Courtesy: Nexterra and UBC/Don Erhardt A sleek, modern building on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, set amongst dense pine forest on neatly landscaped grounds,…
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Coal-to-liquids and biofuel technologies, projects, and potential
Panelists at ELECTRIC POWER discussed how U.S. utilities choose renewable power generation technologies based on their geographic locations, state requirements, economics, and other criteria—including reliability and federal regulations. Driven by…
"It’s déjà vu all over again," said Yogi Berra. The Hall of Fame catcher could easily have been predicting the coming resurgence of natural gas – fired generation. Yes, a…
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Microbe Turns Carbon Dioxide into Methane A team of Penn State engineers say that a tiny self-perpetuating microbe can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide and water into methane,…
German researchers in February said they had developed the first-ever biogas plant to run purely on waste instead of edible raw materials (Figure 7). The team from the Fraunhofer Institute…
Seventy-five countries from around the world joined a new political agency dedicated to the acceleration of green energy this January, but several notable nations — including the U.S., Canada, Australia,…
Following a press briefing this morning, President Barack Obama signed new executive orders intended to spur “swift action” on both U.S. economic recovery and American energy independence. Noting that presidents…
It’s a common perception that environmentally friendly practices are inhospitable to company bottom lines. However, the lean, premixed, prevaporized (LPP) combustion of liquid fuels, also known as LPP gas, offers…
Europeans didn't know that corn existed before Columbus "discovered" America. It had been cultivated by indigenous North Americans for thousands of years before the Italian brought home what was to…