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The smoking cabin of the Hindenburg airship

November 15, 2013

You read that right: There was indeed a smoking cabin on the Hindenburg, the largest flying object ever built and filled with 6 million cubic meters of highly flammable hydrogen. And in fact it caught fire in an accident on May 6, 1937 which destroyed it in just 30 seconds causing the death of 35 passengers. It was a highly pressurized room (to avoid hydrogen infiltration) and separated from the other rooms thanks to a double door. She was constantly monitored by a member of staff and were highly… Read more

The greenest fuel there is? Made with air and water.

July 10 2013June 22 2012

AFS (Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis) based in the north of England claims to have produced 5 liters of synthetic oil in the space of 3 months. It's a little bit, you might say. And give me a break. The technique consists of extracting carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from the water, then combining them in a reactor which produces methanol with the help of a catalyst. The methanol is then converted into oil. Now have you understood why it takes 3 months for 5 liters? Not exactly the time that… Read more

Will it be the cold fusion weekend (Italian)?

October 30, 2011

While the Bel Paese struggles with economic reforms and new political pressures, yesterday the first independent test took place on a new energy technology called E-Cat: it is a system that uses low-energy nuclear reactions to produce enormous quantities of cheap and clean energy. If it works, it will be a complete revolution for our society: as Mina said "..and I underline SE". Over the past 2 years, the E-Cat concept and prototypes have been… Read more

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