Brian Westenhaus

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• Potential Job Boom in Nuclear Energy as Industry is poised for Enormous Growth

  Published 06 January 2011 | viewed 13,871 times

  One sure thing for future employment is in nuclear.  Now with three decades past the partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island and…

• Everyone is Lying About Ethanol

  Published 05 January 2011 | viewed 16,103 times

  Let’s start with a lie, albeit most likely the lowest level of lie, everyone is lying about ethanol.  It has gotten so that the lies…

• One Step Closer to Renewable Petroleum

  Published 31 December 2010 | viewed 5,409 times

  LS9, with a fresh $30 million in hand is planning to ready LS9?s lead products for commercial production and support additional development and growth programs.…

• Airborne Wind Platforms: Generating Wind Energy Above 2,000 Feet

  Published 28 December 2010 | viewed 9,213 times

  NASA’s Mark Moore is developing methods the government can use to fairly evaluate competing ideas on tethering a turbine-vehicle flying and how to capture and…

• Major Breakthrough for Seaweed Biofuel

  Published 20 December 2010 | viewed 7,511 times

  Getting biofuel supplies from seaweed has taken a giant leap forward from work by Yong-Su Jin, a University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Microbial Genomics…

• Turning Carbon Dioxide and Methane into Liquid Fuels

  Published 15 December 2010 | viewed 18,184 times

  Liviu M. Mirica, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis may have found and is developing a novel metal catalyst that…

• Could the Farmland Bubble be about to Burst? What Will this Mean for Corn Ethanol

  Published 13 December 2010 | viewed 9,548 times

  There’s another bubble blown up and ready to pop. Its farmland all across the U.S. priced off the chart.  For the alternative fuel future this…

• Driving Energy Costs Lower

  Published 10 December 2010 | viewed 5,618 times

  Two articles appeared last week worth some study by everyone.  The first spotted by Geoffrey Stiles is at a Wall Street Journal energy special pull…

• Biofuel News: Research Moving away from Algae to Seaweed

  Published 08 December 2010 | viewed 8,432 times

  It’s coming – research interest is moving toward seaweed from algae.  For algae enthusiasts, keep in mind that technically speaking common algae is micro algae…

• Biofuels and Sugar Production – The cure for Petroleum Addiction

  Published 03 December 2010 | viewed 8,910 times

  So far the best use of CO2 whether as a fuel use byproduct or already in the atmosphere is get it back to a simple…

• One Step Closer to Practical and Affordable Fuel Cells

  Published 02 December 2010 | viewed 9,196 times

  A group of researchers led by Shriram Ramanathan at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are increasingly optimistic about the commercial viability of…

• CO2 Being Used to Increase Oil Extraction

  Published 01 December 2010 | viewed 14,751 times

  Researchers have developed a soap-like additive for CO2 that turns it into a viable solvent for commercial-scale enhanced oil recovery to increase the amount of…

• Forget a Potential Oil Shortage: A shortage of this Mineral Would be Much Worse

  Published 25 November 2010 | viewed 10,392 times

  Most folks think an oil embargo or a running out of supply would be a disaster, some even realize oil could drive nations to war.…

• The Next Big American Oil Resource Plays

  Published 22 November 2010 | viewed 6,270 times

  The rapidly getting famous Bakken Shale of the Williston Basin that stretches across a large portion of central North America is what most people consider…

• Oil Will Run Out Before Replacements are Ready

  Published 19 November 2010 | viewed 7,459 times

  So says UC Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Debbie Niemeier in a forecast that published on Nov. 8 in the journal Environmental Science…

• The Answer to all our Energy Concerns: A Look at Cold Fusion

  Published 18 November 2010 | viewed 9,328 times

  A Cold Fusion explanation that seems workable and can be a base for theory that the layperson can grasp is making its way around the…

• Converting Plastic Back to Oil

  Published 16 November 2010 | viewed 21,522 times

  Blest, a Japanese company has invented a safe and user-friendly machine that can convert plastic back to oil. The machine is effective in recycling different…

• U.S. Ethanol Production Nearing One Million Barrels Per Day

  Published 13 November 2010 | viewed 13,908 times

  The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports for August that U.S. ethanol production rose in August to an all-time high, production averaged more than 869,000 barrels…

• A New Way to Prospect and Discover Oil and Gas

  Published 12 November 2010 | viewed 6,253 times

  Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and The Spanish Research Council have revealed a new model that explains what happens as the continents thin…

• Eliminating CO2 Emissions at Low Cost

  Published 11 November 2010 | viewed 5,816 times

  The TU Darmstadt’s Institute for Energy Systems and Technology’s newly dedicated pilot plant will be utilized for investigating two new methods for CO2 capture that…