Energy

New Solar Cell Will Self-Repair Like Plants

In an ideal energy future, man-made solar cells would mimic much of the functionality of efficient plant life.   Currently solar cell technology is expensive and a maintenance headache but Purdue researchers are working a new type of solar cell that uses c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2011 - 12:59pm

Cosmic Embryo #2: Quitting Imported Oil Cold Turkey

Icon for Cosmic Embryo: Erupting star V838 Monocerotis ...

Article - Richard (Dick) Go... - Jul 6 2012 - 10:01am

Less Hype- Debunking Solar Energy Efficiency Measurements

Without question nanotechnology is a key component in our energy future.   In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology and promoting efficiency metrics which they say make the technol ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2011 - 1:14pm

Metabolic engineering and production of next generation bio fuels.

Metabolic engineering and production of next generation bio fuels. Ashwani Kumar, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Department of Botany, Univeristy of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004 India Email: akbiotechnology214@gmail.com Phone 0141 2654100. Mobile: 94161663610 A ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 21 2011 - 2:19am

BIOMASS AND BIOENERGY POTENTIAL OF SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN

Ashwani Kumar and Vijay Rani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center Department of Biotechnology Project Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302004. India. Phone: 00 91 141 654100 Fax: 00 91 141 565905 Email: msku4@hotmail. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 21 2011 - 10:15am

Biodiesel No More Harmful Than Regular Diesel- Hardly A Great Endorsement

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s, with Vice-President Al Gore declaring them the Holy Grail of fossil fuel replacement.    Unfortunately, no quality science agreed with that assessment yet they have been passed into law anyway by anti-science politi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2011 - 3:03pm

Top 20 Green Tech Idea Is...Granola?

You've heard of Granola, we all have.   But is it a green technology?   Yes and no.   It turns out the name is no longer trademarked so when Virginia Tech computer science faculty member Kirk Cameron and co-founder Joseph Turner decided to create  int ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 10:45am

Nuclear Safety Concerns Spur European Power Price Spikes

LONDON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Prices on Europe's largest power market spiked violently on Tuesday morning in response to 25% of Germany's nuclear capacity coming off line. The decision stems from safety concerns following the series of e ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 15 2011 - 12:22pm

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Truth: Locally Chernobyl

For decades we have been told that with the lessons learned from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, nuclear energy is safe. As the still unfolding mayhem at the Dai-Ichi plant in Fukushima, Japan, proves, nothing could be further from the truth. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 20 2011 - 8:16pm

Pearl GTL- World's Largest Gas-To-Liquids Plant

The world's largest plant to turn natural gas into cleaner-burning fuels and lubricants took a major step closer to production today when gas began flowing from a giant offshore field.  Pearl GTL will process around 3 billion barrels of oil equivalen ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 23 2011 - 8:48am