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Chicken fat transformed into supercapacitor components
May 11, 2024 (SPX)
Last year, the global capacity for renewable energy saw a significant increase of nearly 50%, driven by advances in solar and wind power. However, the challenge...
Kimchi Institute process upcycles cabbage byproducts into bioplastics
May 11, 2024 (SPX)
Addressing this issue, Hae Choon Chang, President of the World Institute of Kimchi, a research entity funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, revealed on Apr...
Major advancement in sustainable syngas production using solar power
May 08, 2024 (SPX)
"Our work represents a major step forward in addressing the dual challenges of greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable energy production," said Prof. Baowen Zh...
New Insights into the Slow Process of Breaking Down Plant Material for Biofuels
May 08, 2024 (SPX)
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study explains how cellobiose, a byproduct of cellulose, impedes its own breakdown, compli...
Singapore Airlines buys sustainable jet fuel from Neste
May 06, 2024 (AFP)
The leading Asian carrier signed an agreement with Neste to purchase the SAF to blend with conventional fuel for use by the airline and its budget arm Scoot, ac...
Twisting semiconductors enhances clean fuel generation efficiency
Apr 26, 2024 (SPX)
This novel approach also resulted in increased stability of the photocathodes, crucial for practical applications. Copper (I) oxide, known for its potential as ...
Transforming CO2 into green fuel with innovative sunlight-powered catalyst
Mar 28, 2024 (SPX)
The collaborative effort, including experts from the University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, University of Queensland, and University of Ulm, focuse...
Turning CO2 into Methanol at Room Temperature
Mar 25, 2024 (SPX)
Javier Concepcion, a Senior Chemist at Brookhaven Lab and one of the lead authors on the study, elucidated the gravity of this development. "Our approach," he s...
Tripling the US Bioeconomy: The Billion-Ton Report's Blueprint for Sustainable Biomass
Mar 21, 2024 (SPX)
Presenting a roadmap for a sustainable energy future, the 2023 Billion-Ton Report (BT23) marks the fourth edition in a series of comprehensive national biomass ...
Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
For biofuels to compete with petroleum, biorefinery operations must be designed to better utilize lignin. Lignin is one of the main components of plant cell wal...
Watching the enzymes that convert plant fiber into simple sugars
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
But cellulose, the tough tissue that makes up a large proportion of herbaceous and woody plant bodies, is hard to break down into its composite sugars, which th...
Microbial division of labor produces higher biofuel yields
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
"We constructed an artificial microbial community consisting of two engineered yeast strains: a glucose specialist and a xylose specialist," said Yong-Su Jin, a...
Greenhouse gas repurposed in University of Auckland experiments
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Dr Ziyun Wang's researchers in the School of Chemical Sciences, in collaboration with researchers at Chinese institutions, have demonstrated a method for turnin...
Nickel Single-Atom Catalysts mark new era in CO2 to CO Electroreduction
Feb 05, 2024 (SPX)
The complexity of the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), characterized by its intricate intermediates and multiple proton-coupled electron transfer processes, pres...
Fungal garden cultivated by Leafcutter Ants provide insights into biofuels
Feb 02, 2024 (SPX)
Bio-based fuels, detergents, nutritional supplements, and even plastics are the result of this work. And while scientists have found ways to degrade plants to t...
Ants help reveal why sourcing different plants for eco fuels is crucial for biodiversity
Jan 23, 2024 (SPX)
Now, researchers in the US have compared ant communities in different types of bioenergy cropping systems to better understand how these systems shape biotic co...
Synthetic aviation fuel has yet to take off in Europe: study
Jan 23, 2024 (AFP)
Transport and Environment, a non-governmental organisation that promotes sustainable transport, said it had identified 25 large-scale industrial plus another 20...
Researchers create light-powered yeast, providing insights into evolution, biofuels, cellular aging
Jan 15, 2024 (SPX)
In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers in Georgia Tech's School of Biological Sciences have engineered one of the world's first strains of yea...
Nigerians look to biofuel as cost of cooking gas soars
Nov 27, 2023 (AFP)
The cost of living has skyrocketed in Nigeria since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ended a fuel subsidy in May. Bioethanol -- a cheaper, renewable alternative to c...
Chinese company gives leftover hotpot oil second life as jet fuel
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
With around 150,000 tonnes of used hotpot oil thrown out by restaurants in the city each year, local business Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection has foun...
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