Brian Westenhaus

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• A Boom in Oil Drilling Thanks To Natural Gas

  Published 31 August 2010 | viewed 8,444 times

  The horizontal drilling and fracturing techniques that press’s favorite devil Halliburton pioneered to trigger the natural gas boom are the same technologies spurring a Canadian…

• Media and Politics Impact on The Oil Spill Disaster that Isn’t

  Published 20 August 2010 | viewed 28,028 times

  The BP well blowout, fire, explosion and platform collapse, and the ensuing crude oil leak are without doubt the result of human failings.  Underestimating the…

• Creating and Harvesting Natural Gas

  Published 13 August 2010 | viewed 17,874 times

  Luca Technologies harnesses natural processes to sustainably produce natural gas.  The Golden, Colo. based company has developed a process to generate and then extract more…

• Is Wind Energy Storage Essential?

  Published 08 August 2010 | viewed 9,554 times

  Storing the energy from wind is obviously useful.  But is it essential?  Numerous studies cover the matter both asserting that storage can useful and asserting…

• Captured CO2 to be Used as a New Fuel Source Using Solar Power

  Published 28 July 2010 | viewed 12,131 times

  George Washington University’s Dr. Stuart Licht and colleagues have published the first experimental evidence of their new solar thermal electrochemical photovoltaic (STEP) process, which combines…

• A World Without Petroleum

  Published 27 July 2010 | viewed 45,622 times

  Occidental Petroleum is running a very clever and funny ad supporting and informing about what petroleum is used for as well as natural gas, gasoline…

• The Hunt for Dark Energy

  Published 26 July 2010 | viewed 4,209 times

  It’s out there, or so they say in the cosmic physics community.  There is a mysterious “dark energy” believed to constitute nearly three-fourths of the…

• Shale Oil’s Place in our Energy Future

  Published 15 July 2010 | viewed 11,597 times

  Chinese researchers have identified a catalyst called NiMoW, for the hydrotreating of the refined diesel distillate fraction from the Fushun shale oil deposit. Shale oil…

• Turning Crude Oil to Natural Gas in the Oil Field

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 20,930 times

  Dr. Steve Larter holds the University of Calgary’s Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geology and has more than 30 years’ research experience in petroleum geology…

• The New Challenges and Benefits of Wind Power

  Published 23 June 2010 | viewed 12,468 times

  The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) asserts in a study released last month that the power grid for five western states –…

• Solar Energy May Soon Get Much Cheaper

  Published 10 June 2010 | viewed 19,349 times

  Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new solar cell that they hope will cost a tiny fraction of current production.…

• The race to Find a Platinum Replacement is on

  Published 30 May 2010 | viewed 19,422 times

  Platinum – the joy of a jewelry designer – the bane of a catalyst user, and in the current economy its the most expensive element…

• Alternative Energy Industry Breathes a Sign of Relief as Rare Earth Elements Found in Nebraska

  Published 20 May 2010 | viewed 10,873 times

  Nebraska is one of those places the coastees like to dis as nowhere.  Nebraska is a big mostly flat state that if driving across is…

• Turning Biomass into Crude Oil

  Published 05 May 2010 | viewed 15,328 times

  University of Michigan professors are heating and squishing algae in a pressure-cooker that fast-forwards the crude oil making process from millennia to just minutes.  It…