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New UT study highlights environmental, economic shortcomings of federal biofuel laws
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
The federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its overreliance on corn ethanol has created additional environmental problems in its 10-year history, resulting i...
Light emitting diodes made from food and beverage waste
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Most Christmas lights, DVD players, televisions and flashlights have one thing in common: they're made with light emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs are widely used f...
Study: Africa's urban waste could produce rural electricity
Oct 12, 2015 (UPI)
Much of rural Africa remains without electricity. But a solution may be only as far away as the nearest landfill. A team of European researchers believe there i...
Researchers create inside-out plants to watch how cellulose forms
Oct 09, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have been able to watch the interior cells of a plant synthesize cellulose for the first time by tricking the cells into growing on the plant's surf...
Microalgae biomass as feedstock for biofuel, food, feed and more
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
Novel and scalable technology and production process combining algal biomass cultivation, harvesting and concentration as well as extraction and fractionation o...
Barley straw shows potential as transport biofuel raw material
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, sh...
Green biomass entails potential as well as challenges
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
Politically, it has been decided that Denmark should be a growth centre for bio-economy. Thus, the National Bioeconomy Panel was appointed, the primary task of ...
Bravo to biomass
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
Biomass burning sometimes gets a bad rap. That's because many associate the burning of living and dead vegetation with human-caused fires and clearing of land t...
Protein conjugation method offers new possibilities for biomaterials
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Biological systems are at the source of many products designed to improve our lives. Recombinant DNA, for example, which retools molecules from multiple genetic...
Discovery of the redox-switch of a key enzyme involved in n-butanol biosynthesis
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
Two Korean research teams at the Kyungpook National University (KNU) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have succeeded in uncove...
Chemistry for the methanol economy
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
Ethylene is produced in greater amounts than any other basic chemical in the world. The small molecule consisting of two carbon atoms and four hydrogen atoms, i...
Report on bioenergy and sustainability to be launched at World Bank
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
Over the past two years, 137 experts from 24 countries and 82 institutions have collaborated to analyze a range of issues related to the sustainability of bioen...
Building a biofuel-boosting Swiss Army knife
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Michigan State University have built a molecular Swiss Army knife that streamlines the molecular machinery of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-g...
Biodiesel made easier and cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process. Using simple...
Potential of disk-shaped small structures, coccoliths
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Hiroshima University and the University of Tsukuba showed that coccolith disks made of calcium carbonate in Emiliania huxleyi, one of the promisi...
Water heals a bioplastic
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
A drop of water self-heals a multiphase polymer derived from the genetic code of squid ring teeth, which may someday extend the life of medical implants, fiber-...
Waste coffee used as fuel storage
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane. The simple soak and heating process develops a carbon c...
Methanotrophs: Could bacteria help protect our environment?
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
New insight into methanotrophs, bacteria that can oxidise methane, may help us develop an array of biotechnological applications that exploit methane and protec...
Biomethane out of waste for more than 2000 households
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
At project WABICO (Waalwijk Biomass Combination) in Waalwijk (The Netherlands) , the first biomethane gas is injected into the national gas grid last week. The ...
Grape waste could make competitive biofuel
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
The solid waste left over from wine-making could make a competitive biofuel, University of Adelaide researchers have found. Published in the journal Bioresource...
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