McBride shows DNA detective work with paper-eating bacteria that 'glide'
The eco-friendly fuel ethanol is usually made from grain, but the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) would like to find other renewable materials that will be cost-effective alternatives, such as paper pulp, sawdust, straw and grain hulls. A UWM professor recently helped DO...Filling a niche -- role of Rb in mammalian stem cells
...ast stem cells of the placenta will also certainly fuel the emerging hypothesis that stem-like cells may serve as a repository in which tumor suppressor function is critical to prevent cancer....Green Chemical Reactor Engineering -- XI
...s together with the important expected progress in fuel cell development and manufacturing will move us progressively, in the 21st century, from environmentally friendly carbon-based fuels to hydrogen. Environmental Research. Mitigation of the effect of chemical process effluents in soil, air and water a...New study links western wildfires to Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures
...pact of some severe fires by eliminating potential fuel sources, Veblen said. But the effectiveness of such practices pale in comparison to the potential of climatic factors. "The driving factor influencing wildfires is overwhelmingly climate variation, which is why studies like these are crucial," he ...NASA data helps pinpoint wildfire threats
...ted and mapped two key factors: plant moisture and fuel condition - or greenness - defined as the proporti...f live to dead plant material. Moisture levels and fuel condition, combined with the weather, play a major role in the ignition, rate of spread, and intensi...The National Academies' Distinguished Speaker Series runs Jan. 17-March 21, 2007
...hael Ramage explores how using hydrogen as a major fuel could transform the U.S. energy system. Using only domestic resources, the potential exists for replacing gasoline with hydrogen over the next half century. This shift could increase energy security and eliminate almost all CO2 from vehicular emissio...Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
...ce of McMurdo Sound to allow the annual supply and fuel ships to reach McMurdo. During the transit to McMurdo Station, the Oden is operated by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. NSF is chartering the ship to conduct its annual Antarctic ice-breaking operations. The ship's departure from Punta Are...Nalco Company and Argonne National
... in technology have the potential to reduce fossil fuel power plant water withdrawal and consumption, lead...ased power plants have re-emerged as the preferred fuel type in new plants to be built in the next decade. Increasingly, water management has become a cruci...Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants
...rically difficult to remove. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive recently linked to thyroid deficiency in women, has contaminated more than 450 wells in California alone. Nitrate contamination, which results mainly from the use of nitrogen fertilizer, is a leading cause of shutdowns of wells and public wa...Study reveals clean air challenge for major Asian cities
...ealth guidelines. However, the use of high sulphur fuel content in some countries may result in an increase in emissions. Emissions of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter, mainly from the transport sector, are of concern in all cities currently experiencing rapid motorization. In addition, trop...Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war
...y allowing the government to ship civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India. Critics of the Senate plan argue that it would augment Indias nuclear arsenal and spark a regional arms race with Pakistan and China. "Not only do we have a higher probability of the use of nuclear weapons, they are much mo...ORNL aids diesel parts manufacturers
...tory requirements while achieving state-of-the-art fuel efficiency and decreasing our oil dependence," said Roger England, Catalyst Elements Leader for Cummins, Inc. In another project for Industrial Ceramic Solutions, based in Knoxville, Tenn., HTML used its scanning electron microscope to analyze mate...MIT: Engineered yeast speeds ethanol production
...rt of the U.S. energy supply. Currently used as a fuel additive to improve gasoline combustibility, ethanol is often touted as a potential solution to the growing oil-driven energy crisis. But there are significant obstacles to producing ethanol: One is that high ethanol levels are toxic to the yeast tha...Engineered yeast speeds ethanol production
...t of the U.S. energy supply. Currently used as a fuel additive to improve gasoline combustibility, ethanol is often touted as a potential solution to the growing oil-driven energy crisis. But there are significant obstacles to producing ethanol. One is that high ethanol levels are toxic to the yeast tha...Mixed prairie grasses are better biofuel source, U of M study says
...ce of biomass for producing sustainable, bio-based fuel to replace petroleum. A new study led by David T... research associate Clarence Lehman, estimate that fuel made from this prairie biomass would yield 51 percent more energy per acre than ethanol from corn gr...Global warming will reduce ocean productivity, marine life
... atmosphere and converts it into organic carbon to fuel nearly every ocean ecosystem. Compared to terrestrial land plants, however, phytoplankton use a very small amount of biomass to convert large amounts of carbon, because they are eaten by predators about as quickly as they grow. The entire global phyt...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 29, 2006
...n using sunlight to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel from ordinary water. Michael Gratzel and colleagues in Switzerland note that nature found this Holy Grail of modern energy independence 3 billion years ago, with the evolution of blue-green algae that use photosynthesis to split water into its compon......ing them with a nearby, convenient source of food, fuel wood, and timber for construction and fences. By ...nd "yield effect" of USD$92 million. Annual diesel fuel savings would amount to a half-billion litersequivalent to a reduction of nearly 1.3 million tons in...Genetically engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen
... of novel ways of creating hydrogen gas for use as fuel in the future. Professors Tsuchida and Komatsu from Waseda University, Japan, in collaboration with Imperial College London, synthesised a large molecular complex from albumin, a protein molecule that is found at high levels in blood serum, and por...Special ES&T issue examines effects of emerging contaminants on people, planet
...1, 1-dimethylhydrazine), a compound used in rocket fuel production. As a result, NDMA and a co-contaminant, perchlorate, which also is used in rocket fuel and munitions, often infiltrate ground water near aerospace facilities. However, Valentine Nzengung,...