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Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has completed construction of a pilot plant to support development and validation of its carbon capture technology. Final commissioning testing prior to plant operation ...
Electricity from straw
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers have developed the first-ever biogas plant to run purely on waste instead of edible raw materials -- transforming waste into valuable material. The plant generates 30 percent more biogas than its ...
Plant making gas from wood opens in Austria
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A new plant that produces gas from wood was opened in Austria on Wednesday, paving the way towards new possibilities in renewable energy.
Experimental Danish ethanol plant built
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A pilot ethanol plant has been built at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, to convert agricultural bi-products into the fuel.
Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first
Jul 09, 2008 |
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In a first for Australia, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been captured from power station flue gases in a post-combustion-capture (PCC) pilot plant at Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced ...
Australia and China partner for a low-emission energy future
Sep 07, 2007 |
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Australia and China today signed a partnership agreement that will pave the way for the installation of low-emission coal energy technology in Beijing next year.
New portal for plant genomics will support research into improved crops
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Today sees the launch of Ensembl Plants - a freely available web resource for plant genomics research - by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in partnership with the ...
Novel Technology Could Produce Biofuel for Around $0.65 a Liter
Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over €0.50 ($0.65) a liter, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right ...
MIT spin-off plans to manufacture cheap, efficient solar cells
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Researchers from MIT have improved commercial solar cells that will soon be significantly cheaper and more efficient than those available today. Ely Sachs, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, predicts ...
Feather scientists have Christmas all wrapped up
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Material scientists at The University of Manchester are causing a festive flap after developing a way of making Christmas wrapping paper – from TURKEY FEATHERS.
A green future for scrap iron
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Take a close look at that cheap piece of scrap iron before you toss it in the trash. Wei-xian Zhang has a good use for it. Someday soon, much of the world might also.
Solar energy stored efficiently
Jun 26, 2005 |
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Pilot solar power-plant delivers promising results For the first time solar energy has been successfully used in a pilot-plant to create storable energy from a metal ore. In a project funded by the EU, the Paul Scherrer ...
Less trouble at mill, thanks to earthworms
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Waste from the textiles industry could with the assistance of earthworms and some animal manure become a rich compost for agriculture, according to a report in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution.
Clean algae biofuel project leads world in productivity
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
