America’s credit crisis should come as no surprise to anyone whose been paying attention. We discussed this about a year ago in our post “Inflation vs. Deflation,” and if you read that post, you will see links to discussions we’ve had on this topic that go back as far as 1998. Because this [...]

BIOLOGICAL REACTOR AND FIXED-FILM AERATION PROVIDES DECENTRALIZED SOLUTION FOR 1,500 HOME COMMUNITY

This decentralized treatment plant
has the capacity to serve 1,500 households.

Editor’s Note: Not quite a year ago we ran a report entitled Decentralized Wastewater Systems, and this update begins where the earlier report ended. Instead of a system to service 150 homes, this report describes [...]

There is an interesting recent report on IndianAutoBlog entitled “Introducing The Blade Runner.” It describes (with ample concept drawings) an intriguing idea – a bus that operates with two sets of wheels, one for roads and one for rails. If the bus is operating on roads, the railway wheels retract into the underbody [...]

Coal, a globally used fuel source, is also the reason behind most of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. GreatPoint Energy has developed an alternative method to getting the energy from coal with reduced manufacturing cost, almost no emissions, and less complicated production steps.
Traditional methane production facilities house numerous components: First, coal is burned into syngas [...]

One big problem of converting to solar generated electricity is what to do when the sun goes down. To ensure electrical current on the grid doesn’t sharply fall off, requires an industrial-scale electrical storage system to smooth out short term fluctuations. It’s a problem at the heart of realizing a renewable energy economy.
There’s an added [...]