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Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first

Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

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.





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Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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

Electricity from straw

Technology / Energy

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4

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 ...


A new plant that produces gas from wood was opened in Austria

Plant making gas from wood opens in Austria

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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

Technology / Energy

created Sep 13, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A pilot ethanol plant has been built at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, to convert agricultural bi-products into the fuel.


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Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(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

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Technology / Energy

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(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 ...


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MIT spin-off plans to manufacture cheap, efficient solar cells

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created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (78) | comments 10

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

Feather scientists have Christmas all wrapped up

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created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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.



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