Coal-Fired Jets ?
Coal’s stability in high temperatures could make it an ideal fuel for the next generation of military aircraft.
Technology
Researchers explore using glucose as fuel
You may not soon be able to refuel your car with corn syrup or charge a computer by plugging it into a bottle of Coca-Cola. But to Stanley Kravitz and a group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, sugar looks like the new oil.
Scientists Urge Shift to Non-Food Crops
Farmers of the world must shift quickly to growing plants for industrial uses such as oils and plastics to replace petrochemicals as the climate warms and crude supplies run out, British scientists said on Monday.
Bio warfare: Nothing more exposes fantastic delusions of the nutters who run the USA
Since 9/11 more than US$10 billion has been spent on biological weapons, and the physical plant at the Fort has been expanded to the tune of $400 million.
EU matches Japanese fusion offer
THE European Union would be prepared to match a Japanese offer to pay a greater share of the construction costs of the world’s first prototype nuclear fusion reactor in order to host the project, an EU source said late on Tuesday.
US: Company mulls coal-to-diesel plant
A company has begun studying the feasibility of a plant that would convert coal into diesel fuel.
It would be the first plant of its kind in the United States.
Blowing the whistle on Yucca Mountain
Why I quit the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
North Sea: Oil reserves ‘may stay untapped’
An independent oil company says that more than ten billion barrels of North Sea oil could remain untapped.
EU ‘confident’ of star power site
Europe is still confident that it will be chosen to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
Colorado gas wells rely on true grit
Colorado is full of sand, but it’s useless for luring natural gas out of the earth through an increasingly important drilling method called hydraulic fracturing.
U.S. is caught in energy time loop
Where energy is concerned, much has changed since 1980. Unfortunately, much also remains the same.
The promise of artificial photosynthesis
It is still unclear where most of our energy will come from in the longer-term future. A promising new contender is emerging: the harnessing of photosynthesis.
