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Algae Might Replace Some U.S. Oil Imports
?Main Image: A June 2010 photo shows raceway ponds in Southern California was taken by the QuickBird satellite. A PNNL study shows that 17 percent of the United States’... More »
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Changing Plant Characteristics to Make Biofuels
A Predictable Change A new technique can change a plant's characteristics to make biofuels. A core objective of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's BioEnergy... More »
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Fuels From an Ancient Crop
?Main Image: Chemical engineer Akwasi Boateng (right) and mechanical engineer Neil Goldberg (center) adjust pyrolysis process conditions while chemist Charles Mullen... More »
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Are Biofuels Crops Sustainable?
A Sustained Effort New crops produce biofuels, but are they sustainable? Established in 2007, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Bioenergy Science Center (BESC)... More »
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Compatibility: Biofuels and Existing...
But Are They Compatible? New biofuels must be compatible with America's existing transportation infrastructure. The ultimate goal of ORNL's BioEnergy Science... More »
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Spiral Pine Needle Cookstove
Spiral Pine Needle Cookstove Challenge In Uttrakand, India, wood fuel is a scarce commodity, as it is illegal to cut branches from the government-owned pine trees. The... More »
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Lebônê Dirt-Powered Battery
Lebônê Dirt-Powered Battery Challenge 500 million people in Africa live without power. How does it work: Ordinary soil contains large number of ... More »
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Microbial Electrosynthesis: Carbon Dioxide and...
This article appeared first in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology operating under the terms of the Creative Commons... More »
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Turning Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel
Crops for biodiesel contain between 4% and 62% extractable vegetable oil by weight. Oil is extracted physically, in a mechanical press, or chemically, by the use of an organic... More »
Turning Plant Sugar into Ethanol
Last Updated on 2012-08-22 at 14:54
Today, a vintner creating the next great cabernet, a moonshiner making whiskey, and an engineer processing biomass employ brewer’s yeast, the fungus Saccharomyces... More »
Cellulosic biofuels
Last Updated on 2012-06-05 at 20:57
Cellulosic biofuels are fuels produced from cellulose (fibrous material) derived from renewable biomass.
This article was derived from Congressional Research... More »
Biomass conversion into fuels
Last Updated on 2012-06-03 at 15:07
Introduction
Biomass, a source of renewable energy, is organic biological material such as wood, wood waste, municipal solid waste, straw, sugar cane, algae, and many... More »
Fuels From an Ancient Crop
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:22
?Main Image: Chemical engineer Akwasi Boateng (right) and mechanical engineer Neil Goldberg (center) adjust pyrolysis process conditions while chemist Charles Mullen... More »
Compatibility: Biofuels and Existing Transportation...
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:17
But Are They Compatible?
New biofuels must be compatible with
America's existing transportation infrastructure.
The ultimate goal of ORNL's BioEnergy Science... More »
Changing Plant Characteristics to Make Biofuels
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:17
A Predictable Change
A new technique can change a
plant's characteristics to make biofuels.
A core objective of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's BioEnergy... More »
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