From: Automutt on
NGeneered Virus To Split Water for Energy...

MIT’s Belcher uses engineered virus to split water
By Christine Peterson, on April 16th, 2010

Angela Belcher and team at MIT have tweaked a bacterial virus to serve
as a scaffolding to:

attract and bind with molecules of a catalyst (the team used iridium
oxide) and a biological pigment (zinc porphyrins). The viruses became
wire-like devices that could very efficiently split the oxygen from
water molecules.
Belcher says that

within two years she expects to have a prototype device that can carry
out the whole process of splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen,
using a self-sustaining and durable system.

This is just a very early taste of what we can expect someday from
more extensively designed molecular machine systems.

—Chris Peterson
http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3868

The Fire and The Water

Fire flows from within the minds of men
thoughts that lead to fuel our devastation
one hand warmth, the other an explosion
throwing bombs that annihilate our innocence

We wield the fire of our fore fathers wildly
with a quiet desperation to do better, more.
from some scratch against a rock to fusion
we have openly wept by the fires of forever

And still we falter with the power and the glory
burning chaos on the altar of the most electrical
bound by some boundaries of our own iniquity
we are slaves to the burning within our own hearts

With fire we have walked from within caves to castles
we have brought forth the life and killed it in the millions
yet can we master the art of waring with this beast
or draw fire from the waters of the world and waves

This gift of dragons breathes the flames and the fury
for we are left to sort through ashes for our answers
so may we light the heart before the heads of all
to tame our burning ways before our certain fall.



Coal Conversion Techniques – Coal to Gas to Hydrogen

As the breakdown of the climate talks in Copenhagen attest to, we must
otherwise institute measures for the reduction of carbon pollution.
The conversion of current coal fired infrastructure to gas and then
further to hydrogen is of import to the reduction models otherwise
explored. Conversion techniques and engineering practices will be used
to implement change in the energy sector for the benefit of global
achievement in the environmental action plans set before us all.

Further conversion to hydrogen, with the advent of nanoextraction of
hydrogen from sea water, will be implemented to achieve further
reductions in carbon pollution. The required conversion techniques and
engineering will be invaluable for the rollout of conversion to go
ahead. Current infrastructure must be converted or superseded to
achieve any reductions, particularly as energy needs increase. The
ability to provide expertise in conversion techniques or the
engineering inherent in conversion is needed to allow the efficient
changeover from coal to gas and so on. Firms specialising in these
capabilities will reap many benefits from the greening economy, now
and into the future.

Coal Conversion. – The First Step Forward

Fuel for Cars, Energy for Homes, By NGEN

With the advent of nano-extraction techniques, the extraction of
hydrogen from sea water for the use of power generation and fueling of
cars is a step closer. NGEN's proposed conversion of coal and gas
fired power stations to hydrogen and the supply of hydrogen for cars
will revolutionise the worlds energy sector.

Due to developments in the nanoextraction of hydrogen from sea water,
the hydrogenerator has been revised with this cheaper and more
efficient system.

Regarding the dangers in storing vast ammounts of hydrogen we at NGen
have instituted a "Just In Time" Processing Model allowing with
pipeline and in-situ sea water extraction, the process of safe,
secure- ease power generation on massive scales, and the supply of
hydrogen for the use of cars and other combustion engines.

NGEN looks forward to providing cost effective energy for the worlds
markets, but must overcome much derision and stagnated policies,
before full production can occur, lets hope we acheive our goals and
find the markets available to us.

NGEN -- WA

http://www.foresight.org/

Patent office arms race will hurt nanotechnology

There's an arms race between government patent offices and patent
filers assisted by private law firms. The folks who work for the
former get paid a lot less than the those who work for the latter.
This leads to a continual drain away from government review of patent
applications toward private generation of patent applications. A San
Jose Mercury News blog entry explains more of the problem, which will
affect all areas of technology but especially new, complex,
multidisciplinary ones such as nanotechnology:




Dilbert is alive and well and managing the Patent office



http://automutt.deviantart.com/