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April 23, 2005
New Energy News
I could link to something from Winds of Change every day, but their New Energy Currents, a compendium of news on alternative energy sources, is really fascinating. Here's a sample:
Cool Australian guy John Dobozy - after 30 years of research! - has developed a process for recycling "tyres" (aka tires) that essentially cooks the oil out of them with a giant microwave. This produces enough oil to power the process with enough left over to make $3/"tyre" in petroleum products, compared to just $.40/"tyre" for conventional recycling processes that just try to recover rubber. It's worth noting that he started out just trying to cook the "tyres" on the "Barbie", his barbeque, because that's awesome! (via POO-Rob)
And this:
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are in hot pursuit of "the Holy Grail of chemistry" - nanoscale devices that can efficiently separate out hydrogen from water molecules using solar energy. The key may be new research using hollow porphyrin tubes, which possess "interesting electronic and optical properties such as an intense resonance light scattering ability and photocatalytic activity." More details, and a lively discussion in the comments, over at FuturePundit.
There's lots more...go read it.
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