Brian Westenhaus

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• Could Sorghum be the Perfect Biofuel?

  Published 21 June 2012 | viewed 18,233 times

  A group of researchers led by Purdue University scientists believes sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable,…

• Promising Discoveries made in Fuel Cell Research

  Published 20 June 2012 | viewed 10,282 times

  Ballard Power Systems, a Vancouver British Columbia, Canada based fuel cell manufacturer is flirting with becoming profitable.  The enthusiasm surrounding fuel cells has been the…

• Apache Corp Make the World's Largest Shale Gas Discovery in British Columbia

  Published 18 June 2012 | viewed 25,663 times

  American oil and gas prospector Apache Corp stunned natural gas investors Thursday June 14, 2012 with a natural gas discovery announcement, the main point of…

• Using Carbon as a Cheap Substitute for Platinum Catalysts

  Published 12 June 2012 | viewed 13,688 times

  An Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of a team searching for an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts, turned to carbon, developing multi-walled carbon nanotube…

• Genetically Altering Plants to Produce more Food and Fuel

  Published 26 May 2012 | viewed 10,849 times

  Scientists from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have concluded that it is possible to develop plants that produce even more food and fuel by reducing…

• New Fuel Injection System to make Petrol Engines as Efficient as Hybrids

  Published 22 May 2012 | viewed 43,162 times

  Delphi is developing an engine fuel injection technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially rivalling the performance of…

• US States start to Battle it out to Win the Eye of the Algae Industry

  Published 17 May 2012 | viewed 7,768 times

  Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a pair of bills recognizing so-called “algaculture” following passage in the Arizona state legislature that will see the Grand…

• Duel Fuel Vehicles that can Run on Gasoline or Natural Gas

  Published 13 May 2012 | viewed 42,171 times

  Not flex fuel – dual fuel.  Flex fuel is a system that can use similar fuels in the same system such as pure gasoline to…

• Chevron has Unveiled New Ship to Perform Dual Gradient Drilling

  Published 10 May 2012 | viewed 17,987 times

  Chevron is about to put the first deepwater drillship designed with the capacity to perform ‘dual gradient drilling’ to work. The ship is a Samsung…

• Overcoming the Impossible: Developing Nuclear Fusion

  Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 13,989 times

  The ITER project, an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor,  seeks to do the possible with impractical tools. There is no doubt that humanity can…

• Abundance of Methane Hydrates will Destroy the Oil Market

  Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 14,625 times

  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu contributed a statement to an announced breakthrough in research into tapping the vast fuel resource of methane…

• A Wealth of New Uranium Deposits Discovered around the World

  Published 03 May 2012 | viewed 19,757 times

  The Athabasca basin of Canada hosts some of the world’s largest and highest-grade uranium mines of similar aged rocks. Last week Fission Energy Corp. and…

• Solar Cells that can be Painted or Printed Onto Materials

  Published 01 May 2012 | viewed 13,638 times

  Scientists at USC think they have the material made of nanocrystals that could be painted on surfaces for making a solar cell. If the team…

• New LENR Machine is the Best Yet

  Published 23 April 2012 | viewed 62,495 times

  The new leader is Brillouin Energy with a new process named the Hot Tube Boiler.  Sterling Allen at PESN interviewed Brillouin’s Robert W. George II,…

• NASA Take an In-Depth Look at Space Based Solar Power

  Published 13 April 2012 | viewed 10,430 times

  NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has started a Phase I effort to explore the overall viability and advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for…

• Ford Looks at Increasing the Quantity of Ethanol in Fuel

  Published 10 April 2012 | viewed 7,359 times

  A team of researchers from Ford Motor Company are asserting in a paper published in the journal Fuel that “substantial societal benefits” would arrive for consumers…

• New Oil Sands Pipeline is More Carbon Friendly than Shipping

  Published 28 March 2012 | viewed 19,363 times

  It didn’t take long for the oil industry to go to Plan B to get the massive new supplies of Bakken Formation oil in North…

• CERN Could be About to Start Researching LENR Following Recent Colloquium

  Published 27 March 2012 | viewed 14,566 times

  Settle in, CERN the multinational research group based in Europe had a colloquium on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions last Thursday.  There was no big news,…

• Several Reasons Why Gasoline Prices are so High

  Published 25 March 2012 | viewed 45,304 times

  When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it…

• Are we one Step Closer to Fusion Energy?

  Published 22 March 2012 | viewed 15,397 times

  Nuclear fusion might be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields.  A series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National Laboratories…