Vada Energy blog

All the world is talking today about USA’s 44th president, Barack Obama. We will just review his environment agenda.
A long time ago, President Obama announced his agenda as very different from what we are used to. He lets us see that US economy can not only not lose, but also win from keeping environmental policies [...]

Google announced the release of a free software that allows users to monitor their home electricity use and mitigate the effects of global warming, without paying anything extra for the effort.

A team of researchers at the University of Essex has received European funds worth 2.5 million pounds to complete a project to construct a robotic fish shaped like Carp able to monitor the pollution from ports.

Road trips define America as much as baseball and apple pie, lemonade and lightning bugs. But with gas prices climbing past $4 per gallon and growing sensitivity to the environmental costs of driving, they’ve become more difficult to justify than ever. There are ways, though, to compromise - not on the natural splendor and the [...]

1. Easy on the Throttle
The single most important technique to make your existing car more efficient is speed, or lack thereof. In the city, avoid jackrabbit starts and lead-footed stops - this kills your fuel economy as well as your brakes. On the highway wind resistance is your enemy, and the faster you go the [...]

A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source in a similar way to plants.
“Breaking open the very stable bonds in CO2 is one of the biggest challenges in synthetic chemistry,” says Frederic Goettmann, a chemist at the Max Planck Institute for [...]

Global Resource Corporation (GRC) found a way to convert all plastics scrap and especially tire rubber to… guess what… DIESEL oil! The secret behind this invention is the generation of hundreds (to be more specific, 1200) of microwave spectrum frequencies, each of them acting on some hydrocarbons from the material to be “melted”.

Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel industry, pollutes 70% more than the fossil fuels. They calculated the emissions released by growing the crops such as maize, rapeseed and cane sugar to produce biofuels. The team of American, [...]

A parliamentary group, called “The Greens” has released a report on Wednesday in which they underline the lack of nuclear development during the latest years, although some over-exaggerate its growing line.

The servers, routers, switches and other components of a network are designed to work with much larger quantities of data than they do daily, but they use just about the same amount of electricity whether they’re idle or busy.
Sergiu Nedevschi of the University of California in Berkeley, US, and his colleagues from Intel Research labs [...]

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found out a greener way to desalinize sea water. It uses carbon nanotubes which have pores that are 100,000 times smaller than a human hair, and were able to determine the rejection mechanism within the pores.

While diesel is approaching $5 a gallon, researchers become more interested in finding a way to reduce fuel consumption on the heavy trucks at highway speeds. Now they have come up with an interesting idea: while there’s little point in firstly modifying the engines to consume less, and spending a lot of money on upgrading [...]

Germany has an ongoing plan to store their CO2 emissions underground. They used a special drill during tests earlier this year for the carbon capture project in Ketzin. The GFZ geoscience institute says that Germany will inaugurate Europe’s first underground carbon dioxide storage site.

A new catalyst has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. It can reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions diesel engines from 90%-95%. Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc. (IFT), a Washington State start-up company with offices in Spokane and Kirkland, has been licensed to produce it.

First of all, I must say I am not an American. Over the years, America’s economical supremacy has led the world’s trends from zero to where we are now. Today, America celebrates the Independence Day. Independence itself is the greatest concept of them all, it’s the feeling of freedom and the fiesta of life. Or, [...]