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http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/ ... l-methanol

Glycerol builds up in producing biodiesel from vegetable oil. This is a research report about a possible way of dealing with surplus glycerol.

It's still being worked on. Could be working in 15-20 years?
Now said to depend on the proposed Skylon space plane to build an array.

http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/1 ... -power.cfm

Companies are thinking of using biomass from non-food crops for higher value chemicals rather than fuels.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/ ... ls-biomass

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpin ... rdID=13437

EROEI can be positive but water and nutrient supplies are a problem.

The blacklightpower.com website was completely rejigged on May 22nd 2012 to say the company has finished its development work and is now working toward production. Incidentally it has had a computer program available for a few years to do atomic and molecular calculations. They advertise better res...

The blacklightpower.com website was completely rejigged on May 22nd 2012 to say the company has finished its development work and is now working toward production. Incidentally it has had a computer program available for a few years to do atomic and molecular calculations. They advertise better resu...

.....(cut) I'm not saying that fracking's local issues are not so great that it should be banned. But I don't think we'll win that argument because they will be able to convince planning and environmental authorities that these issues can be overcome. It's a battle the anti-frackers may lose.....(c...

There's a report of a new method of fracking using one hydrocarbon to get at the methane and get the original hydrocarbon back. Not much detail at present because it's commercially confidential and still being tested.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/ ... 111102.asp

This method of energy generation seems to be getting some heavyweight support.
http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/media ... /lenr.html

Hmm ... the Greens ... a party run on collectivist lines ... with no leader. Yet Caroline Lucas seems to have been the ... err ... non-leader for around 20 years ... Ah, of course in 2008 it all changed - she was elected leader, complete with photo all over the website etc. Sheesh ... http://www.gr...

I actually thought we'd taken a couple of steps forward in Scotland. Here's the one step back: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/ferry-port-move-may-be-end-of-the-line-for-stranraer-1.1021451 Transport campaigners have warned that the rail line which links Stranraer to Glasgo...

One of the most interesting aspects of peak oil, to me anyway, is how claims of "running out" in various guises has been going on in 3 different centuries now. These past incidents of "running out" are usually completely ignored by modern peakers intent on pretending that THIS t...

A company called Steorn claim to have invented a device that generates energy for free! These are bold claims and ones that would undermine one of the fundamentals of Physics, namely that energy cannot be created or destroyed but simply transformed. http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx?p=1 ...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070801135045826C552481 www.iol.co.za - 08/07/07 London - Most British wind turbines do not make much noise as they spin around making electricity and people who complain about them should not be losing sleep, according to a stud...