Brian Westenhaus

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• Biofuel News: Research Moving away from Algae to Seaweed

  Published 08 December 2010 | viewed 8,478 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…

• Biofuels and Sugar Production – The cure for Petroleum Addiction

  Published 03 December 2010 | viewed 8,931 times

  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…

• One Step Closer to Practical and Affordable Fuel Cells

  Published 02 December 2010 | viewed 9,256 times

  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…

• CO2 Being Used to Increase Oil Extraction

  Published 01 December 2010 | viewed 14,833 times

  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…

• Forget a Potential Oil Shortage: A shortage of this Mineral Would be Much Worse

  Published 25 November 2010 | viewed 10,394 times

  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 Next Big American Oil Resource Plays

  Published 22 November 2010 | viewed 6,329 times

  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…

• Oil Will Run Out Before Replacements are Ready

  Published 19 November 2010 | viewed 7,513 times

  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…

• The Answer to all our Energy Concerns: A Look at Cold Fusion

  Published 18 November 2010 | viewed 9,365 times

  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…

• Converting Plastic Back to Oil

  Published 16 November 2010 | viewed 21,585 times

  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…

• U.S. Ethanol Production Nearing One Million Barrels Per Day

  Published 13 November 2010 | viewed 13,977 times

  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…

• A New Way to Prospect and Discover Oil and Gas

  Published 12 November 2010 | viewed 6,312 times

  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…

• Eliminating CO2 Emissions at Low Cost

  Published 11 November 2010 | viewed 5,870 times

  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…

• New Wind Turbine Design Could be the Turning Point for Wind Power

  Published 09 November 2010 | viewed 12,848 times

  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. …

• Turning Grass Into Fuel

  Published 05 November 2010 | viewed 14,963 times

  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…

• The Global Warming Scam Hit by More Scandal

  Published 19 October 2010 | viewed 9,575 times

  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…

• A Fuel cell that runs on Regular Diesel and Biodiesel

  Published 18 October 2010 | viewed 23,250 times

  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…

• Nuclear Power: More Cost Effective Than Wind Energy

  Published 14 October 2010 | viewed 18,923 times

  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…

• Improving Solar Cell Technology

  Published 14 October 2010 | viewed 7,229 times

  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…

• Finding a Path for the New Energy Economy

  Published 07 October 2010 | viewed 4,480 times

  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…

• Making Photovoltaic Solar Cells More Efficient

  Published 15 September 2010 | viewed 8,484 times

  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…