Brian Westenhaus

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• The Coming Geothermal Energy Boom

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 17,868 times

  According to a report released last week by Pike Research we’ll see a significant increase in the use of geothermal as an energy source between…

• Even More Natural Gas on the Way

  Published 15 March 2011 | viewed 6,850 times

  Sometimes you have to wonder, how did so much energy get packed away in the earth’s crust?  Even with tens of millions of years, moving…

• High Oil Prices are Not here to Stay

  Published 13 March 2011 | viewed 6,488 times

  One hundred dollar oil sends a shiver through the economy. One hundred ten dollar oil gets consumer reactions.  If oil prices stay climbing the consuming…

• The Energy Potential of Household Sewage

  Published 03 March 2011 | viewed 5,479 times

  Elizabeth S. Heidrich at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom is leading a team that gives new meaning to the adage, “waste not, want not.” …

• It’s Time for the US to Recycle Used Nuclear Fuel

  Published 27 February 2011 | viewed 6,265 times

  Dale Klein, Ph.D., former commissioner (and former chairman) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Texas System and Associate…

• Another Massive Natural Gas Resource Becomes Available

  Published 25 February 2011 | viewed 6,169 times

  There is a huge reserve of natural gas already discovered, waiting for use and distributed worldwide.  The reserves are simply natural gas that is naturally…

• Can Zero Point Energy Gain Credibility?

  Published 21 February 2011 | viewed 16,077 times

  There is a lot of activity in Zero Point Energy around the world.  In the U.S. it remains an oddball or unscientific field.  In other…

• Ethanol Works and is Here to Stay

  Published 10 February 2011 | viewed 9,372 times

  Jennifer Johnson at Wahpeton North Dakota’s Daily News has looked into ethanol smack in the midst of America’s prime oil boom of the Bakken oil…

• Generating More Fuel from Less Crude Oil

  Published 21 January 2011 | viewed 10,011 times

  The UK’s University of Bradford researchers are proposing a method for increasing the yield of the middle distillates, gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel at…

• Wind Company Allows Consumers to Store Renewable Energy

  Published 10 January 2011 | viewed 10,026 times

  The state of Maine is cracking the market open for self-storing of renewable energy with a collaboration between a wind company and a thermal energy…

• What is Big Oil Thinking but Not Saying

  Published 07 January 2011 | viewed 6,459 times

  Big Oil is much smarter than people think.  By Big Oil this writer means the free world’s independent oil companies.  For those watching, Big Oil…

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

  Published 06 January 2011 | viewed 13,886 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 16,121 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 5,420 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 9,231 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 7,524 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 18,204 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 9,561 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 5,635 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 8,448 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…