Dirk Inz receives the Francqui Prize for Biological and Medical Sciences 2005
...an be transformed into renewable raw materials and fuels like ethanol and bio-diesel. Combustion of bio-diesel and bio-ethanol sets the stored energy free again, with only carbon dioxide as a residual product - carbon dioxide that then can be fixed again by plants. In this way, plants can be used to actual...Ethanol and biodiesel from crops not worth the energy
...road, because you use more energy to produce these fuels than you get out from the combustion of these products." Although Pimentel advocates the use of burning biomass to produce thermal energy (to heat homes, for example), he deplores the use of biomass for liquid fuel. "The government spends more than ...Kentucky Geological Survey involved in global climate change research
...on dioxide gas captured from the burning of fossil fuels into underground geologic structures to store it rather than allow it to be released into the atmosphere. Potential geologic sites include deep saline aquifers, abandoned or depleted oil and gas reservoirs, coal beds, and organic-rich shales. The Ke...Researchers find potential Celebrex target in lung cancer
A product produced by lung cancer tumors fuels the cells that suppress immune function in patients and may be a target for Celebrex therapy, giving oncologists another weapon to fight cancer, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. Researchers found that PGE2, which...Catalyst support structures facilitate high-temperature fuel reforming
...AMPAIGN, Ill. -- The catalytic reforming of liquid fuels offers an attractive solution to supplying hydrogen to fuel cells while avoiding the safety and storage issues related to gaseous hydrogen. Existing catalytic support structures, however, tend to break down at the high temperatures needed to prevent ...Nanostructured Materials: Environmental, Energy and Sensing Applications
... sensors. The production of energy through fossil fuels combustion is a large contributor to pollution. New environmentally friendly devices for alternative production of energy must be developed to reduce environmental harm. The development of nanostructured materials can play a major role in devising ...Fire fighters, managers use new software to estimate fire hazard; air pollution levels
...federal managers is determining where the heaviest fuels exist, and how to prioritize fuel treatments acros...em to create and store fuelbeds for assigning real fuels to predict fire effects and fire behavior." The software allows fire managers to determine the amoun...Fuel cells might get hydrogen from water, organic material
...at are safe, efficient and not dependent on fossil fuels as their energy source." Abu-Omar's research team,...ould be economically viable to create organosilane fuels in the quantities necessary to power a world full of cars," Abu-Omar said. "As of right now, there s...Key regulator of blood glucose levels discovered
...e human body to a hybrid car that runs on a mix of fuels depending on its activity status: gas, or glucose, is used for high-energy activities, and battery power, or body fat, for low-energy activities. During the day, when food refuels the "gas tank," the body burns mainly glucose, and during sleep, it bu...MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels
...e perspective on vegetation growth. Forget fossil fuels and nuclear plants: on a global scale solar power is the dominant source of energy. Across land and sea, our world's plant life uses the process called photosynthesis to convert incoming sunlight into chemical energy, along the way producing all the ...NSF awards 19 new projects to better undestand genetic processes in plants of economic importance
...ply more than 5,000 items in our daily lives--from fuels and paper to fruit and medicines. Studying trees has challenged researchers, in part because of the plants' large sizes and long life cycles. Three projects are developing and using genomic tools to better understand tree metabolism and development.......l sources of energy will be required. Fossil fuels will remain our most important source for the next 50 years, despite a growing role for renewable energy. Clean systems, including carbon capture and storage, should be pursued urgently. Nuclear fission energy is a proven and reli...Joslin Diabetes Center launches $100 million fundraising campaign
...cal School. "An investment in the Joslin Campaign fuels a dynamic engine of discovery - for years, Joslin researchers have been making breakthroughs that have improved lives and made direct progress toward a cure." The announcement comes on the heels of an alarming new report by the U.S. Centers for Dise...Logging may hinder forest regeneration, increase fire risk
...ture, because of the "pulse" of easily-burned fine fuels and waste wood left behind on the forest floor aft... absence of post-fire logging, we would expect the fuels to fall to the ground over some protracted period, as opposed to the single pulse of high fire risk ...Ancient greenhouse emissionspossible lessons for modern climate
...a high-stakes climate experiment by burning fossil fuels that release heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The outcome of that experiment is uncertain and computer models can do only so much to predict the future. So scientists have been paying increasing attention to the geologic past, sear...ASPB supports the President's research initiatives
...ion a major segment of the nation's transportation fuels sector away from imported gasoline, to domestically grown, cleaner burning biofuels," Dr. Thomashow said. "As DOE and USDA reported in April of last year, with advances in research, we can transition from having one in fifty cars on America's roads...Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone
...rsial theory has nothing to do with burning fossil fuels and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the apparent rise in average global temperature recorded by scientists over the last hundred years or so could be due to atmospheric changes th...Biggest physics meeting of the year
... energy, and could be a good alternative to fossil fuels for many applications. Speakers in session G5 will discuss the possibilities, recent developments, and challenges involved in the use of solar energy. First, Nathan Lewis of Caltech will present an estimate of the fossil fuel available, and will eva...3-D imaging to enable clean energy technologies
...tudies the processes for converting coal to liquid fuels and chemicals, in order to optimize the energy con..., the way to convert coal or natural gas to liquid fuels is in high-temperature, highpressure reactors," Fan said. "But if we're going to develop processes t...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2006
...ty global climate change and devising ways to burn fuels more cleanly and efficiently. For more information about the conference, visit http://www.scidac.org/Conference2006 or e-mail conference@scidac.org . [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] BIOSENSORS -- Advanced water sentinel ....