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Scientists Find Black Gold Amidst Overlooked Data
Greenblet MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2009About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value. Likewise, NASA satellites collect thousands of images and 1.5 terrabytes of data every year, but some of it gets passed over because no one thinks there is a use for it. Scientists recently found black gold bubbling up from an otherwise undistinguished mass of ... more Lignol Suspends Colorado Project Due To Market Uncertainty 
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 20, 2009Suncor Energy Products and Suncor Energy (U.S.A.), both wholly owned subsidiaries of Suncor Energy, and Lignol have determined it prudent not to enter into a joint venture to pursue the development of a cellulosic ethanol commercial demonstration plant in Grand Junction, Colorado given the instability of energy prices, the uncertainty in the capital markets and the general market malaise. ... more Orbital And Sygma Alternative Fuel Initiatives In Brazil 
Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 20, 2009Orbital and Sygma Motors - Engenharia, Industria E Comercio de Motores Ltda of Brazil are pleased to announce that agreement has been reached on two significant engineering programs, with Vale Solutions in Energy ("VSE") as the end customer. Senior representatives of Orbital and Sygma, including Directors of Sygma Group and Sygma Motors, and the Chief Executive Officer of Orbital, have met ... more Ricardo Technology Achieves Breakthrough Efficiency For Ethanol-fueled Engines 
Van Buren TWP MI (SPX) Feb 20, 2009Ricardo has revealed the development of technology that optimizes ethanol-fueled engines to a level of performance that exceeds gasoline engine efficiency and approaches levels previously reached only by diesel engines. The technology, called Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection or EBDI, takes full advantage of ethanol's best properties - higher octane and higher heat of vaporization - to ... more ABSL Ships First Hardware From Colorado 
Longmont CO (SPX) Feb 19, 2009ABSL Space Products celebrates delivery of the first Lithium-ion battery hardware built in Colorado. This is a major milestone as ABSL has now demonstrated end-to-end Lithium-ion battery expertise by designing, building and testing hardware entirely on American soil. The Colorado team is now actively working seven separate space battery contracts using four different Lithium-ion space ... more |
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Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 19, 2009The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of forest. But those measurements don't agree with current computer models of how plants and soils behave. A University of Michigan researcher is developing a unique way to reconcile these crucial ... more Hand-Held Water Sanitizer For A Thirsty World 
Iowa City IO (SPX) Feb 19, 2009What do you do when you learn that about one-sixth of the world's population - nearly one billion people, according to UNICEF - lack clean water on a daily basis? If you happen to be one of 15 student engineers at the University of Iowa, you roll up your sleeves and design a $5, hand-held device to sanitize water and potentially save lives. Although the student invention began as a ... more Trust to save food crops from extinction 
Rome (UPI) Feb 18, 2009 Italy's Global Crop Diversity Trust says it has collected about 53,000 seed samples of the 100,000 varieties of food crops it wants to save from extinction. The biological rescue effort is designed to preserve the availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide. It involves food crops from 46 nations and is one of the largest such programs ever undertaken. "We are movi ... more MSU Scientists Speed Up Discovery Of Plant Metabolism Genes 
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 19, 2009Michigan State University researchers are dramatically speeding up identification of genes that affect the structure and function of chloroplasts, which could lead to plants tailored specifically for biofuel production or delivering high levels of specific nutrients. Chloroplasts, which are specialized compartments in plant cells, convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars and ... more Blade Switchgrass Management Guide For Bioenergy Now Available 
Thousand Oaks CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2009A new crop management guide is available for producers interested in learning more about growing switchgrass as a non-food, low-carbon source for biofuels and biopower. Published by Blade Energy Crops, a seed brand of Ceres, the guide features the latest thinking among agronomists for this multi-year crop, including criteria for seed variety selection, field preparation and planting rates ... more |
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Longmont CO (SPX) Feb 17, 2009DigitalGlobe and Nokia have agreed to bring the real-world perspective of high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery to Nokia Maps, both on mobile devices and on Ovi, improving the global driving, hiking and walking navigation capabilities for consumers who use these applications. Through streamlined technology integration and development of a proprietary format for delivering imagery to ... more Doomsday seed vault's stores are growing 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 15, 2009The stores of seeds in a "doomsday" vault in the Norwegian Arctic are growing as researchers rush to preserve 100,000 crop varieties from potential extinction. The imperiled seeds are going to be critical for protecting the global food supply against devastating crop losses as a result of climate change, said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. "These ... more Farmers May Finally Get Reliable Forecasts 
Sydney NSW (SPX) Feb 17, 2009The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) have applauded the efforts of researchers at the University of NSW who claim to have found correlating links between the Indian Ocean dipole and the weather and rainfall patterns experienced in Australia. "These findings, if verified and supported through scientific review, could be the missing piece in the puzzle for Australia's farmers and their ... more Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 15, 2009When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say. Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada. ... more EU foiled in bid to force France, Greece to allow GM crop 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 16, 2009The European Commission was foiled Monday in its bid to force France and Greece to allow genetically modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto to be grown in their fields. Food chain experts from the EU member states, meeting in Brussels, could not reach agreement on whether to back or oppose the French and Greek refusal to allow the maize, which has been given the green light to be ... more
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