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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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Titan Supercomputer Debuts: Computer Churns Through More Than 20,000 Trillion Calculations Each Second
October 29, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has just launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion ... > full story -
US Shale Gas Drives Up Coal Exports
October 29, 2012 — The US is burning less coal due to shale gas production, however millions of tons of unused coal are being exported to the UK, Europe and Asia. As a result, the emissions benefits of switching fuels ... > full story -
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Americans Use More Efficient and Renewable Energy Technologies
October 24, 2012 — Americans used less energy in 2011 than in the previous year due mainly to a shift to higher-efficiency energy technologies in the transportation and residential sectors. Meanwhile, less coal was ... > full story -
Large-Scale Production of Biofuels Made from Algae Poses Sustainability Concerns
October 24, 2012 — Scaling up the production of biofuels made from algae to meet at least five percent -- approximately 39 billion liters -- of US transportation fuel needs would place unsustainable demands on energy, ... > full story -
Self-Powered Sensors to Monitor Nuclear Fuel Rod Status
October 23, 2012 — Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011 -- a result of the strongest earthquake on record in the country and the powerful tsunami waves it triggered -- underscored the need ... > full story -
Highly Efficient Production of Advanced Biofuel by Metabolically Engineered Microorganism
October 23, 2012 — A Korean research team has applied a systems metabolic engineering approach to improve the production of butanol through enhancing the performance of Clostridium acetobutylicum, one of the best known ... > full story -
Exposure to Fuel from Prestige Tanker Oil Spill Causes Short-Term Damage to Rat DNA, Spanish Study Finds
October 15, 2012 — An experiment carried out on rodents exposed to fuel similar to that of the Prestige tanker oil spill -- which took place nearly a decade ago and caused one of Spain's largest ecological disasters -- ... > full story
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