Joule Unlimited: ‘Fuel from thin air’ comes closer, clearer
ShareIn Massachusetts, the secretive Joule Unlimited (then known as Joule Biotechnologies) emerged late last year from “stealth mode” with the startling announcement that their technology could produce up to 15,000 gallons per acre of drop-in hydrocarbon fuels, using only sunlight, CO2 and (fresh, brackish or saline) [...]
The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years.
Fuel from Thin Air
Joule Biotechnologies achieves conversion of CO2, sunlight into hydrocarbons – no biomass, no extraction, no kidding
In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with [...]
Pickens: Oil Will Reach $300 a Barrel
Friday, August 28, 2009 8:04 AM
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Oil legend T. Boone Pickens, now CEO of BP Capital, says oil prices will continue to rise, possibly reaching $300 per barrel.
“Look at the history,” Pickens told Dan Mangru of Moneynews. It proves oil prices will go up, as OPEC revenues increased [...]
Artificial life by New Year’s?
In California, a report on Craig Venter in Discover focuses on the Synthetic Genomics founder’s ambitions to develop synthetic life forms. While researchers have succeeded in “stitching together pieces of synthesized DNA” and transplanting that to a host bacterium; but the bacterium has been rejecting the genome as an invader, until [...]
By now, you’ve heard it in a thousand political speeches—the shopping-
list-style recitation of newfangled-sounding alternative energy
sources and technologies. Clean coal! Solar and wind! Switch grass!