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Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

Energy sorghum, a hefty annual plant with the ecological benefits of a perennial, may combine the best of both crops. A study by researchers at the U.S. Departm...

Turning trash into valuable chemical products and clean fuels

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

Landfills take up space, of course, but there is a much more serious problem associated with them - one that was underscored for Daniel R. Cohn, currently an MI...

Scientists develop a cheaper method that might help create fuels from plants

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

Scientists around the world have been trying for years to create biofuels and other bioproducts more cheaply; this study, published in the journal Scientific Re...

Fruity energy, spidery lenses: Nature-inspired solutions in 2020

Dec 24, 2020 (AFP)

But nature also holds the solution to other problems, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways. Nature is "a source of inspiration for scienc...

Cornell University to extract energy from manure to meet peak heating demands

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

The university is already involved in an initiative to develop renewable energy sources and services, with the goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 100% by ...

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Thin films of palladium-based metallic glass, with gold and silicon additives (Pd79Au9Si12) are prospective materials for the production of energy generation ca...

Applying compost to landfills could have environmental benefits

Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)

"There are an increasing number of composting programs out there, and many of them are required to use the resulting compost 'beneficially,'" says James Levis, ...

Shedding light on the dark side of biomass burning pollution

Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)

Inhaling biomass burning particles also cause oxidative stress and cause a wide range of diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, and asthma. Oxidized aerosol p...

Finland's muddy fight over super-polluting peat energy

Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)

The Nordic country is by far the EU's largest burner of peat and is mired in a divisive battle over a source of energy which is more polluting than coal and can...

British military looking to move aircraft to sustainable fuel sources

Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)

The British Ministry of Defense on Saturday said it would look to algae, alcohol, household waste, wood and biomass as potential sources of fuel for the nation'...

Turning Straw Into Gold

Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)

With the aid of technology from the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, Canadian researchers have made important advances to use the ...

Biodiesel made from discarded cardboard boxes

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

However, the current method of producing biodiesel by chemically processing vegetable oil or waste cooking oil-such as palm or soybean oil-is limited because of...

Battered by virus and oil slump, biofuels fall out of favour

Nov 27, 2020 (AFP)

"The collapse of oil prices has had a very negative impact on biofuels," rendering them uncompetitive, Olivier Lemesle, director of studies at Xerfi, told AFP. ...

Catalyzing a zero-carbon world by harvesting energy from living cells

Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)

In most plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria, a pathway called the "Krebs cycle" is responsible for providing fuel for cells to carry out their functions. Opera...

Microbe rewiring technique promises a boom in biomanufacturing

Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)

Their approach could dramatically speed up the research and development phase for new biomanufacturing processes, and get cutting-edge bio-based products such a...

Tough, strong and heat-endure: Bioinspired material to oust plastics

Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)

A new bioinspired material is here to overtake petroleum-based plastics. A team led by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China ...

Luminescent wood could light up homes of the future

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

Consumer demand for eco-friendly, renewable materials has driven researchers to investigate wood-based thin films for optical applications. However, many materi...

New protein nanobioreactor designed to improve sustainable bioenergy production

Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)

The carboxysome is a specialised bacterial organelle that encapsulates the essential CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into a virus-like protein shell. The naturally de...

Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), th...

Bioenergy research team sequences miscanthus genome

Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)

The genome project - led by scientists at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), a Department of Energy (DOE) bioenergy research ...