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Imagine a future where packaging is made entirely from waste material and biodegrades to harmless by-products. Or where your home's cavity wall insulation foam is made from captured CO2 emissions. Or where construction materials, vehicle components and engineering plastics are sophisticated biological composites comprised of tough cellulose fibres embedded in naturally derived polymers.
Sep 5th, 2013
Read moreFarmers who grow corn and soybeans can take advantage of government price support programs and crop insurance, but similar programs are not available for those who grow biomass crops such as Miscanthus.
Sep 4th, 2013
Read moreThe promising laboratory results suggest a path to greatly increasing the use of fly ash in concrete, leading to sizable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, construction costs and landfill volumes. Global production of cement for concrete accounts for 5 to 8 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
Sep 4th, 2013
Read moreCall for stronger emission controls to curb air pollution and associated health risks and premature deaths.
Sep 4th, 2013
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The mass market appeal of solar power could get a boost from design and packaging concepts being developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Sep 4th, 2013
Read moreA team of European scientists is on a mission to prove that microalgae can be used to produce bioethanol as a biofuel for less than EUR 0.40 a litre.
Sep 3rd, 2013
Read moreThe amount of raw materials needed to sustain the economies of developed countries is significantly greater than presently used indicators suggest.
Sep 2nd, 2013
Read moreAlthough greenhouse gases and aerosols have very distinct properties, their effects on spatial patterns of rainfall change are surprisingly similar, according to new research.
Sep 2nd, 2013
Read moreMurdoch University researchers are working with the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA) on an innovative project to secure water supplies in desert communities.
Sep 2nd, 2013
Read moreEasy-to-access visualisation of the 'very shallow geothermal potential' of Europe has been made possible thanks to an EU-funded project. By harmonising pre-existing data relating to geological, hydrogeological, soil and climate, the THERMOMAP project has developed an open source web service, accessible to all.
Sep 2nd, 2013
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Electric mobility may be economically efficient today. Battery-based electric drives can be applied efficiently in urban buses, for instance. Frequent acceleration and slow-down processes as well as a high utilization rate in short-distance traffic make their use profitable even when considering current battery costs. At the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will present an e-city bus demonstrator to illustrate the concept.
Sep 2nd, 2013
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Tiny solar cells applied directly to a silicon chip are a potential way of efficiently and reliably powering wireless sensor networks in the future. Above all, this would simplify large-scale applications, for instance in agriculture.
Sep 2nd, 2013
Read moreArizona State University and Sandia National Laboratories have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors.
Aug 31st, 2013
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Second-generation bioenergy plants could be released in two years.
Aug 30th, 2013
Read moreA new study shows show that lipid accumulation in algal cells begins just hours after they are starved of nitrogen - not days, as scientists previously believed.
Aug 30th, 2013
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Researchers have developed a method by which molecular hydrogen-producing catalysts can be interfaced with a semiconductor that absorbs visible light. Experimental results indicate that the catalyst and the light-absorber are interfaced structurally as well as functionally.
Aug 29th, 2013
Read moreA significant portion of the petroleum consumed by the transport sector must be replaced in the long term by renewable energy. Therefore, it is of the utmost economic and ecological importance to optimise the production of biofuels from renewable raw materials. Researchers have now developed yeast strains that produce bio-ethanol from waste with an unprecedented efficiency.
Aug 29th, 2013
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New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths.
Aug 29th, 2013
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