Brian Westenhaus

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• A Different Idea on Where Hydrocarbons Come From

  Published 21 April 2011 | viewed 15,336 times

  A research team including colleagues at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Shell Projects & Technology is offering a new computational study published in…

• Energy Breakthrough: One Step Closer to Extracting Hydrogen From Water

  Published 20 April 2011 | viewed 34,701 times

  A research team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has announced they have come upon a new catalyst for electrolysis to split…

• Bug That Produces Methane Gas in Landfills Has Been Found

  Published 11 April 2011 | viewed 62,224 times

  We’ve long known that garbage piled up on landfills weep and leak methane gas.  Its even harvested and being put to use in many places. …

• Japan’s Nukes – Scary or Interesting Concern?

  Published 23 March 2011 | viewed 4,573 times

  Fast answer – an interesting concern.  Those words are chosen as the human tragedy unfolds.  Perhaps hundreds or thousands of people are exposed to the…

• The Coming Geothermal Energy Boom

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 17,917 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 6,891 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 6,529 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 5,484 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 6,307 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 6,213 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 16,081 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 9,398 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 10,053 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 10,069 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 6,504 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 13,926 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 16,143 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 5,449 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 9,273 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 7,535 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…