Three-Pronged, Energy-Based Approach Needed to Generate Resurgence of American Manufacturing

Staying focused on a clean energy agenda and working collaboratively across the business, academic, and government sectors is the key to sparking a resurgence in United States manufacturing and to mitigating climate impacts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson said today.

President Shirley Ann Jackson

President Jackson was addressing a forum on American Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness, jointly sponsored by General Electric, the Council on Competitiveness, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE), and hosted by the GE Global Research Center, in Niskayuna, New York.

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How sugar could help satisfy the world's energy needs

Hydrogen makes an extraordinarily efficient and clean fuel. Three times as energy-efficient as petrol, Nasa used it to power its space shuttles. It can be used to generate electricity and only produces water as a byproduct.

And yet, scientists are struggling to scale up hydrogen production. Ironically, given hydrogen's green potential, the cheapest and most viable sources are hydrocarbon-based compounds such as natural gas. But liberating hydrogen from fossil fuels creates carbon emissions that outweigh any environmental advantages.

Percival Zhang, professor of bioengineering at Virginia Tech Institute, says that the problem is not just technical but that, sometimes, "scientists have poor imaginations". And so he wants to try something different: why not take advantage of an abundant natural resource, sugar? "Our idea is that simple," he says. "We call the project Sweet Hydrogen."

World Oil Deals - Finding Authentic Petroleum Products Suppliers, Qualities of Authentic Oil Sellers

MOST SUPPLIERS PROVIDE NO VERIFIED OR VERIFIABLE PROOFS OR SOURCES

In world oil deals involving the crude oil and petroleum products trading, especially in the so-called international "secondary" market, probably the single most fundamental and most thorny common problem which legitimate buyers frequently confront today, is the issue of the genuineness and authenticity of the supplier of product and the sales offer he presents. The central source of that problem can be summed up in one word - namely, most persons or entities who claim via the Internet to be oil or petroleum products suppliers or "sellers," or to be suppliers of other similar commodities, either provide NO proofs or evidence at all of that, or provide proofs or evidence that are often absolutely meaningless because they're unverified and unverifiable. Put very simply, for the serious or credible Internet buyer involved in the world oil deals seeking to find genuine suppliers, there are generally just NO duly VERIFIABLE authentic oil and petroleum products suppliers or trade offers in the so-called "secondary" market.