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Start your car with a laser to cut your carbon
Engineers at the University of Liverpool, working with the Ford Motor Company, have received a £198,910 grant from the Carbon Trust to develop a laser ignition system which could cut car exhaust emissions. Transport accounts for 25% of UK carbon emissions so finding new ways of making automotive engines less polluting is vital to meet the UK’s carbon reduction targets. Replacing conventional ...
By Carbon Trust
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Prospects for the Algae Biofuel Community presented at the 19th EU BC&E
The 19th European Biomass Conference in Berlin acknowledged the rising interest in the potential of algae as energy crops by not only dedicating several sessions to the topic but also hosting as a parallel event the Workshop on Algae, dedicated to reviewing the technology status of algae and exploring deployment opportunities. The intense exchange of ideas during the day has highlighted the ...
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Breakthrough in quest to turn seaweed into biofuels
Brown seaweed's potential as a vast source of biofuels has been highlighted with the announcement that scientists have found a way of converting all its major sugars into ethanol. A team reported in Science today (19 January) that it has engineered a microbe that will convert the sugars to ethanol, overturning one of the main obstacles to making the use of brown macroalgae, or seaweed, as a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Algae: Biofuel of the future?
In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum. Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day. As part of the photosynthesis process algae produce oil and can generate 15 times more oil per acre than other plants used for ...
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OriginOil Announces New Research Agreement with U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory
OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced the funding of a new research agreement with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Under the agreement, OriginOil and INL will collaborate ...
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Apple, San Diego International Airport, SolarCity and Sapphire Energy join call for U.S. action on climate change
As California battles the worst drought in centuries, more than a dozen major California-based businesses, including Apple, SolarCity, San Diego International Airport, Sungevity, and Sapphire Energy today signed the Climate Declaration, a business leader call to action that urges federal and state policymakers to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate change. The announcement was ...
By Ceres
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World Biofuels Report
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Biofuels Report http://www.reportlinker.com/p01094728/World-Biofuels-Report.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Fuel_Additive This new biofuels market research report looks at the global Biofuels industry now and the predictions for future growth and development. ...
By ReportLinker
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