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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change is now severely affecting the population of birds around the world. The IUCN meeting taking place this week in Bonn, Germany, has updated the catalogue of 1226 species of threatened birds in the Red List of endangered bird species rel... |
20 May 2008
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Researchers from the University of Texas report that they have developed a method through which large amounts of biofuel can be produced at relatively cheap prices. By using a cyanobacteria, they have been able to produce cellulose that can be easily turned into ethanol and other biofuels. Alternatively, the microbe ... |
24 April 2008
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Would converting cars that run on petrol into biofuel propelled ones finally save us from global warming, or not? No chance, say environmental researchers after completing a study on converting biowaste into biofuel. And to top that up, biofuel conversion could even worsen the emission of greenhouse gases. This is mo... |
8 February 2008
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In just a few months, termites can turn a woodhouse into dust. But it is exactly this ability that can deliver us greener biofuel. Their abdomens harbor a treasure of microbes that could deliver enzymes for turning wood or waste biomass into biofuels and a new DNA analysis published in the journal Nature represents a... |
22 November 2007
04:03 GMT |
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Scientists have been studying biofuels and ways to extract it from biomass for years, but the search for such fuels has accelerated in the last few years as a result of US' dependency on foreign oil.There is now an accentuated need for biofuel and new ways to produce it. Annual Meetings of the American Society o... |
6 November 2007
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Mushrooms are yummy but sometimes they can be more than that. That's why a team at the University of Warwick is co-ordinating a global effort to achieve the genome sequencing of the most important mushrooms for the westerners: button or common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). Decoding the genetic make up of the mus... |
18 July 2007
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People consider ethanol (biofuel) as being a solution to replace gas as this has reached high prices (up to $3-a-gallon) and the oil resources are finishing, being forecast to drop significantly in 30 years, not mentioning that most petroleum-rich nations are unreliable, non-democratic and unstable nations. Ethanol i... |
23 May 2007
11:19 GMT |
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The whole world is on the rush for biofuel production, as the oil tap seems to stop soon. Corn is currently employed for producing ethanol, but the method proved very little environmentally friendly and comes at the same price as oil. Now, Cornell researchers have discovered a method of producing less expensive cell... |
28 April 2007
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Animal power comes with a new meaning as it stumbles with technology. And pigs will save the planet with in energy crisis. Oil company ConocoPhillips will collaborate with Tyson Foods, world's biggest meat producer, to produce bio-diesel from pork fat, but also cattle and chicken fat. This renewable fuel is thou... |
20 April 2007
06:58 GMT |
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It is seen as the universal solution to oil crisis. Ethanol is promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable fuel, as it is achieved from the fermentation corn and other crops or even from plant wastes. The carbon dioxide resulted from burning ethanol would be equal to that soaked up from atmosphere by the pl... |
18 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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You probably know that there are some alternative fuel power plants or engines that use ethanol, a gas produced during the decomposition of organic materials, as fuel, like from corn, or manure from farm animals.Did you also know that diesel engines can very well run on used cooking oil?These new alternative fuel so... |
10 April 2007
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Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some governments' agendas, and hopefully not only because elections are coming.The first concrete measures have been to introduce extra taxes for purchasing o... |
3 April 2007
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Palm oil has been regarded as the best solution for obtaining an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to fossil fuels that would be also a solution for global warming. Thus, energy companies converted generators and energy production from palm oil increased. But new researches are increasingly pointing that:... |
2 April 2007
04:37 GMT |
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In the current international situation, when most of the world's oil resources are on the hands of all kind of fanatic regimes, finding an alternative and renewable solution for oil is of extreme importance. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory focus on the pho... |
29 March 2007
04:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Oxford University have developed a pioneering "biofuel cell" that produces electricity from ordinary air spiced with small amounts of hydrogen and offers significant potential as an inexpensive and renewable alternative to the costly platinum-based fuel cells that have dominated discussion about t... |
28 March 2007
05:21 GMT |
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