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Transportation Study Reveals Potential for Deep Cuts to Petroleum Use and Carbon Emissions
March 19, 2013 — Scientists have completed an assessment of avenues to reach deep cuts in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation ... > full story -
Petroleum Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Automobiles Could Drop 80 Percent by 2050: U.S. Report
March 18, 2013 — A new report finds that by the year 2050, the United States may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and small trucks -- ... > full story -
Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
March 18, 2013 — Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a new mathematical fuels ... > full story -
Making Fuel from Bacteria
March 13, 2013 — In the search for the fuels of tomorrow, Swedish researchers are finding inspiration in the sea. Not in offshore oil wells, but in the water where blue-green algae ... > full story -
Catalysts That Produce 'Green' Fuel
March 12, 2013 — The energy produced by solar panels, be it heat or electricity, has to be used right away. It is hard to store and preserve and also its transportation can be rather complicated. Creating solar cells ... > full story -
Duckweed as a Cost-Competitive Raw Material for Biofuel Production
March 7, 2013 — The search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuels from Natural Gas and Biomass? New Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst Invented
March 5, 2013 — Inspired by patents from the 1960s audio cassette recording industry, chemists now developed a new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. It can be used for the making of synthetic fuels from natural gas and ... > full story -
NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green
February 28, 2013 — Air travelers of the future could have quieter, greener and more fuel-efficient airliners because of NASA research efforts that are moving into further development and ... > full story -
Sunlight Yields More Efficient Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Model
February 20, 2013 — In a method that is more efficient and inexpensive than current models, researchers are using carbon dioxide, copper oxide nanowires and simulated sunlight to create ... > full story -
Affordable Fuel Cells Closer: Synthetic Molecule First Electricity-Making Catalyst to Use Iron to Split Hydrogen Gas
February 17, 2013 — To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Researchers now report such a catalyst. It is the first ... > full story
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