Brian Westenhaus

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• Turning Grass Into Fuel

  Published 05 November 2010 | viewed 14,913 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 9,515 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 23,188 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 18,842 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 7,181 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 4,432 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 8,439 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…

• Thorium: A Cheap, Clean and Safe Alternative to Uranium

  Published 14 September 2010 | viewed 51,040 times

  With some concept tests thorium used as a nuclear fuel could end energy as a problem issue and shift the economy into a new growth…

• Solar Energy Provides a Breakthrough in Iron Production

  Published 07 September 2010 | viewed 21,013 times

  George Washington University Professor Stuart Licht has developed a revolutionary carbon dioxide-free method of producing iron that could provide a breakthrough for an industry that…

• Dry Water to Join the Fight Against Global Warming

  Published 03 September 2010 | viewed 5,886 times

  Dry water was discovered in 1968 and got attention for its potential use in cosmetics. Scientists at the University of Hull, U.K. rediscovered it in…

• A Boom in Oil Drilling Thanks To Natural Gas

  Published 31 August 2010 | viewed 8,394 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 27,980 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 17,832 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 9,503 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 12,085 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 45,507 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 4,164 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 11,550 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 20,799 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 12,418 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 –…