by Alexa Kocinski | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
The ongoing, meandering quest, à la Lord of the Rings, to find the best alternative energy to supplant the world’s finite supply of fossil fuel really brings the whack jobs with a lot of startup capital out of the woodwork. The new energy craze has a few companies...
by Alexa Kocinski | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t take a keen observer to know that the coffee business is staggeringly profitable. Eighty-seven percent of Americans rely on coffee to get them through the day. Starbucks just opened its 16,680th store with another one slated to be built in Algeria. And the...
by Alexa Kocinski | Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Every time you use the bathroom, you could be flushing away a potentially great source of energy. At least, that’s what AMEC, a Canadian firm, believes. They are striving to capture human excrement and process it into gasoline and oil through a thermochemical process...
by Alexa Kocinski | May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
You probably wouldn’t think it pragmatic to stick a Hershey’s bar into your fuel tank. But scientists are doing it with telling results. Recently, a British team from the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Center built a partially biodegradable Formula 3 racing...
by Alexa Kocinski | Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
>100 years ago, the common man would have had difficulty envisioning such World’s Fair conceptual attractions as the Ferris wheel, Smell-O-Vision, or Norman Bel Geddes’ immersive prototype of the nation’s first highway system without experiencing each of them...
