Posted on December 10th, 2008 by admin
Turn algae into fuel? You’ve seen it, the dirty green scum that grows in bodies of freshwater ponds. Anastasios Melis, a professor at University of California in Berkeley and his researchers’ created mutant algae that can produce hydrogen through photosynthesis. This hydrogen bio-fuel is clean, renewable and economically viable. Since algae grow best in high [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by admin
There’s been alot of T. Boone Pickens commercials lately on the 7 o’clock nightly news. It’s on all of the networks from ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. I’ve even seen him on C-SPAN testifying to the house about how much the U.S. imports foreign oil. According to Pickens Plan, he wants cut 20% of our [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by admin
Slaughter houses around the world rejoice, you no longer have to dump the dirty animal waste into streams, rivers, and landfills. Dr. Joseph Adelegan of Nigeria, came up with a way to convert slaughter house waste into biogas for cooking food. The energy is recovered anaerobically from waste water and solids is a cost-effective solution [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by admin
The founder of Project Better Place Shai Agassi stresses oil independence and global warming to politicians according to Autobloggreen. Billions being spent on oil imports can go towards building the electric recharging infrastructure to make it viable for electric transportation. Will Congress listen? Only time will tell. If they don’t WE THE PEOPLE have the power to VOTE them out of [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
With the oil refineries running at their peak, imagine if something catastrophic would to occur at one of the locations on the oil pipeline network. Whether that be nature’s doing, or a mechanical failure, or even an attack to the system, it would send a shock-wave to the nations must dependant on oil. According to [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by admin
With the supply and demand driving up our food and energy prices, this maybe a godsend to spur on innovation at neck breaking speeds. The hundred plus billions of venture capital funding being piped into green technologies such as PlascoEnergy & Startech’s decomposition of trash systems, we’re heading down the right path to [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2008 by admin
As gas prices increase, people have cut back on food purchases in order to fuel the car for work. Some have taken the alternative route and are switching to the human powered variety. There are unicycles, bicycles, tricycles, and some with four wheels. If your commute is short and safe enough to bike by all [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by admin
How embarrassing for a U.S. President to go begging the Saudi’s to increase oil production in order to lower fuel prices at home. A simply solution is to cut the oil subsidies to bloated oil companies who made record profits in the billions and reinvest it in companies like SOLIX and GREENFUEL Technologies to eliminate [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by admin
Another benefit of algae is to use it as a CO2 scrubber to reduce the emissions from the power plant funnel stacks. The algae is contained within the tubes to adsorb the exhaust which will lower the pollutants by 40 percent. The byproduct can be harvested to produce vegetable oil for biodiesel for our cars.
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin
The Skyonic Skymine is the bright idea derived from founder Joe David Jones. What better way of reducing the CO2 emissions then straight from the source (coal, oil power plant, and natural gas). The system can be installed in current sites and can remove CO2, acid gasses, and heavy metal in the high 90 percentile. [...]
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