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Airbus is focusing fuels that can be used in existing aircraft without modifications

Alternative fuel 'can power 15% of flights by 2020'

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.


Diesel fuel

Genome Engineering Could Provide New Method of Creating Diesel

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

When we think of genetic engineering, our minds often jump to giant tomatoes and animal cloning. However, this is not always the case.


Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By creating a 'family tree' of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...





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Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing that come-hither look pollinating insects can't resist. Michigan State University scientists and colleagues ...


Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists scramble to develop ways to generate enormous amounts of energy from cleaner-burning, renewable fuels to replace coal and oil, promising agricultural crops such as switchgrass ...


Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...


New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have collected 46 new populations of switchgrass in Florida, adding valuable new accessions to the germplasm collection of this ...


Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that ...


Researcher looks for answers about unique disease-resistant gene

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virginia Tech faculty member Bingyu Zhao is investigating a disease-resistant gene in corn that prevents bacteria from invading distantly related plant species.


New sources of biofuel to take pressure off traditional crops

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

"Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide", Professor John Cushman of the University of Nevada told the Society ...


Camelina jet fuel could cut carbon emissions by 84 percent

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8

The seeds of a lowly weed could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent.


New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

They've been dubbed "grassoline" - second generation biofuels made from inedible plant material, including fast-growing weeds, agricultural waste, sawdust, etc. - and numerous scientific studies have shown ...


Extreme makeover chemistry style

Extreme makeover chemistry style

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have ...



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