Welcome to the blog area update

We try to do an update when a reasonable number of news items have been posted but due to the dependence on outside news items and events the update is not always on a regular calendar schedule.

Gauthier Collins has a passion for new and innovative solutions to technological problems in todays world, This blog area is targeted at news items that catch our interest and generate comment based on our areas of expertise and endeavor, we have a strong interest in the impact of the previous centuries combustion technology on the worlds environment.

We feel as a company and as individuals that there is a very real need to work on technological solutions that do not depend for their operation on fossil fuels we would like to thank every one that has written in to us to express their support and share their thoughts with us.

Previously on this news blog we featured an innovation that used Co2 as the raw material to make plastic, this fundamental shift in thinking from Co2 being a throw away waste materiel to a valuable feed-stock in a manufacturing process is a paradigm shift we applaud.

The road system of our country produces a huge carbon footprint on our environment even with out the cars! were do you think asphalt comes from? and how do you think it is made? the cold weather climate of North America causes a significantly higher repair and renewal rate of our road system than is normal to warmer climates, the need to renew an asphalt surface could be reduced by recent fundamental research work at Delft University, think of the cost savings if a we could extend the useful life of a major road by even 1 or 2 years.

Combustion is the industrial revolutions basic power source, the only problem is the industrial revolution ended some time ago in the last century! it is rather nice then to see one of the 21st centuries first practical fuel cell electrical generators introduced, it does run on Jp8 at the moment but we think its a huge step in the right direction, obviously the next step is a bio-diesel version but just getting this far more than enough for now.

Ethanol as far as we are concerned is not an acceptable fuel when it is made from food grade crops, from an engineering or economic viewpoint its not even a very good fuel, the low energy value means its 1.5 to 1 against ordinary pump petrol and thats before you consider the corrosion problems it causes, if we do have to have ethanol as a fuel, then morally it should only be produced from cellulose biomass and not food grade crops.

we are supporters of the international humanitarian de-mining efforts and the search for new technologies to alleviate the worlds poor of this devastating and inhumane blight.