Brian Westenhaus

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• New Drill Bits to Make Geothermal Cheaper

  Published 21 March 2012 | viewed 21,747 times

  About 30 years ago Sandia Labs developed polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits for geothermal drilling.  Today nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from…

• East Africa's Rapid Rise to the Top of the Energy World

  Published 16 March 2012 | viewed 10,683 times

  Soon America won’t be alone with a glut of natural gas. Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, made big oil industry news late last month announcing…

• Critics Attempt to Damage Rossi's E-Cat with Unfounded Complaints

  Published 12 March 2012 | viewed 16,225 times

  Andrea Rossi, the inventor and organizer of the E-Cat LENR or cold fusion thermal energy production device has a new problem.  It looks like another…

• Successful Cultivation of Seaweed Could be Biofuels Greatest Hope

  Published 11 March 2012 | viewed 10,738 times

  The numbers for productivity of seaweed are stunning compared to everything other than algae on land. The problem is the cultivation, growing the preferred species,…

• New Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico Could be Huge

  Published 22 February 2012 | viewed 16,643 times

  The BP blowout reaction a couple years ago put a lid on oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico that has yet to…

• How the U.S. Can Produce 36 Billion Gallons of Biofuels Annually

  Published 15 February 2012 | viewed 11,171 times

  Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of…

• Physicists Meet at CERN to Discuss Progress Made on Cold Fusion

  Published 12 February 2012 | viewed 55,035 times

  Francesco Celani and Yogendra Srivastava will be leading a kind of informal meeting called a colloquium at Europe’s fundamental physics facility, CERN.  The topic, “Overview…

• New Technique Discovered to Help Harvest Algae

  Published 01 February 2012 | viewed 20,983 times

  At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed…

• Rossi’s Ex-Partners to Release an Improved Version of LENR for Testing

  Published 25 January 2012 | viewed 13,180 times

  The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor…

• Petrobras Design New GTL Process to Create Cheap Oil from Natural Gas

  Published 23 January 2012 | viewed 11,985 times

  U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it, has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of…

• Is Rossi Looking at Mass Production for the E-Cat?

  Published 17 January 2012 | viewed 25,516 times

  Andrea Rossi, the inventor and energy behind the E-Cat was interviewed by Gary Hendershot and Sterling Allan for the Smart Scarecrow Show last Saturday the…

• New Fracking Technology to Bring Huge Supplies of Oil and Gas to the Market

  Published 16 January 2012 | viewed 52,534 times

  Petroleum reservoir fracturing is set for a major improvement with new technologies going to work miles down from the surface and then out horizontally. Called…

• Why Africa Needs to Embrace Bamboo Charcoal

  Published 10 January 2012 | viewed 10,449 times

  In the developed world where a flip of a switch or twist of a knob starts food heating the idea of gathering dung, wood or…

• Move Aside Corn Ethanol - Sweet Sorghum Being Engineered as a New Biofuel

  Published 09 January 2012 | viewed 11,609 times

  This is one to take seriously.  A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in…

• Will 2012 be the Year of Nuclear Fusion?

  Published 05 January 2012 | viewed 11,315 times

  The third leading technology for 2012 would be fusion.  While commercial units are not in the offing for the year there is a good prospect…

• Continued Advances in Fuel Cell Technology

  Published 04 January 2012 | viewed 23,493 times

  The New Year may well be the breakthrough year for fuel cells.  The astonishing innovation and marketing locomotive of Apple Computers with the i –…

• How Iran’s Saber Rattling Could Affect Oil Prices and the Environment

  Published 01 January 2012 | viewed 14,601 times

  It’s easy to see the Iranian Mullahs and their allied minions as a world threat. The country is a significant source of crude oil, has…

• Reducing the Cost of Fuel Cells

  Published 30 December 2011 | viewed 15,418 times

  Most folks don’t realize the depth of the economic problem that fuels cells pose for mass adoption.  Often there are price quotes running in the…

• Small Modular Nuclear Reactors to be Mass Produced in US?

  Published 15 December 2011 | viewed 17,090 times

  New studies from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) conclude that small modular reactors may hold the key to the future…

• A Better Way to Store Natural Gas

  Published 06 December 2011 | viewed 8,138 times

  Natural gas needs to be very tightly compressed and cooling to very cold temperatures will help to get worthwhile volumes suitable for transport use. Those…