BioSolar’s Breakthrough Solar Product May Change the Solar Industry
BioSolar’s Eco-Friendlier Protective Solar Module Component Rids Solar Energy of Petroleum and Removes Fossil Fuels from Solar Energy Equation
BioSolar, Inc. (BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar modules, “has developed a ‘biobacksheet’ that may change the solar industry,” according to a July 22, 2009 article on Energy Boom.
“BioSolar is currently making steady strides in the commercialization process, and we are always pleased when members of the solar industry share our excitement. We received great feedback following our recent announcement of the successful prototype run of the new BioBacksheetTM-A,” said BioSolar’s CEO Dr. David Lee.
News of the development [...]
Live Algae Oil Extraction
OriginOil Announces Breakthrough Process for Live Algae Oil Extraction
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, a promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, recently announced that it has succeeded in extracting algae oil on a continuous basis without cell sacrifice. This new “milking” process will join the company’s Cascading Production™ technique to create a combined cycle promising new efficiencies.
Live Extraction™, or milking, is inherently efficient because it achieves continuous production of algae oil without destroying the algae cell. Therefore a single algae cell can produce more oil during its lifetime using lower amounts of energy. Unlike other approaches to live extraction, [...]
Exxon to Invest $600 Million to Make Fuel From Algae
Turning Living Algae into Mini Oil Wells
The oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as “moonshine,” is about to venture into biofuels.
On July 21, Exxon announced an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae — organisms in water that range from pond scum to seaweed. The biofuel effort involves a partnership with Synthetic Genomics, a biotechnology company founded by the genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter.
New Scientist recently published the following interview with Mr. Venter about turning living algae into mini oil wells:
Algae that can turn carbon dioxide back into fossil fuel – it sounds too good to be [...]
Plan to Revolutionize the Solar Industry with Breakthrough Cross-Industry Technology
Mass Production Technology to Bridge Gap Between Inexpensive Thin-Film and Higher Efficiency Silicon Wafer Technologies
XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX), an established solar company, recently announced that it is developing a breakthrough thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) cross-industry technology that may soon utilize the excess manufacturing capacity of the mature hard disc drive (HDD) industry to mass produce high efficiency, low cost solar cells to truly capture the power of the sun.
Joseph Grimes, XsunX’s President, stated, “XsunX is excited to announce its expanded plan for development. The breakthrough thin-film opportunity was developed from an initial idea last fall and has matured to a reality today. We are working rapidly with our strategic partners [...]
Use the Market Correction to Buy Green Stocks
The Recent Market Correction Provides a Great Opportunity to Buy Green Stocks
Stock markets have just have finished a particularly strong quarter – with the S&P 500 Index gaining 15.2% for its best quarter since 1998, the MSCI World Index rising by 19.7% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index adding 33.6% – but started to lag last month and are trading down in early July.
Volume has been declining on rally days and expanding on declining days, which can be construed as bearish action. As doubts persist over the strength of the global economic recovery, the S&P 500 Index, MSCI World Index and MSCI Emerging Markets Index have dropped by 5.0%, 5.9% [...]
Good News on Recycling CO2 into Fuel
By Reducing Reaction Time From Hours to Minutes, Carbon Sciences Makes CO2-to-Fuel Process Highly Scalable and Commercially Viable
Carbon Sciences (CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, recently announced a significant technical development in reducing the reaction time of its CO2-to-Fuel process from hours to minutes. This achievement dramatically increases the scalability and decreases the costs of building and operating an industrial scale CO2-to-Fuel plant.
Reaction time is the time required to convert a unit amount of raw material to products in a fixed biochemical reactor and is a very important parameter for scalability and process economics. In the case of [...]
OriginOil’s Audacious Plan for Algae to Overtake Petroleum
OriginOil CEO Outlines Plan to Overtake Petroleum in Renewable Energy Conference at UN Headquarters
OriginOil (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, a promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, recently reported that CEO Riggs Eckelberry outlined a plan to overtake petroleum during a panel session at the inaugural Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) Conference, held at the United Nations on June 11, 2009. He warned that without a new approach, petroleum could remain strong until 2060. Eckelberry’s presentation may be read on the OriginOil website at http://www.originoil.com/OriginOil_IREO_20090611.pdf
“In our planning for renewable energy, we have tended to follow old-school energy thinking which focuses on large, [...]
Another CO2 to Fuel Breakthrough
Carbon Sciences Achieves Breakthrough in Biocatalytic Design
You may recall that Green Investor recently reported on Carbon Sciences’ breakthrough technology to recycle CO2 into fuel. Innovating at the intersection of chemical engineering and bio-engineering disciplines, the company is developing a highly scalable biocatalytic process to meet the fuel needs of the world. Carbon Sciences’ solution to energy and climate challenges is to enable a sustainable world of fuel consumption and climate stability by recycling CO2 into fuel. For example, Carbon Sciences’ breakthrough technology can be used to recycle CO2 emitted from fossil fuel power plants into gasoline to run cars and jet fuel to fly aircraft. Now, the company has achieved [...]
Green Plastics
Imagine a plastic that is environmentally neutral, doesn’t require fossil fuels to produce and returns to nature without a trace. Such a material would surely be earth friendly.
Before the chemical revolution, our society was based on materials made from plants, such as corn, soy and sugar beets? Plants, not oil, used to be the primary raw material used to produce chemicals, paints, construction materials, clothing, and other household materials. In fact, the first plastic ever developed was a “plant-based plastic,” a cotton-derived product designed to replace ivory. According to a recent CHEJ article, Henry Ford was a proponent of plant-based plastics and he developed a demonstration vehicle in 1941 whose seat [...]
Recycling CO2 into Fuel
What if we could take CO2, an earth destroying gas, and recycle it into fuel? If we could do such a thing, it would not only help address the problem of climate change, but would also provide us with a substantial supply of renewable fuel. For several years, that is exactly what researchers have proposed to do. The idea of recycling carbon dioxide is not new, but has generally been considered too difficult and expensive to be worth the effort. Unfortunately, the approaches taken in the past required substantial amounts of energy to perform this transformation. As a result, commercialization of this tantalizing process has appeared to be out of [...]
