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A team of investigators in the United States has recently managed to discover the origins of a critically important class of proteins in plants. Their discovery could result in improved crop yields, increased food security, and advancements in biomedicine, nutrition and renewable biofuels.
The origin of the chalcon... |
14 May 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Next month, NASA will transfer a unique floating algae cultivation system to the commercial sector. The technology could be used in conjunction with conventional methods at water treatment plants, and could address a number of environmental issues, in addition to facilitating the production of biofuels.
The Offshore... |
18 April 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Investigators at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announce the development of a new synthetic biology method for improving biodiesel fuel production from natural sources. This means producing biofuels from bacteria.
Unlike conventional diesel, which is extracted and process... |
26 March 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Investigators at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announce the development of technologies able to produce petrochemicals without using actual petroleum. They have already started a company to commercialize the process.
This particular class of chemicals is extremely import... |
29 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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For the U.S. military personnel, implementable green technologies are a major asset when it comes to their operations developed in remote areas from Afghanistan.
Apart from the environmental benefit represented by increased air quality, innovative methods are being taken into consideration to save human lives and c... |
30 December 2011
01:50 GMT |
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Google has decided to shut down a previously announced project aiming to reduce the costs of renewable energy, by looking for improvements to solar power technology. Its RE<C engineering team will no longer focus their attention on this objective, with the company saying that other enterprises have a better po... |
24 November 2011
02:41 GMT |
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According to a group of experts led by the director of the Purdue University Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, Michael Ladisch, it would appear that separating corn into its various components could be an easy way to boost the efficiency of ethanol conversion processes.
The plant is heavily used for the... |
25 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of researchers in the United States announces the development of two new types of microbes, which could be used to produce a type of advanced biofuel capable of replacing the standard diesel used in vehicle engines today.
The new chemical has a wide variety of advantages over existing fuel, such as for ex... |
28 September 2011
05:03 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) just inaugurated a new research facility, whose main purpose is to boost the country's leadership in biofuel research. The installation is dedicated to studying all aspects of converting biomass to fuel. The new center... |
19 August 2011
04:22 GMT |
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A scientist known for his innovations in biofuel technologies managed recently to achieve another important breakthrough in the field. His accomplishment could lead to the wide adoption of butanol over ethanol, as a primary biofuel. The researcher managed to create a new method of producing the fuel, which no longer ... |
22 March 2011
11:36 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers announces that it has successfully completed a long-term effort to characterize the genes and genomes of plant-digesting microbes that live in the rumen (forestomach) of cows and other ruminants.
These microorganisms hold no intrinsic value, but they are able to break down ... |
29 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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LS9, Inc. announced today that it has received its last round of funding of $30 million, which allows the company to speed up the commercial production of their renewable chemicals and fuels.This is a private industrial biotechnology company that uses synthetic biology in an attempt to develop renewable industrial ch... |
21 December 2010
10:19 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States recently made a breakthrough in the field of genetics, when they identified a gene that, once acted upon, allows specific plants to grow incredibly fast. The new discovery can be applied to switchgrass, Miscanthus species and other biofuel crops, which means that one of the ... |
7 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the Syracuse University show in a new research that promoting the acceleration of algae growth is possible through the use of light particles called photons.The group says that the method relies on using a very special type of light-manipulation technique, that is derived from nanotechnology.From ... |
25 August 2010
08:31 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking achievement, experts at the Colorado-based company Gevo managed to develop a new technique of transforming plant scraps and waste into butanol. This compound is heralded as an alternative to conventional, fossil fuel-derived products such as gasoline, and the new achievement is therefore extremely... |
9 August 2010
04:09 GMT |
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As we also told you last week, bioengineers managed to create the first synthetic life form recently. They combined an artificially-produced genome with a host cell, and watched as the new organism grows. The achievement elicited a huge wave of discussions and debates in the international scientific community, especi... |
28 May 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to find viable alternatives to fossil fuels for many years. They want to create biofuels from renewable resources that would eliminate our dependency on polluting gasoline and diesel. However, the main issue today is that producing these renewable substances is extremely expensive, because... |
9 March 2010
04:48 GMT |
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Biofuel, obtained from the filtered residual oils of numerous types of plants, including algae, maize, sugar cane, and so on, has long been touted as the way to go in the fight against global warming. Its proponents say that it offers an inexpensive way of replacing fossil fuels, and of reducing emissions associated ... |
17 June 2009
04:20 GMT |
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California took a giant leap forward on Thursday, when it became the first state in the world to impose regulations on gasoline and other fuels, with the purpose of reducing the environmental impact that they had. The move will force the market to look for cleaner alternatives, and has the potential to encourage inno... |
24 April 2009
09:30 GMT |
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