Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...s that were treated produced about 20 percent more biomass on average, the researchers found. But since the amounts of available water and nitrogen nutrients varied substantially from plot to plot, using averages could be misleading. "In some areas, the growth is maybe 5 or 10 percent more, and in other ar...Renewable energy wrecks environment
...d farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the envir...sted annually. To obtain the same electricity from biomass as from a single nuclear power plant would require 2500 square kilometers of prime Iowa land. "Incre...Is nutrient loading a smaller problem than we think?
...ffects of consumers and nutrient supplies on algal biomass have often concluded that consumer (top-down) effects are greater or equal to those of nutrients. One example they cite takes on the classic model of loss of estuarine seagrass. While common understanding holds that nutrient enrichment leads to epiph...Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass
...nable bioenergy. Improving the production of such biomass is important because it should significantly ease ...or agricultural waste used as fuel. Converting biomass into biofuels can be costly and slow. Two crops, both classified as C4 perennial grasses, have been...MU researchers make discovery in molecular mechanics of phototropism
...n work toward engineering plants that produce more biomass or have increased drought tolerance, among other things. For example, we could use this information to optimize plants ability to capture light for photosynthesis, which would result in more energy capture and thus growth, or potentially agronomicall...Pairing nanoparticles with proteins
...y the researchers include catalysts for converting biomass to energy and precision "vehicles" for targeted drug delivery. The research, which was conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be published in the July 2, 2007 issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie. "Our...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
... the microbial and chemical processes that convert biomass to energy products, providing an environmental and...g the technological bottlenecks that prevent plant biomass from being used efficiently as a source of energy. The DOE estimates the United States will need to ...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...challenge through theconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels. Lignocelluose,the most abundant org...ngineering study thethermochemical and biochemical biomass conversion for power, heat,fuels, chemicals and other products. Research is also conducted onplant h...ORNL-led team wins DOE bioenergy center
...nt matter through a one-step conversion process of biomass into biofuels....UGA scientists receive $20M in federal bioenergy initiative
...nt matter through a one-step conversion process of biomass into biofuels. The DOE grant leverages considerable commitments of state and private partners. In Georgia, the Georgia Research Alliance has provided $4.5 million in matching funds in support of the new center....Virginia Tech researchers to study poplar tree as model biomass crop
...study protein-protein interactions associated with biomass production in poplar wood. The U.S. Department of ... and use of alternative fuels. Poplar is a model biomass crop, said Eric Beers, associate professor of horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sc...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
...y significant asset financing activity in wind and biomass as well as the waste sectors. Investments in China came from across the spectrum, from venture capital through to public markets, reflecting the countrys increasingly prominent position in renewable energy; India lagged a little behind China but...Energy and Agriculture Departments provide $8.3 million in funding for biofuels research
...t begun in 2006 to conduct fundamental research in biomass genomics that will provide the scientific foundation to facilitate and accelerate the use of woody plant tissue for bioenergy and biofuels. The program was announced at last years Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance, a confere...Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space
...IS data to determine global estimates of Sargassum biomass and its contribution to ocean productivity. "So far, we have found two things (Sargassum and Antarctic superblooms) that have never been seen from space before," said King. "It is really very exciting."...New screening method to help find better biofuel crops
... State University agronomy professor and expert in biomass crop systems. While the scope of this project will be used to study biofuel crops, Smith said the technology could also be used to study other plant materials, such as those used for pharmaceuticals. Smith has been using the Raman imaging technol...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
...lysis, which involves heating green waste or other biomass without oxygen to generate renewable energy. Tim ...ltural productivity. "When applied at 10t/ha, the biomass of wheat was tripled and of soybeans was more than doubled," said Dr Van Zwieten. "This percentage ...Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
...ing polysaccharides, or sugary carbohydrates, from biomass to directly produce low-cost hydrogen for the new ...s, lab divisions, and universities. "Pairing our biomass conversion capabilities with facilities for studying renewable hydrogen production in the lab's Chem...BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
...roduction of cellulosic biomass, investigations of biomass composition and structure, plant deconstruction, pretreatments, enzymes, fermentations, integrated systems, process design and economics, life cycle studies and other related areas. Like all of BioMed Centrals journals, Biotechnology for Biofuels......environmental management more on functions such as biomass turnover rate and less on the structure and biomasss of populations per se. In her thesis Doroszuk shows that contributions from various research disciplines are crucial for insight into underlying mechanisms of the response to stress and for the con...