The Future of Eco Building Materials

Designing and building an eco house, or renovating your property to make it more energy efficient is a great way to cut down on bills, and not to mention great fun! More and more people are looking to build their own property today, and the number renovating in an effort to save in the long term is [...]

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Recent India Power Blackout Reinforces Need for Solar

600 million people without power – and those were the ones expecting to have power. I’m not going to join the chorus of critical voices reacting to two of the world’s largest power black-outs this week in India. While surely there is ample blame to go around, it’s not really clear what happened. It could [...]

Graphene: Solar’s Most Exciting Material?

So what’s a one-atom thick layer of carbon atoms got to do with solar? Maybe a lot. New research at the Michigan Technological University discovered that the unconventional material, graphene, was able to boost the efficiency of organic photovoltaics by 50 percent with the wonder material. The electrical conductivity of graphene, explained MTU Professor Yun [...]

Why Low Natural Gas Prices Are Good for U.S Chemical Companies

As natural gas and coal companies watch their stock prices sink due to low natural gas prices, U.S. chemical companies are experiencing a boom and watching their stocks rise. Companies such as Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and DuPont saw first quarter 2012 profits exceed the expectations of Wall Street analysts. Both companies produce products that [...]

Ford Working with Dow Chemical on Carbon Fiber Technology for Cars

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) recently announced its partnership with Dow Automotive Systems to develop advanced carbon fiber composites that could be used in high-volume vehicles. The two companies joint development agreement brings researchers from both sides together to collaborate on a number of different aspects of carbon fiber composites with each company bringing something unique [...]

Iran Develops Ultra High Performance Quartz-infused Concrete

Most of us do not have to deal with jolting earthquakes on a fairly regular basis unless you happen to be living somewhere along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Even then, you most likely will not have to deal with the threats of bombing and shelling on an equally constant basis. But the Iran has [...]

BASF Invests in Renmatix

Just like Coca-Cola’s announcement of partnering with Gevo, Virent and Avantium, the renewable chemicals world takes notice when chemical giants such as BASF, Dow Chemical and DuPont announced further investments in this field. BASF’s $30m investment in US cellulosic sugar developer Renmatix signals the German chemical firm’s intent to expand its feedstock source especially for [...]

Green Chemicals: Growing Like Gangbusters

I hope everybody had a great holiday weekend and for those who are still on vacation (like me!!), enjoy the brief rest. The blog is working on a list of top posts of 2011 but it might take awhile given that the blog had almost 200 posts to look into. In the meantime, let’s look [...]

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