes a small, low-tech, inexpens ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm
- "Loading-Unloading" Effect Could Make For Safer Nuclear Reactors
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In a paper appearing today in Science, Los Alamos researchers report that a newly discovered "loading-unloading" effect allows nanocrystalline materials to heal themselves after suffering radiation-induced damage. The discovery may eventually lea ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2010 - 3:46pm
- More Ethanol, Please: E20 Fuel Could Reduce Automobile Emissions
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E20 fuel, which blends 20 percent ethanol with gasoline, reduces the tail pipe emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, compared with traditional gasoline or E10 blends, according to a new study in the Journal of Automobile Engineering. In addition, ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2010 - 10:56am
- Forget Switchgrass – Microbes Could Be New Biofuel Source
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Arizona State University researchers have reengineered the genetics of cyanobacteria, producing mutant strains that continuously secrete fatty acids through their cell walls. The reprogramming has essentially turned the microbes into tiny biofuel productio ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm
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