Energy
- Metabolic engineering and next generation biofuel.
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Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO2 into organic molecules. Cellular phenotype is a manifestation of gene expressio ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 30 2011 - 12:21am
- Qi Low Power Wireless Charging Debuts At Shanghai Auto Show
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Continued Momentum for Global Wireless Charging Standard The Wireless Power Consortium ("WPC") today announced that leading Chinese automobile manufacturers Geely, Chery, Changan and Dongfeng exhibited cars featuring its universal wireless char ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - May 31 2011 - 9:32pm
- Carbon Tax Scheme Perversely Penalizes Clean Energy
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Politicians do not really understand science, they are in the policy business. And environmental activists do not understand science, they are in the advocacy business. Both claim to love science when it suits their agenda. When they are together, as wi ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 31 2011 - 10:38am
- A Solar Variability Law? Accurately Predicting Solar Energy Output
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Whether you agree or not, the funding machine for solar and wind energy is in motion and it is hard to stop- look at the debate over ending ethanol subsidies. One way to make an informed policy decision is to truly know just how much solar energy will be p ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2011 - 3:53pm
- Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development.
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Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 3 2011 - 7:38pm
- Converting C3 plant (rice) into C4?
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Way back in 1982 in USA I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron microscope and most of his pictures find way in most of the text books. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 4 2011 - 2:05am
- Isobutene Better Than Hydrogen For Alternative Fuel Solutions?
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With an oil issue that is pinching us on two fronts, cost and pollution, alternative energy research is going fuel speed ahead, including on solutions that have tried and failed in the past, like ethanol. But ethanol was not flawed as a concept, it was jus ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2011 - 10:27am
- Nifty: Heat-Regulating Material Stores Or Releases Heat Based On Temperature
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A new non-deformed energy storage phase change material (PCM) can retain and release heat according to specific temperature requirements- a breakthrough that might make a significant difference to the cost of heating and cooling buildings. If, for example, ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2011 - 6:20pm
- A Case For BioHydrogen
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Our energy dilemma ...
Article - Sean Gibbons - Aug 12 2011 - 1:42am
- Improving The Yield Of Switchgrass For Biofuels
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Researchers have developed an inexpensive way to grade the ethanol potential of perennial grasses at the biorefinery's loading dock- the first use of near-infrared sensing (NIRS) to measure 20 components in switchgrass biomass that determine its pot ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2011 - 10:13am
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