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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…
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…
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…
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 rapidly getting famous Bakken Shale of the Williston Basin that stretches across a large portion of central North America is what most people consider…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Honeywell Wind Turbine needs only 33 feet of above ground clearance and just a claimed one half mile per hour wind to start up. …
Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenergy grass crops in the Midwestern United…
For the scientifically adept and honest people global warming is a huge embarrassment. Not only have the main base perpetrators been caught but also the…
Using biodiesel as well as regular diesel in a fuel cell is for many an incredible idea. The Research Council of Norway’s RENERGI program Technical…
If you’re a large electrical user and concerned about just what all the alternative power generation ideas will do to your stockholders, management and labor…
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the U.K. has found that the low rate of energy conversion in all-polymer photovoltaic solar-cell…
Lots of pundits politicians and special interests all want their idea to be the path for a new energy economy. Lest we forget, we consumers…
The maximum use of incoming solar radiation relies on using the full spectrum of the light and infrared radiation. There’s a lot of power in…
With some concept tests thorium used as a nuclear fuel could end energy as a problem issue and shift the economy into a new growth…