Haywood Senior Oil and Gas Analyst Alan Knowles is positive on Petrobank and its new Thai/Capri oil recovery processes: The Petrobank oil recovery technologies (Thai/Capri) is actually cheaper; for instance, the estimates are that this will cost $20,000 per producing barrel to put a project together, and it likely will be less, whereas your average …
Second generation cellulosic ethanol pioneer Verenium has started production of ethanol from non-food sources such as wood chips, grass straw, and trash at their Jennings Louisiana demonstration plant (PDF). This is the first such plant to begin operation in the US. The plant will produce 1.4 million gallons of ethanol a year. Although it’s not …
Technology Blogger Roland Piquepaille has died He had his own blog, Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends and those articles were often contributed to zdnet as well and were often well featured at Slashdot. From his zdnet bio: Roland Piquepaille lives in Paris, France, and he spent most of his career in software, mainly for high performance …
$30,000 will buy a high end life-sized video conferencing system on wheels, giving users a feeling of tele-presence. It sports two 5 Mpixels eyes, full voice telephony to speak and hear and a laser pointer as a finger. Users can control the sleek five-foot, 35 pound robot remotely from any web browser using nothing more …
A presentation by Penn West, a Senior Canadian Oil Company, on its oil drilling plans. [34 pages] They are making a significant allocation to enhanced oil recovery. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing can be 44% of the cost of conventional oil drilling approaches for certain oil formations. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing should draw billions of barrels of oil …
About a half a square mile is covered with sludge. Coal ash is recycled into products such as cement or placed in secure landfills, but much of it ends up in gravel pits, abandoned mines and unlined landfills — or in ponds like the one that burst in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 22. In the …
The Wall Street Journal 2008 Technology Innovation Awards Some of the winners have been covered on this site. Nanocomp Technologies, maker of large sheets of carbon nanotubes won in the materials category. India’s Tata which makes the Tata Nano car won in the transportation category Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a …
The large scale cost of getting a lot more oil is currently $200-400 billion to get each 100 billion bbl. 100 billion barrels is about a 14 year supply of oil for the United States. It is about a 3.5 year supply of oil for the world. The Oil industry’s 2008 -pre-crash global exploration and …
1. Kentucky is Considering Using Nuclear Power For Coal to Liquid Process The Kentucky plan proposes a goal of 50 million tons of coal used per year to produce 4 billion gallons of liquid fuel per year by 2025. [100 million barrels per year or about 300,000 barrels per day] The plan proposes that Kentucky …
BC Business has extensive Dwave System [Quantum Computer maker] coverage. 30 generations of quantum computing machines have been made by D-Wave Systems Inc., the makers of the world’s first commercial quantum computers. DFJ backed such projects as Skype and Hotmail, and started investing in D-Wave in 2003. Jurvetson, who now sits on D-Wave’s board, believes …
Eli Rabett claims that a pure standard chemical reaction can explain Blacklight Powers energy generation UPDATE: Dr Mills has responded to an analysis by Rabett“ It is not a question of more accurate heats of formation. They are accurate to at least three significant figures. It is a question of using the correct ones. That …