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Biomass draws out a field of activity with a lot of potential. In a few years, appropriate subsidies can make the entire market bloom. Uncertainty slowed down the development of biomass, just like it did in the case of solar and wind power projects. However, once the government shows its commitment to support this ... |
21 November 2011
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Ingenious scientists now hope that introducing a maize gene into switchgrass will create an appropriate feedstock used to manufacture premium biofuel. While some researchers are keen on proving that cellulosic biomass-based biofuel can replace fossil fuel usage in a clean, effective manner, other experts say the proc... |
19 November 2011
04:32 GMT |
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The UK administration wants to challenge the coal's supremacy by supporting cleaner and safer substitutes, which might be able to generate enough power to become competitive with their fossil fuel rivals.
Yesterday, officials from the government announced that they approved a new project which will provide mor... |
1 November 2011
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As the European Union struggles to complete its crisis response mechanism, important figures in the markets of biomass for energy are worried that this situation could also affect renewable energy policy decisions.As governments focus on the economy, the development of energy policies and subsidies could be shad... |
6 October 2011
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The ambitious plans made by the EU currently seem unlikely to turn real, according to Niina Kautto, a researcher at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. The EU aims at increasing the proportion of renewable energy to 20 percent by the year 2020, while at the same time... |
3 October 2011
12:59 GMT |
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A wide range of renewable energy generation projects are to be made possible in the New York State thanks to a $150 million fund made available by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Public Service Commission (PSC).There will be 51 large-scale renewable electricity generator... |
3 October 2011
12:10 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) say that small and large species alike respect the same rule when it comes to determining how common they are in a given ecosystem. All ecosystems on our planet contain numerous species of animals, plants and microorganisms, and all these species are... |
22 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Every living thing has its importance in nature, but there are some keystone species, like the Tibetan pika, that can influence the survival of millions.A keystone species is an animal that has an incommensurate effect on the environment relative to its biomass.After analyzing the biology and the environmental impact... |
4 January 2011
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Once Christmas is gone and the tinsel and balls have been removed from the fir, most Christmas trees end up in the trash. But soon, thanks to a brilliant idea of a researcher from the University of Leeds, UK, Xmas trees could be useful even after they lose their glow.Jenny Jones thought of a special roasting process ... |
27 December 2010
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers determined that the Southern Hemisphere saw significantly different biomass burning patterns than the Northern Hemisphere, a finding that may prompt changes in several renowned climate models. The new discovery was made as experts were analyzing an ice column harvested f... |
3 December 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Professor Willy Verstraete is the head of the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering) at Ghent University, Belgium and he held a lecture yesterday, about the way that environmental problems can be solved thanks to molecular and biotechnological techniques.Until rece... |
12 October 2010
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New satellite data shows that carbon storage by plants is decreasing, in spite of the climate warming, say ecologists Maosheng Zhao and Steve Running at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, in a paper published today in Science.Normally, as temperatures rose during the last decades, so did the amount of ca... |
20 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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The biomass inventory that boreal forests have is one of the most elusive and important variables in the phenomenon known as the planet's carbon cycle. Knowing its value could lead to a better understanding of the factors influencing Earth's climate, and their individual importance. Such datasets would also... |
26 March 2010
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The concept of 'natural systems' refers to two main areas of research, namely producing energy from plants and microorganisms, and creating groundbreaking, sensing and response capabilities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is at the forefront of these efforts, having announced the awarding of 20 ne... |
30 September 2009
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Apparently Mother Nature created the perfect metabolic rate, to which all living things on earth must come close enough, in order to survive. This is the conclusion scientists from Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia came to, after examining the metabolic rates of more than 3,000 plant and animal species w... |
14 October 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Who needs petrol or money for that matter as long as 'green gasoline' exists? Iraq war is over, fellas, you can go home now, because scientists have just discovered a way to convert biomass into a liquid very similar to standard gasoline. Furthermore, the University of Wisconsin-Madison also claims to have ... |
9 April 2008
08:42 GMT |
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But why? Well, there are three big reasons for that. The ethanol is a highly corrosive substance, it has lower energetic value than butanol and, unlike the latter, ethanol also produces a great deal of carbon dioxide gas when burning. Both butanol and ethanol are being routinely used as gas additives, in order to boo... |
28 January 2008
06:35 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
06:13 GMT |
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A project called SCORE - Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity aims to create an all-in-one device that could be used in other remote areas like a mountain top cabin where electricity is not available and fuel sources are scarce or difficult to transport. It also could definitely improve the quality of li... |
16 May 2007
04:26 GMT |
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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
02:57 GMT |
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This is the process that fuels life on Earth: plants simply mix carbon dioxide from the air, water and sunlight to turn them into biomass and oxygen. Chemists would also like to be able to use CO2 as a carbon source just like in the photosynthesis for synthesizing organic reactions, but this is not as simple as it mi... |
17 March 2007
10:52 GMT |
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