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With oil prices hitting new highs, proponents of so-called “peak oil” argue that the world may be approaching the point where production can’t keep up with demand. And innovations, like 3D, are at the center of a debate over whether technology can help replace the world’s known oil supplies before they are depleted.
Labratory experiments reveal the possibility that large amounts of methane may be generated in the Earth’s mantle. Unfortunately the reaction is likely to occur at a depth of 100-200km.
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist says the impending world energy shortage requires several miracles of science that nanotechnology can help to deliver.
Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion—the supposed generation of thermonuclear energy using tabletop apparatus.
A company called United Nuclear says it can produce hydrogen fuel cells kits to adapt individual cars to running on hydrogen, but there’s more than a few catches…
Scientists in Australia say they have have made a breakthrough in the efficiency of using sunlight to generate hydrogen from water. It may be a step toward an affordable source of clean energy.
The Tennessee Valley Authority recovered less than half of its $36 million investment in a failed power storage process in Mississippi.
The RES thermal depolymerization plant was shut down production after complaints about the smell were raised. They later resumed production, then shut the plant down again after the smell resurfaced.
Partisan report on potential for coproduction from biomass of charcoal for terra preta soil generation and hydrogen, ammonia and diesel.
Amidst a prolonged stalemate over where to build the world’s largest nuclear fusion facility, the US is halting work on a homegrown fusion project. The decision caused concern among researchers at a fusion meeting earlier this week.
Cold fusion scientists have become members of a small, close-knit culture unto themselves. And every year, their results get stronger, the group says, results that cannot be explained away by error or any other reason other than a new nuclear process.
Odd methods of getting oil leftovers now more feasible.
