New Energy and Fuel is a blog written by Brian Westenhaus, covering news and views for making and saving money in new energy and fuel.
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- First Shot Fired In the Algae War
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 17 May 2012
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- Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a pair of bills recognizing so-called “algaculture” following passage in the Arizona state legislature that will see the Grand Canyon State encourage and support the algae industry. Arizona is the second American ...
- An Engineered Virus Makes Electricity
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity using the piezoelectric effect, creating a new way to generate ...
- Cheaper Hydrogen Gas With a New Electro Catalyst
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Monday, 14 May 2012
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- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new lower cost electro catalyst that addresses the cost problems by generating hydrogen gas from water cleanly and with much more affordable ...
- More Time and Funds For Bussard’s IEC Fusion
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Friday, 11 May 2012
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- The info sharks at Talk Polywell have found the U.S Navy is extending and it seems funding Dr. Robert Bussard’s IEC fusion theory at EMC2 with the eighth device called the WB-8. The break out for the information came from Brian Wang’s NextBigFuture ...
- Fusion Power That Is Nearly Ready Now
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 10 May 2012
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- Harold Helsley, a member of the board and treasurer of Fusion Power Corporation wrote a comment to ‘Fusion – Where the Possible Meets Impractical’ that brings out a form of fusion that seems ready now. As the information Mr. Helsley provided is ...
- Get Ready For Dual Fuel Vehicles
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Wednesday, 9 May 2012
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- Not flex fuel – dual fuel. Flex fuel is a system that can use similar fuels in the same system such as pure gasoline to 85% ethanol. Dual fuel will use two differ fuels that will feed two systems. Sounds expensive, but natural gas at such low prices ...
- Big Oil Chevron Ready to Drill Deeper and Safer Offshore
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Tuesday, 8 May 2012
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- Chevron is about to put the first deepwater drillship designed with the capacity to perform ‘dual gradient drilling’ to work. The ship is a Samsung 12000 design capable of operating in 12,000 ft (3,658 m) water depth and is equipped for 40,000 ft ...
- Sweet Sorghum Made Into Bio Diesel
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Monday, 7 May 2012
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- Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. has had its sweet sorghum hybrids successfully processed into Amyris ‘Biofene’, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. Farnesene is a 15-carbon isoprenoid hydrocarbon molecule that works as the basis for ...
- A New Break Into Carbon Dioxide Capture
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Friday, 4 May 2012
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- Texas A&M University chemist Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou in collaboration with Hae-Kwon Jeong and Perla B. Balbuena in the Department of Chemical Engineering, assemble MOF materials with profound potential for cleaner energy across the globe. The building ...
- Huge Natural Gas From Methane Hydrates Process Developed
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 3 May 2012
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu contributed a statement to an announced breakthrough in research into tapping the vast fuel resource of methane hydrates that could eventually bolster already massive U.S. natural gas reserves. As ...
- There’s A Lot of New Uranium Resources
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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- The Athabasca basin of Canada hosts some of the world’s largest and highest-grade uranium mines of similar aged rocks. Last week Fission Energy Corp. and its 50% joint venture partner ESO Uranium reported a significant anomalous radioactivity was ...
- Another Horror For Energy Consumers
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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- Brad Harstad argues that buying and holding extraction rights to fossil fuels is a more effective means of curbing their use than legislating to reduce demand. Harstad, who is associate professor of managerial economics & decision sciences at ...
- Fusion- Where the Possible Meets Impractical
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Monday, 30 April 2012
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- The ITER project, an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, remains a project seeks to do the possible with impractical tools. There is no doubt that humanity can accomplish fusion in a quick and dirty way by making a bomb, or ...
- Paint Your Own Solar Cell
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Friday, 27 April 2012
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- Scientists at USC think they have the material made of nanocrystals that could be painted on surfaces for making a solar cell. If the team gets to commercial market, the projection is a pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made with a liquid ink ...
- Thermoelectric Gains Performance With Better Materials
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 26 April 2012
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- The intense interest in harvesting energy from heat sources has led to a renewed push to discover materials that can more efficiently convert heat into electricity. A team of Boston College and MIT researchers report developing a novel nanotech ...
- Business in Outer Space Getting Underway
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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- April 24, 2012 is a noteworthy day as Planetary Resources came out with their early details. Thanks to Brian Wang’s NextBigFuture and Al Fin there is a wealth of information scattered about. So lets get those briefs and links lined up for those of ...
- Three Cold Fusion Processes Coming to Market
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Monday, 23 April 2012
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- The new leader is Brillouin Energy with a new process named the Hot Tube Boiler. Sterling Allen at PESN interviewed Brillouin’s Robert W. George II, CEO; and the inventor, Robert Godes, the Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Allen learned Brillouin has ...
- Get Yourself an Asteroid Week
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Friday, 20 April 2012
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- Brian Wang’s NextBigFuture has posted four compelling articles on asteroids this week. That’s getting hard to ignore and the potential is substantial. The reason why is the resources asteroids contain. There will be metals of considerable interest, ...
- A Better Cheaper Thermoelectric Material
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 19 April 2012
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- Purdue University assistant professor of chemical engineering Yue Wu leads a team developing a technique that uses nanotechnology to harvest energy from hot pipes or engine components. The team has coated glass fibers with a new thermoelectric ...
- Super Enzyme Catalysts May Be Coming
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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- Pratul Agarwal leads a team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory describing in a paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters that light of specific wavelengths in an effect called photoactivation can be used ...
- There is Enough of Everything For Everyone and More
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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- Your humble writer gets a book to review once in a while. Most don’t get finished, some are never read, but one simply stands out from all the others. “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” from Matt Ridley is one that deserves notice. It ...
- High Efficiency Electric Motor Freed of Rare Earth Elements
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Monday, 16 April 2012
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- Both U.S. and Japanese news services have picked up the announcement that Hitachi has developed a high-efficiency 11 kW (About 14.75 hpe) permanent magnet synchronous motor without using the rare earths neodymium and dysprosium. The announcement has ...
- CO2 Plus Gold and Copper Equals Methane or Methanol
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Friday, 13 April 2012
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- Researchers at MIT have come up with a solution of copper and gold when fashioned into an electrode and stimulated with voltage the copper acts as a strong catalyst, setting off an electrochemical reaction with carbon dioxide that reduces the CO2 to ...
- NASA Starts to Get Serious On Space Based Solar Power
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Thursday, 12 April 2012
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- NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has started a Phase I effort to explore the overall viability and advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for an orbital power station project called “SPS Alpha”, or Solar Power Satellite – ...
- A Synopsis of the Miley LENR Theory
- Brian Westenhaus · New Energy and Fuel · Wednesday, 11 April 2012
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- ColdFusionNow attended the Nuclear and Emerging Technology for Space conference in The Woodlands, Texas last month and had the good fortune to gather information and visit with George H. Miley, Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois ...
