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Switchgrass Produces Biomass Efficiently

Economically viable production of a perennial grass monoculture from which substantial quantities of biomass are removed annually is expected to require nitrogen fertilizer.An agronomist at Ok...

Agricultural and Forestry Science |

UT Knoxville and ORNL researchers turn algae into high-temperature hydrogen source

In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-...

Life Sciences |

Siemens to supply latest coal gasification technology in the U.S.A.

With a gross capacity of 730 megawatt (MW) the advanced clean coal generating plant will be one of the first commercial-scale coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability ...

Power and Electrical Engineering |

North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm

About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing ...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

UC Riverside Researchers Create First Synthetic Cellulosome in Yeast

A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much...

Life Sciences |

Nanotubes Fast Forward Seed Germination

Drs. Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, UALR assistant professor of applied science, and Alex Biris, director of the Nanotechnology Center at UALR, published the results of their findings in this month’s issue ...

Life Sciences |

Sandia, Others Funded to Sequence Microbial Genes for Potential Biofuels Use

“This award positions a very talented team to collaboratively apply DOE’s unique facilities in genomics and systems biology to the important challenge of sustainable bioenergy production,” said Grant ...

Life Sciences |

Researchers Study Materials, Combustion, Cancer with New ‘T-ray’ Instrument

As it did, Thomas Chiou explained how the technology would allow Iowa State University researchers to take a close and unique look at materials reliability, biofuels combustion, environmental clean-up...

Medical Engineering |

Accounting error in climate treaties could lead to more deforestation

A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce gre...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Turning Algae Into Energy

“People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements for use by man and animals,” said Cecelia Williams, project lead. “It now has the potential to supply our energy needs too.”B...

Life Sciences |

In Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer

In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the burgeoning conversion of grasslands to corn ...

Life Sciences |

Planet's Nitrogen Cycle Overturned by 'Tiny Ammonia Eater of the Seas'

The findings, published online today in the journal Nature, show that these microorganisms, members of ancient lineage called archaea, beat out all other marine life in the race for ammonia. Ecologist...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Strategy outlined for growing bioenergy while protecting wildlife

A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing harm to wildlife. Harvesting divers...

Life Sciences |

Unlocking the secrets of the seafloor: The future of scientific ocean drilling

The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which ends in 2013. The outcome of the Bremen meeting will result in a new scien...

Earth Sciences |