Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comScientists have been trying for a while now to recreate the process of photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to spark chemical reactions.
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Chemicals and Biofuel from Wood Biomass
• ScienceDailyA method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass.
Uranium Mining Debate in Virginia Takes a Step
• New York TimesThe report’s release marks the start of what is certain to be impassioned debate over whether to lift a nearly three-decade moratorium and permit landowners in southern Virginia to extract ore from a vast underground deposit, as they first sought to
A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark
• Martin Green via TechnologyReview.comThe brewing solar trade war between the United States and China sullies what should be a triumphant moment in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry: the arrival of affordable solar electricity.
Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?
• oilprice.comThe last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking”) industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone was worth an estimated $76 billion in 2010 and is projected to grow to $231 billion in 203
A Brighter Way to Make Solar Cells
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comA manufacturing method that uses light instead of heat wastes less energy and makes the cells more efficient.
The Death of Range Fuels Shouldn't Doom All Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThis month, Range Fuels, one of the first companies in a wave of startups that promised cheap biofuels made from sources such as wood chips rather than corn, shut its doors for good and was forced to auction off its assets.
GOP leaders: Pipeline stays in payroll tax bill
• USA TodayA dispute over a Canada to Texas oil pipeline threatened to complicate efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would avert a New Year's tax increase for millions of Americans and extend government benefits to the unemployed.
Republicans Cynical Plan to Force Work to Begin on the Keystone XL Pipeline
• Oilprice.comThere’s cynicism, and then there’s Congress.
Rush for Gas Rights Ignites Battles for Control of Land
• New York TimesAs energy companies move to drill in densely populated areas from Pennsylvania to Texas, battles are breaking out over who will have the final say in managing the shale gas boom. The fight, which pits towns and cities against energy companies and st
Guess What The #1 Source Of Energy Was In 1800
• Business InsiderThis chart is also fascinating, as it shows where our energy came from every year since 1800 - The answer? - Biomass (so, basically, burning wood chips, animal blubber, and any other organic product that can be turned into energy). Click thru for cha
How silver 'dust' is poised to revolutionize battery power
• Terrence AymResearchers have been laboring towards a quantum leap seeking to meet the soaring demand for smaller, more powerful, longer-lasting batteries. Some thought achieving such a thing would be nothing short of magic. The magic began in a small way during
VIDEO: Now Internet Reformation Demands Tesla's Research on Limitless Energy
• The Daily BellIs the American bureaucracy holding deep insights and papers of Nikola Tesla? That's the argument this video (below) is making. The makers of the video advocate a day of protest demanding the release of Nikola Tesla's research to take place on Jan. 7
Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?
• Oilprice.comWhile Iraq and Kuwait are now at peace, many of the border issues that led to conflict two decades ago remain, which no amount of diplomatic bonhomie can completely paper over.
New Wind Turbine Design for Offshore
• arcleinBut he and colleagues Kenji Tanaka and Kiyoshi Uzawa from the University of Tokyo found that "discarding the idea of 'stable and upright' might lead to a new low-cost wind turbine concept".
Capturing Electricity with a Shoe
• Tom Krupenkin via PopSci.comHumans are not very efficient. When we walk, we waste close to 20 watts of energy per second. Instead of turning all calories into lift or forward motion, we turn most of them into heat that’s quickly dissipated.
Australia’s Expensive Solar Ambitions
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikGreen activists, take note – for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigeno
In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Energy Production China to Embrace Fracking
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikOn 24 November China’s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China’s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 million tons in 2010, is projected to rise to 360 million to
14,000 Windmill Losers
• arclein"Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California 'big three' locations which include Altamont Pass, Tehachapin and San Gorgonio, considered among the world's best wind sites," writes Andrew Walden of the
Google abandons renewable energy project
• Matt Warman via The TelegraphGoogle has pulled out of its bid to encourage renewable energy and ditched its Wikipedia rival Knol.
Google quits plans to make cheap renewable energy
• reuters.comSays other institutions better placed to carry on effort
Uranium Boom in Kazakhstan
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikKazakhstan produces 33 percent of world’s mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons.
Russia Ups Ante with Caspian Neighbors by Moving Offshore
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikOn 16 November in Astrakhan Lukoil president, Vagit Alekperov told journalists that his company will spend over $16 billion over the next decade to develop the country’s Caspian offshore Korchagin and Filanovskii oil and natural gas fields in the Cas
Energy of the Future: Spaced Based Solar Stations
• News LinkA solar power station in space measuring several kilometres in length may sound like something from a science fiction film, but the reality is that this idea could well be operational within less than 20 years.
A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search
• nytimes.comHalfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on a former cattle ranch and gypsum mine, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes.
IEA Report Advises Governments to Embrace Renewables and Nuclear
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikStripped of its cautious language, the IEA report essentially noted that should present trends continue, the world’s governments through a lack of progressive initiative embracing alternative energy sources would continue to rely on ‘tried and true”
The Impact of Germany’s Decision to Phase out Nuclear Energy
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikOn 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close all of its 18 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, which produce about 28 percent of the country's electricit
Thorium Reactors to be Built in India and China
• arcleinThe development of workable and large-scale thorium reactors has for decades been a dream for nuclear engineers, while for environmentalists it has become a major hope as an alternative to fossil fuels. Proponents say the fuel has considerable advant
Cover Up - New Report Shreds Japan's Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikIn the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, both TEPCO and the Japanese government were at pains to minimize the disaster’s consequences, hardly surprising given the country’s densely populated regions.
China’s Growing Interest in Biofuels
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikOn 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel. The Jet A-1 biofuel kerosene used in the flight was derived from the seeds of tung trees, more commonly known as ja
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