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The road to green hydrogen runs through mazes in algal proteins
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Hydrogen fuel cells produce electricity, we are increasingly thinking about hydrogen as the successor of crude oil. But where will the hydrogen come from? Its e...
'Super yeast' has the power to improve economics of biofuels
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with wh...
Unraveling the science behind biomass breakdown
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
Lignocellulosic biomass - plant matter such as cornstalks, straw, and woody plants - is a sustainable source for production of bio-based fuels and chemicals. Ho...
With designer lignin, biofuels researchers reproduced evolutionary path
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
When scientists reported in 2014 that they had successfully engineered a poplar plant "designed for deconstruction," the finding made international news. The hi...
Harnessing algae for the creation of clean energy
Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have revealed how microalgae produce hydrogen, a clean fuel of the future, and suggest a possible mechanism to jumpstart mass...
Engineers transform brewery wastewater into energy storage
Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater...
Organic semiconducting polymers can harvest sunlight to split CO2 into fuels
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that an organic semiconductor polymer called polyaniline is a promising phot...
New findings by Stanford chemists could lead to greener methanol production
Sep 28, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by chemists at Stanford University has unraveled a longstanding mystery that brings them one step closer to a cleaner, more energy-efficient way to m...
Liquid Manure Volume Reduced by Half
Sep 21, 2016 (SPX)
German biogas specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER now offers a proven solution for the processing of slurry and digestate for livestock owners and biogas plant operators...
Valmet to supply biomass-fired power systems to HOFOR Denmark
Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)
Valmet and HOFOR Energiproduktion A/S have signed a contract regarding delivery of a biomass-fired boiler plant and related biofuel storage and conveyor systems...
Boskalis tests sustainable wood-based biofuel for marine fleet
Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)
Boskalis, the leading global dredging and marine expert, and GoodFuels Marine, the leading provider of sustainable marine biofuels to the global commercial ship...
Can jet fuel be grown on trees?
Sep 19, 2016 (UPI)
Global aviation accounts for 2 percent of man-made carbon emissions. Scientists at the Australian National University are trying to shrink that number by growin...
Tapping the unused potential of photosynthesis
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Southampton have reengineered the fundamental process of photosynthesis to power useful chemical reactions that could be used ...
Fish 'biowaste' converted to piezoelectric energy harvesters
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish "biowaste" materials. In an attempt to do something posit...
Body heat as a power source
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Electronics integrated into textiles are gaining in popularity: Systems like smartphone displays in a sleeve or sensors to detect physical performance in athlet...
Croatian Pig Farm Uses Synergies to Generate Energy
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
In summer 2016, a biogas plant of the German plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER went live in Varazdin, northern Croatia. The 250-kW plant of the pig farmer Dali...
Biofuels could increase rather than decrease C02 emissions
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the widely held assumption that biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon neut...
Biofuels not as 'green' as many think
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Statements about biofuels being carbon neutral should be taken with a grain of salt. This is according to researchers at the University of Michigan Energy Insti...
Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming - and quite likely our own eventual extinction - by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dio...
Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
By way of a light-driven bacterium, Utah State University biochemists are a step closer to cleanly converting harmful carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel ...
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