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Powered By Olive Stones? Turning Waste Stones Into Fuel
October 29, 2008 — Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an ... > full story -
Alternative Fuels
Materials Science
Biochemistry
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Organic Chemistry
Engineering and Construction
Digesting The Termite Digestome: A Way To Make Biofuels?
October 21, 2008 — If the biofuel known as bioethanol is to make a major contribution to our fuel supplies, then we may well require the assistance of some tiny insect helpers, says an assistant professor of ... > full story -
Squeezing More Synthetic Fuel From Abundant Supplies Of Coal
October 20, 2008 — Scientists in Italy are reporting that a new process could eliminate key obstacles to expanded use of coal gasification to transform that abundant domestic energy resource into synthetic liquid fuels ... > full story -
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Energy and Resources
Petroleum
Fossil Fuels
Alternative Fuels
Renewable Energy
More Flexible Method Floated To Produce Biofuels, Electricity
October 14, 2008 — Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that ... > full story -
Alternative Fuels
Organic Chemistry
Engineering and Construction
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials Science
Nature of Water
Metallic Silane As A Pathway To High-Temperature Superconductivity In Hydrogen
October 14, 2008 — Researchers have used theoretical calculations to understand a high-pressure structural phase transition in silane which could gives rise to metallization and could even result in ... > full story -
Producing New U.S. Energy Crops By The Barrel
October 13, 2008 — Scientists have produced oils of camelina, canola, Cuphea, lesquerella, milkweed and pennycress by the barrelful in a commercial-scale pilot ... > full story -
New Material Could Speed Development Of Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
October 6, 2008 — Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical ... > full story -
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Thinking It Through: Scientists Call For Policy To Guide Biofuels Industry Toward Sustainability
October 2, 2008 — As the United States and other nations commit to the path of biofuels production, 23 scientists call for sustainable practices in an industry that will, as one of them says, "reshape the Earth's ... > full story -
New Sensor Could Help Avert Pipeline Failures
October 2, 2008 — Researchers have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation in coated pipeline steel. The new sensor could provide early warning of pipes that have ... > full story -
New Research Could Lead To Practical Uses For Metal-Organic Frameworks
September 25, 2008 — Scientists are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks. Behaving as molecular-scale sponges these MOFs have wide ranging potential uses for filtering, capturing or detecting molecules such ... > full story
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