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Hydrogen Powered Prototype Vessel for Inland Waterways: Canal Boat Runs on Fuel Cell Drive
August 31, 2011 — Researchers have been operating a canal boat with a fuel cell drive for three years now. In the world of shipbuilding, however, different rules apply than those in the automobile manufacturing ... > full story -
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Cracking Cellulose: A Step Into the Biofuels Future
August 31, 2011 — Scientists from the University of York have played a pivotal role in a discovery which could finally unlock the full potential of waste plant matter to replace oil as a fuel ... > full story -
Novel Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight
August 30, 2011 — Using state-of-the-art theoretical computations, a team of scientists has determined that an alloy formed by a 2 percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has the right electrical ... > full story -
New Cooling System Raises Efficiency of Oil and Gas Processing
August 30, 2011 — Mathematicians in Norway have devised a solution for making sub-sea oil and gas processing more efficient at substantially lower cost. Using their expertise in fluid mechanics they have developed a ... > full story -
Tackling Mysteries About Carbon, Possible Oil Formation and More Deep Inside Earth
August 28, 2011 — How do diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth's surface? Is there more oil and natural gas than anyone dreams from a source other than ... > full story -
Milky Way's Halo Raining Ionized Gas to Fuel Continued Star Formation
August 25, 2011 — Astrophysicists have concluded that the Milky Way will have the fuel to continue forming stars, thanks to massive clouds of ionized gas raining down from its halo and intergalactic space. The Milky ... > full story -
Math-Based Model for Deep-Water Oil Drilling
August 25, 2011 — A new mathematical model has applications to the study of gas kicks in deep-water oil wells, which in worst-case scenarios can lead to ... > full story -
Cars Could Run on Recycled Newspaper, Scientists Say
August 25, 2011 — Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed "TU-103," that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve ... > full story -
New Assessment of Gas Resources in the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin
August 24, 2011 — The Marcellus Shale contains about 84 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas and 3.4 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas liquids ... > full story -
Coriander Oil Could Tackle Food Poisoning and Drug-Resistant Infections
August 23, 2011 — Coriander oil has been shown to be toxic to a broad range of harmful bacteria. Its use in foods and in clinical agents could prevent food-borne illnesses and even treat antibiotic-resistant ... > full story
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