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Ultrasound Can Now Monitor the Health of Your Car Engine
December 10, 2012 — A system that uses ultrasound technology to look inside car engines could lead to more efficient engines -- and huge fuel savings for ... > full story -
New Approach Could Help Resolve Mountaintop Mining Issues
December 10, 2012 — A progressive approach to resolve the complex issues surrounding mountaintop mining needs to incorporate good civic science and meaningful routes for public involvement, researchers ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuel Could Eliminate U.S. Need for Crude Oil, Researchers Say
December 5, 2012 — The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of researchers has found. Besides economic and ... > full story -
Synchrotron Gives Insight Into Green Energy Enzymes
December 4, 2012 — Chemists have been using a Japanese synchrotron to get a detailed look at enzymes that could help power the green ... > full story -
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Milestone Along the Way to CO2-Free Power Plants
November 27, 2012 — An innovative method inexpensively and energetically efficiently reduces power-plant carbon dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent. The initial system for utilization on an existing power plant is ... > full story -
Electricity from the Marshes
November 23, 2012 — An unexpected source of new, clean energy has been found: the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell that can generate electricity from the natural interaction between living plant roots and soil bacteria. The ... > full story -
Mixing Processes Could Increase Impact of Biofuel Spills on Aquatic Environments
November 16, 2012 — Ethanol, a component of biofuel made from plants such as corn, is blended with gas in many parts of the country, but has significantly different fluid properties than pure gasoline. A group of ... > full story -
Sweet Diesel: Discovery Resurrects Process to Convert Sugar Directly to Diesel
November 7, 2012 — Nearly 100 years ago, a chemist discovered that Clostridium bacteria efficiently ferment sugar or starch into alcohols and acetone. Cheap fossil fuels made the process commercially unviable, but it ... > full storyMore: -
Earth on Acid: Present & Future of Global Acidification
November 6, 2012 — Climate change and extreme weather events grab the headlines, but there is another, lesser known, global change underway on land, in the seas, and in the air: ... > full story -
Navy Researchers Look to Rotating Detonation Engines to Power the Future
November 2, 2012 — At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, scientists are studying the complex physics of rotating detonation engines which offer the potential for high dollar savings by way of reduced fuel consumption ... > full story
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