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BESC study seeks nature's best biocatalysts for biofuel production
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center are looking beyond the usual suspects in the search for microbes that can efficiently break d...
Preventing food waste better strategy than turning it into biogas
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Turning your old banana peels and last night's leftovers into biogas sounds like a win-win situation for you and the environment: You don't have to feel guilty ...
Automakers' green push lifts use of hemp, citrus peel
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
Survey the latest at the Detroit Auto Show and you will find fibers from water bottles in car seats, hemp in the dashboards and citrus peel in the tires. Automa...
Second-generation biofuels can reduce emissions
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Second-generation biofuel crops like the perennial grasses Miscanthus and switchgrass can efficiently meet emission reduction goals without significantly displa...
NREL's Min Zhang keeps her 'hugs' happy, leading to biofuel breakthroughs
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Senior Scientist Min Zhang has a special relationship with Zymomonas mobilis, a rod-shaped bacterium that has bioeth...
IU scientists create 'nano-reactor' for the production of hydrogen biofuel
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Indiana University have created a highly efficient biomaterial that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen - one half of the "holy grail" of splittin...
EU probes UK aid to convert huge coal power plant to biomass
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
The EU launched an investigation Tuesday into whether British government aid to convert the giant Drax power station from coal to more environmentally friendly ...
A metabolic pathway in cyanobacteria could yield better biofuels
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be fun...
Wearable energy generator uses urine to power wireless transmitter
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
A pair of socks embedded with miniaturised microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and fuelled with urine pumped by the wearer's footsteps has powered a wireless transmitte...
New catalyst paves way for bio-based plastics, chemicals
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Washington State University researchers have developed a catalyst that easily converts bio-based ethanol to a widely used industrial chemical, paving the way fo...
Turning poop into plastic at Paris climate talks
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
A small piece of dung was on proud display at global climate-saving talks in Paris, just a few steps away from being transformed into a plastic bottle or fuel f...
Plant-inspired power plants
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
A team of chemical engineers at the University of Pittsburgh recently identified the two main factors for determining the optimal catalyst for turning atmospher...
Scientists unveil urine-powered wearable energy generator
Dec 11, 2015 (UPI)
It may be time to shut down this whole science thing. Nothing can top the latest invention out of the University of the West of England. Researchers there have ...
New catalyst to make eco-fiendly bio-based plastics possible
Dec 11, 2015 (UPI)
A newly invented catalyst promises to enable the production of bio-based chemicals and plastics. Researchers at Washington State University detailed their disco...
Now is the time to uncover the secrets of the Earth's microbiomes
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Communities of microorganisms called microbiomes play critical roles in our lives, yet we know very little about them. A group of 48 biologists and physical sci...
A more efficient way of converting ethanol to a better alternative fuel
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Ethanol, which is produced from corn, is commonly-used as an additive in engine fuel as a way to reduce harmful emissions and scale back U.S. reliance on foreig...
OX2 wins concession for one of Sweden's largest biogas plants
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
OX2 will take over NSR's biogas plant outside Helsingborg on 1 January 2016. The plant has a capacity to produce around 80 GWh of biogas and 140-150,000 tons of...
Brazil pins renewable energy hopes on 2nd generation ethanol
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil thinks it has the sweet solution to ridding the world of reliance on fossil fuels for cars and other vehicles: sugar cane ethanol 2.0. Ethanol -- fuel de...
Fighting climate change with 'poop power'
Dec 02, 2015 (AFP)
The stench of clogged toilets fills the air at the US capital's wastewater treatment facility. And for good reason -- it's one of the world's largest projects t...
EU clears clean British power plant
Dec 01, 2015 (UPI)
A European regulator said the benefits of moving a British power plant from coal to biomass outweigh any concerns about competition stemming from state support....
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