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University of Illinois chemical and biological engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group joined with researchers at Dioxide Materials, a startup company, have found…
Finally, the US Department of Energy’s First Quadrennial Technology Review, released last week, identifies Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing as the technology’s primary obstacle. It would…
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes the announcement that researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential…
A lawsuit in Pennsylvania has put the state’s natural gas production at risk. Thousands of oil and gas properties in the Marcellus Shale thought to…
Think alginate, that you may have met quite intimately if you’ve had dental impressions made – the gooey, but not sticky substance that was in…
For many the idea that operating a motor vehicle can be much cheaper is a non-starting idea. Their real world experience won’t support the facts…
The Marcellus Shale formation that extends across eight U.S. states has a new estimate out from the US Geological Survey (USGS). The new estimate of…
Observers, journalists and investors don’t always know the finer details of the qualities of biomass destined for making fuel. The question of how much useable…
Whatever one might think of the Obama presidency and the progress of the country or the direction the country is headed, the question is coming…
According to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry some 12.8 million ha…
ICF International a major consulting firm has let slip two news reports out of their research that should cause consumers to perk up and get…
The wide-ranging Al Fin hit upon a graph that will stun the peak oil believers. You’ll want to save this. The flip side is it…
It’s not a joke, MIT’s Miles C. Barr, Jill A. Rowehl, Richard R. Lunt, Jingjing Xu, Annie Wang, Christopher M. Boyce, Sung Gap Im, and…
Today biodiesel is made by the batch, a naturally less efficient way for processes to run. A continuous process would be less expensive to run,…
Spooked by the Chinese embargo of rare earth elements the rare earth mining industry is busily looking and investing in rare earth mineral extraction. Several…
Very high altitude offers major solar advantages. The stratosphere begins at 5 to 30 miles up, depending on where you look and the conditions at…
The European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners has completed lab tests and is set to demonstrate a cost-effective…
The financial crisis of 2008 and the high gasoline prices that have haunted consumers since has the Peak Oil debate pressuring enhanced oil recovery. Today…
Exxon’s CEO Rex Tillerson announced back in March plans to spend $100 million a day for the next five years to expand the search for…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got the file Monday as the State Department concluded a public comment period on its draft environmental impact statement,…