News tagged with bio ethanol
City buses turn to sewage for 'clean' fuel
Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
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Mar 22, 2009 |
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Honda says to open bio-ethanol research centre
Japan's Honda Motor Co., seeking a boost in the race to build greener automobiles, said Thursday it would open a research centre to develop and produce bio-ethanol fuel from non-edible plant matter.
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Cars could run on recycled newspaper, scientists say
Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed "TU-103," that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Researchers find high energy output from algae-based fuel, but 'no silver bullet'
Algae-based fuel is one of many options among the array of possible future energy sources. New University of Virginia research shows that while algae-based transportation fuels produce high energy output with minimal land ...
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Scientists find way to identify manmade biofuels in atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have discovered a technique to track urban atmospheric plumes thanks to a unique isotopic signature ...
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Aug 03, 2011 |
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A new catalyst for ethanol made from biomass
Researchers in the Pacific Northwest have developed a new catalyst material that could replace chemicals currently derived from petroleum and be the basis for more environmentally friendly products including ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Boeing, Embraer back sugar jet-fuel study
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and US rival Boeing said Tuesday they will co-finance research to determine the sustainability of using Brazilian sugarcane in jet fuel.
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Jul 26, 2011 |
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How algae could change your world (or at least your car)
Will we soon be fueling our cars, applying cosmetics and eating food - all made from algae? That's the rather science-fiction-y premise of the new cluster of companies (many of them based in San Diego, home of the San ...
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Jul 13, 2011 |
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Biofuels from the sea
Seaweed may prove a viable future biofuel especially if harvested in summer.
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Biofuels without competing claims in Mozambique
It might not seem the most obvious option to generate energy using biomass in Mozambique, where agriculture barely manages to feed the population. But Wageningen UR researchers concluded the contrary: Small bioreactors can ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Alcohol consumption after age 75 associated with lower risk of developing dementia
3202 German individuals (75+) attending general practitioners , who were free of dementia were studied at baseline, were followed up 1.5 years and 3 years later by means of structured clinical interviews including detailed ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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German microbiologists aim to optimize bio-ethanol production
Food versus fuel -- this rivalry is gaining significance against a backdrop of increasingly scarce farmland and a concurrent trend towards the use of bio-fuels. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are ...
Feb 03, 2011 |
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