Tree seeds offer potential for sustainable biofuels
Tree seeds, rather than biomass or fuel crop plants, could represent an abundant source of renewable energy.
Jan 9th, 2013
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Mathematics and weather and climate research
How does mathematics improve our understanding of weather and climate? Can mathematicians determine whether an extreme meteorological event is an anomaly or part of a general trend? Presentations touching on these questions will be given at the annual national mathematics conference in San Diego, California.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreShareholder responsibility could spur shift to sustainable energy
Allowing shareholders to be held liable for the damages that companies cause to the environment and people could help transform the world's energy system towards sustainability.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreNew tool calculates potential renewable energy derived from waste material
Cranfield University has developed a new approach for calculating the potential renewable energy derived from waste material, prior to incineration, which could save time and money for the energy and waste industries.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreChina's offshore wind energy industry entering era of large-scale development
Wind power has become the third-largest electric power in China.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreStudy finds flame retardant pollutants at far-flung locations
Research supports effectiveness of tree bark as novel sampling medium for contamination.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreEngineering alternative fuel with cyanobacteria
Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria's production potential.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreA French nuclear exit?
France has been held up, worldwide, as the forerunner in using nuclear fission to produce electricity. However, a third of the nation's nuclear reactors will need replacing in the next decade, and public opinion has shifted toward reducing reliance on nuclear power.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreWine feels the effects of a changing climate
The signs of climate change are universally evident, but for French winemakers, already feeling the effects of competition from other countries, the year of volatile weather does not bode well.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreFrom the Amazon rainforest to human body cells: quantifying stability
The Amazon rainforest, energy grids, and cells in the human body share a troublesome property: they possess multiple stable states. When the world's largest tropical forest suddenly starts retreating in a warming climate, energy supply blacks out, or cells turn carcinogenic, complex-systems science understands this as a transition between two such states.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreSacrifice and luck help Japan survive without nuclear power
In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, nuclear-dependent Japan began shutting down its other reactors. Toshiya Okamura, a Tokyo Gas executive and visiting scholar at Stanford University, explains how the country survived the summer, and expresses deep concerns about this winter and his country's energy future.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreDOE awards $10M to develop advanced biofuels
These projects use innovative synthetic biological and chemical techniques to convert biomass into processable sugars that can be transformed into bioproducts and drop-in biofuels for cars, trucks, and planes.
Jan 5th, 2013
Read morePhotosynthesis: The last link in the chain
For almost 30 years, researchers have sought to identify a particular enzyme that is involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. A team of scientists has now found the missing link, which turns out to be an old acquaintance.
Jan 5th, 2013
Read moreNew York State awards $15 million to three new clean-energy 'idea incubators'
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded a total of $15 million to Columbia University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and High Tech Rochester to create three Proof-of-Concept Centers dedicated to helping inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into successful businesses.
Jan 4th, 2013
Read moreSuperconductors for efficient wind power plants
An efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator is being developed by partners from industry and science within the recently established EU project SUPRAPOWER.
Jan 4th, 2013
Read moreThe laws of global warming
How to regulate geo-engineering efforts to fight climate change?
Jan 2nd, 2013
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