Month February 2008

Aerogenerator wind turbine

The Aerogenerator wind turbine has a vertical axis, rather than horizontal, which means maintenance and repair becomes easier because the parts are more accessible. Plus it can harness the wind from any direction without the blades needing to be constantly…

FrankenEColi produces massive hydrogen

  [Thomas] Wood, a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M, successfully tweaked a strain of E. coli to get it to produce 140 times more hydrogen than it does naturally. Wood is “is already confident of its potential to…

Heavy weather and wobbly infrastructure

John Robb blogs about the current South Africa blackouts where the usual culprits of inadequate maintenance, poor planning, and bad management have, combined with bad weather, causing a massive electricity shortage that will take years to fix. The blizzards in…