1) DOE Consortium looks to improve ICE efficiency by 30%
2. Michigan State University, Nobert Mueller, has a Wave Disk creates a pulse which recharges a battery
Wave Disk Engine 3.5 X more efficient than ICE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_cycle
http://gas2.org/2011/03/21/the-wave-disk-engine-cheap-efficient-clean-and-different/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/11/new-gasoline-engine-design-has-4x-efficiency-of-pistons/
a good description of the shock wave cycles
Arpa-e MSU Norbert Mueller Group explanation of the technology
3 Tour Engines - Improved ICE with Split Cycle
The TourEngine™ design splits the conventional 4-stroke cycle of a common engine between two opposing cylinders: The Cold-Cylinder hosts the intake and compression and the Hot-Cylinder hosts the combustion and exhaust.
5. Ilmor engineering designs a 5 stroke IC engine
6. Kazimierz Holubowicz is a physicist who thinks he has a plan to greatly reduce the rate of fuel (oil) consumption in engines.
7 Concept: Garric Rotary Variable Compression Ratio Engine
8 http://www.sandersonengine.com/html/the_engine_of_the_future.html
9 Rolf Reitz, a professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
10) Transonic injects supercritical fuel for 30mpg increase, a khosla startup
11) Vincent Carman The Inertial Storage Transmission (IST) by storing the engine's energy in high-pressure fluid improves MPG.
12) SAE 2010 shows multiple automotive efficentcy innovations &
13) Electric Supercharger bumps torque with a decrease in Co2
14 ) Pinnacle Engine Boxer Engine 30-40 % efficentcy
15) Spark Plugs made from lasers
Engine -ICE Diesel
1) Zajac improved diesel engine design
2) Liquid Piston diesel engine design improvement 20-30
3) Diesel-Gas in same engine 20 %improvement
Engine- Hydrogen
1 Hydrogen Fuel Cells costs cut by 75% by Nissan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20071530-54/solar-generator-splits-water-to-make-hydrogen/?tag=mncol;txt
Engine- Heat & Stirling
1 Lonnie Johnson Stirling Engine in a Box- SolidState Membrane Heat Recovery--Heat Engine
- JTEC- Johnson Thermo-electromechanical Energy Conversion System, It will convert heat to electricity at rates reaching just under 40 percent of the maximum theoretical efficiency available in an engine operating between two temperatures -- the Carnot efficiency.
Lonnie Johnson lectures at Xerox Parc Video
2 Lonnie Johnson Amtec
Amtec -solid state heat engine
http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/archive/alkali.html
http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Atomic_Battery
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Motor-Electric
Electric Motor
1) :QM Power uses parallel path technology for more power over a wider range of profiles
http://pesn.com/2011/04/30/9501820_QM_Power_Commercializing_Flynns_OU_Parallel_Path_Technology/
2) Yasa Motors Electric Motor design 1/2 the size and twice the tourque
and more about Yasa Projects
Fuel- Alcohol-Ethanol-Methanol
1) Supercritical Water removes sugar from wood at sugarcane prices
2) Synfuel cleaned with plasma arcs
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4) Molecular Filtration Advancements for Petroleum Refiners
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6) Low grade Coal (lignite) to Gas? Is it real and desirable?
8) Urine Fuel
E3 clean technology hydrogen fuel cell
http://www.zerofuel.org/
Fuel Algae,bugs etc Microbrew fuel
Joule Technology and more on Joule bioengineered cynobacteria
Venter harvests 20 million new genes to find bug that turns coal to methane
Bugs that create Methane from Coal
ARPA invests in bugs that produce Hydrogen, Ethanol etc.
Pressure cooking Algae to oil
Fuel Celulosic
1 One Step Cellusoic sludge to Ethanol
2 One Step Algae to Ethanol
3 Miscanthus Research
4 Anellotech catalytic process for cellulostic
5) University of Maine Tree Residue to energy
Fuel - Syngas etc
1. Miniaturizing Fischer-Tropsch plants allows for more regional smaller scale plants reducing material transportation costs
Improved Manufacturing for large scale chemicals
1( CO2 as a FeedStockhttp://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2008/090.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18387-co2-in-the-air-could-be-green-fuel-feedstock.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9811962-54.html
http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2010/133.html
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/1938440/dnv-converts-waste-carbon-valuable-chemical-feedstock
http://www.catelectric.us.com/technology.html
http://www.powerplantccs.com/ccs/cap/fut/c2p/c2p.html
http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/10/07/fuel-from-the-air-a-step-closer/
Hydrogenization of CO2 (using it as a possible feedstock through Fischer-Tropp)
CO2 to Methanol
Solar heated iron creates syngas
Improved Refining
Factor of 50 energy savings membrane for seperation
Geothermal & Drilling Technologies
2) Fracking Oil Shale (pending safety concerns)
3) New Drilling technology for GeoThermal Wells
4) Improved Heat carriers for Geothermal
5) faster hole drilling
6)Virtual lithium mine attaches to geothermal plant
Grid Energy
Miniaturizing Fischer-Tropsch plants allows for more regional smaller scale plants reducing transportation costs
Coal
Luca Technology microbes turn coal into Natural Gas in the ground
Wind
Vertical Wind towers can mean 10X wind power on same amount of land.
Jet-engine inspired FloDesign boosts wind turbine output (exceed Betz Limit}
Solar
1) Khosla Scilicium a startup in Solar where disk benefits from heat as well.
2 NanoAntennas -Harvesting the full spectrum of the Sun's Rays
http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2008/01/revolutionary-unique-solar-energy-nano.html
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2011/07/11/light-harvesting-nanoantennas/
3 Infrared Light into Electricity :using a wider spectrum
also early detection of diseases and splitting light by color and intense focus of light
4 Spectrolab Solar reaches 40% with mirrors
5 CanSolar Beer Can Solar
6) Artifical Photosynthesis
http://palscience.com/2009/03/11/turning-sunlight-into-liquid-fuel/
7 ) Wake Forest- Fibercell inc Fiber Photovoltaics can double flat cell solar productivity at a fraction of the cost =small microfibers
8) DOE spends money on concentrated solar power
9)Stanford Has a Process to Make Solar Power Production More Than Twice as Efficient to as High as 60% efficient (solar power and heat in the same package)
10)The company's tiny solar cells, each a dot the size of a ballpoint pen tip, have been validated to convert 41 percent of solar energy to electricity, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced yesterday. Semprius is in the process of building a manufacturing facility in Henderson, N.C., to make concentrating solar arrays using its "micro-transfer printing" technique, according to the Department of Energy
Pizoelectric-
1) Capturing kinetic energy from cars- Speed bump power-drive throughs toll booths. -
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-Energy-MotionPower-TM-iw-3318612337.html?x=0
CHP
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/the-holy-grail-for-renewable-energy-solar-power-makes-electricity-day-and-night.html
General Technology
NASA shares technology with others
Air Conditioning [energy efficentcy]
Chromosun Solar Air Conditioning with a 4 year payback
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has invented a new air conditioning process with the potential of using 50 percent to 90 percent less energy than today's top-of-the-line units
7AC technology Salt-driven air conditioner looks to slash energy
Heat Pumps
Finnish energy company uses corrigated aluminum for new heat pump technology.
Building Materials
Architect Grows Brick From Bacteria, Sand & Urine
Nuclear
1 ) General Fusion
Fusion for 30M? Vancouver CA company with Bezos money.
NPR interview with Michael Laberge of General Fusion
2 Toshiba smaller nuclear
HydroPower
Micro hydro- canals slow moving
Rentricity turns presure drops in pipes to electricity
Water
Various Water Ideas
Seawater Greenhouses
Cyprus Institutes Solar Desalination
Bruce Logan Microbial Desalination Microbial Fuel Cells
Substainability :growing trees in the desert
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/waterboxx_grows_forests_desert
http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/04/15/getting-water-to-grow-biofuels/
Scientific America article on greening the world
Desalinization Energy Plant
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/desalination-can-the-technology-go-elsewhere/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/energy-from-sea-water-consider-ibm-intrigued/
Desalinization Pressure Drop Energy
A variant on Salt-Freshwater Energyhttp://www.physorg.com/news171102611.html
Sewerage Energyhttp://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/can-sewage-save-the-world/
Salt Water Battery Cuts Desalination Energy Use by 80%
IBM Seawater Osmotic Pressure Gradient
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the will to explore new energy ideas :Rising above the gathering storm
Electric Cream ??
Recycling
Biomediation
Microvi biotech solves polution problem with tiny dogs
Farming
Urban farming
Appreciation for Dirt
research into perenial grains such as wheat -20 years out?
Diamond coating for plows means reduced energy
Government
why governmneeds to invest in energy ent
