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and youl probably imagine oil, grease, and an array of complicated tools. But the workshop of the future, for either the professional or home mechanic, could look much more hi-tech.

running cars on ethanol and turning its race meets into centres for recycling everything from waste engine oil to old mobile phones.

Can start-ups replace oil riches? The insular desert Kingdom of Saudi arabia lacks many things. An adequate supply of fresh water.

and of course, oil. Saudi arabia discovered oil in 1938, only six years after becoming a unified country.

It has since become the world leading exporter and producer. Petroleum accounts for over 90%of the country's exports,

In 2012, the Kingdom raked in a staggering $311bn in oil revenues as much as Iraq, Kuwait, UAE,

and innovation by kicking its oil habit, shifting away from decades of single-commodity dependency and moving towards a knowledge-based economy by 2025.

Saudi arabia robust oil endowment is being pumped into special economic cities, universities and entrepreneurship centres in every corner of the country like the King Abdulla City for Atomic and Renewable energy, near the capital Riyadh,

Norway, the world eighth-largest oil exporter, established a sovereign wealth fund (Government Pension fund Global) in 1990 to diversify oil investments

and promote other industries, in preparation for a future without oil. It been regarded as a success but aside from oil,

Saudi and Norway have very little in common. Great expectations t a big challenge, admits Mr Nawaf Al-Sahaf, chief executive of Badir,

as yet potential for solar development. t clear for the government at highest levels that oil is not sustainable.

And one day the oil will dry out, and for that day we have to be prepared. t

Design and Construction in 2014, creating a sustainable oil which can be used as fuel. Simon Park at the University of Surrey is integrating bacterial technology into building facades,

So she's following oil for us. Of course we'll continue to follow Hurricane Isaac closely for you.

and our oil use. Moving beyond conventional diesel buses Over the past several decades, cities have invested in buses that run on alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG) and diesel-electric hybrid drive trains.

Moreover, as Ie previously mentioned, driving on electricity is compared cheaper to driving on oil. The expected operating cost-per-mile of an electric bus in New york is $0. 20 to $0. 30 cents,

(and get involved yourself) by discovering why driving on electricity is a part of the UCS plan to alf the Oil.

said Transportation secretary Anthony Foxx in a statement. e are proud to initiate a new program that reflects the Obama Administration commitment to reducing our nation dependence on oil while developing more sustainable sources of energy here at home.

an environmentally-friendly hydraulic system, using water instead of oil. The project, named HYDRO-COAT-supported by a European union (EU) grant of#1. 1 million-tackles the technological challenges of switching hydraulic fluids,

Although biodegradable synthetic oils have been developed, they show lower performance, poor lubrication, higher costs, greater wear and seal compatibility problems,

and starch based products to replace the petrochemical feedstock generated from oil. To support its move into this new sector the company was able to bring in three specialist researchers under the Marie Curie scheme to fill the gaps in its knowledge.

and bio-based polymers to help it produce bio substitutes for oil-based products in bulk production chains.

and fuels that can compete on both price and performance with oil based alternatives but

and reduce the dependence on gas, coal and oil.""We all get heat from sun. We feel it on our bodies

With dwindling global supplies of oil, recycling offers a powerful means of reducing the amount of petroleum (currently standing at around 8%of global production) required to manufacture plastics, the production

With the above in mind, a European research project has developed new environmentally friendly materials that can replace oil-based plastic films used in packaging for food

Pennzoil said Pureplus Technology is patented a process that converts pure natural gas into the first-of-its-kind, high quality full synthetic base oil.

crystal clear base oil made from natural gas with fewer of the impurities found in crude oil. The oils are designed to provide coverage on five areas consumers deem as most critical for motor oil performance:

engine cleanliness, fuel economy, conservation of horsepower, wear protection, and performance in extreme temperatures s

#Factory Dairy farms on the Rise in Asia The expansion of industrial dairy farms in Asia could lead to severe consequences for the environment, public health, animal welfare and rural economies, according to a policy paper by Brighter Green.

While the low-carb dieters got 41 percent of their calories from fat most were healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats like olive or canola oil.

versus producing oil. When algae are awake they grow; when they're asleep they produce oil. roducing oil is part of the cells survival strategy

when it's under stresssays coauthor Chia-Hong Tsai a doctoral candidate in the Michigan State-department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory

and produce oil simultaneously. he secret for making this happen was CHT7 the gatekeeper that cues cells to wake up

and gives scientists a way to potentially produce high amounts of oil and biomass. In terms of human medicine this discovery gives scientists a promising new model to study tumor suppression and growth.

which could lead to better canola oil and possibly to less bitter broccoli. Published in the journal Science the findings will help scientists understand how plant genomes evolve in the context of domestication.

Broccoli cauliflower Brussels sprouts Chinese cabbage turnip collared greens mustard canola oil all these are different incarnations of the same plant genus Brassica. hole-genome sequencing efforts like this one allow us to address two fundamental

or tweak the lipid biosynthesis pathway to favorably modify the oil content in rapeseed. Being able to modify the content of bitter-tasting compounds has implications beyond

or parts of it. ith Chinese cabbage for example we don t care too much about its oil content

Research on the new material appears in the journal Nature Communications. f the oil and gas industry does not respond to concerns about carbon dioxide

or use it for enhanced oil recovery to further the release of oil and natural gas. Or they can package

Apache Corp a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and production company funded the research

which can be reused to make biodiesel from oil feedstocks. Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity.

#Cheaper membrane filters natural gas and oil Engineers have developed a new gas separation membrane that could make extracting impurities from oil and natural gases easier and less expensive.

and it has the promise of a less expensive method for producing purer oil, says Wilhite,

TURNING OURCRUDE WEETTHE oil and gas industry could stand to be one of the main benefactors of the new technology.

Both oil and gas contain impurities that have to be filtered. For example crude oil comes out of the ground with sulfur.

GQDS were derived from bituminous coal anthracite and coke a byproduct of oil refining. The coals were each sonicated in nitric and sulfuric acids and heated for 24 hours.

The outer shell of a droplet of oil on a surface has a thin skin

and has future implications in the guided delivery of oil and effective blockage of oil spreading. ur work is based on micro/nanoelectromechanical systems or M/NEMS

which can be thought of as miniaturized electrical or mechanical structures that allow researchers to conduct their work on the micro/nanoscopic levelsays Jae Kwon associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri. il-based materials or low-surface tension liquids

and spread very easily pose challenges to researchers who need to control those tiny oil droplets on microdevices. il-based compounds are referred to as low-surface tension liquids

Also as can be seen from oil spills in the Gulf of mexico oil can stick and easily spread out on any surface.

Using specially designed oil-repellent surfaces Kwon and his group demonstrated invisible irtual wallsthat block spreading of low-surface tension liquids at the boundary line with microscopic features already created in the device. ur newly developed surface helped keep oil

which is normally unmanageable in predetermined pathways making it controllable. e feel that oil-repellant surfaces can be utilized widely for many industrial applications

and virtual walls for low-surface tension liquids also have immense potential for many lab-on-a-chip devices

which are crucial to current and future research techniques. n the future oil-repellent virtual walls may be used to control the transport of oil without spillage Kwon says w

which typically relies on seismic waves to search for underwater oil and natural gas. Industryâ#efforts could be aided by network of interconnected devices working together. e could even use it to monitor fish

or photonic devices but if this can be realized on a large scale it'#going to cover a broad spectrum of applications. ltrathin h-BN protection might find a place in turbines jet engines oil exploration

Contrast that now to oil, black gold, one of the rarest of substances on the Planet Earth.

Nations will kill to secure supplies of oil. Oil is found perhaps in the most dangerous, volatile, unstable areas of the Planet Earth."

"Toyota hopes to help jumpstart this future hydrogen society by sharing its intellectual property. This week's announcement represents the first time that it's sharing patents free of charge.

Over a period of 25 years, between 1955 and 1980, more than 50 corporations left New york city, including IBM, Gulf Oil, Texaco, Union carbide, General Telephone, Xerox, Pepsico and U s. Tobacco.

researchers had to aim the device at a thin layer of oil. Although this particular iteration of the invisible 3-D shapes was designed strictly as an academic project,

The Aloha state burns oil to make electricity, and prices for the fuel have jumped in recent years,

and another leap forward in reducing our dependence on oil. It s also certainly less smelly than powering our vehicles with#poop.

#Japanese inventor finds solution to global trash problem by converting plastic to oil This Youtube video about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral

The world s oil resources are diminishing; does technology like this enable our denial of that fact,

That is more than the oil consumed by the entire African continent. Plastic s carbon footprint includes landfilling and incineration,

A Japanese company called#Blest#created a small, very safe and easy to use machine that can convert several types of plastic back into oil.

If we convert it into oil, we save CO2 and at the same time increase people s awareness about the value of plastic garbage,##says Akinori Ito, CEO of Blest.

One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kwh of electricity,

the oil produced is used for tour buses or boats, Ito says.####Plastic s carbon footprint includes landfilling and incineration,

If we were to use only the world s plastic waste rather than oil from oil fields,

but we find ourselves on top of an oil and plastic mountain, and the only way forward is down.

they are a step forward in coming to terms with our oil and plastics dependence and help raise awareness of the carbon footprint of its production and use.

with many countries opting to build large oil and coal plants to meet the demand. But for Japan, a burgeoning economy without large oil and coal reserves,

after the Fukushima disaster occurred, an in depth review concluded the most viable long-term strategy was to focus on spaced-based power systems.

The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel could one day relieve the military dependence on oil-based fuels

The Navy 289 vessels all rely on oil-based fuel, with the exception of some aircraft carriers and 72 submarines that rely on nuclear propulsion.

which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,

and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics

In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.

Traditional plastics are the children of oil. They are derived from the petrochemical process. Some take thousands of years to naturally degrade

Because oil producers do not have an economical market for low-grade vanadium, the material sits in sludge deposits.

and reduce their cost per barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). Powered by Landmark's Decisionspace next-generation earth modeling solution the workflow is unique to the industry in that it is capable of updating dynamically

#Bruker#s new products have many applications for oil and gas exploration At Analytica 2014,

It opens unique possibilities for 3d imaging and exact modeling of geological materials in oil and gas exploration, composite materials, fuel cells and electronic assemblies.

The company remote operator station called Benchremote has been designed to tackle potential safety problems with close proximity drilling in the mining and oil & gas industries.

and previously in North america if coal is replaced by oil and natural gas as an energy source, and if particulate filters in cars and factories become more common o

getting the country off oil. Obama had mentioned briefly the idea of an energy security trust in his State of the Union address in January,

Cronin and his colleagues see this as a major obstacle to a future in which hydrogen fuel replaces oil.

For instance commodity traders might pay top dollar for detailed information on the level of oil in Saudi arabia's storage facilities.

Canada has imposed other restrictions on Russia as a result of the Ukraine crisis such as economic sanctions against a Crimean oil and gas company and the expulsion of a Russian diplomat from an embassy in Ottawa.

and oil and gas industries are now using the Akselos software. The startup is also providing software for an MITX course on structural engineering.

or ridges just a few micrometers across that is then impregnated with a fluid that can be manipulated for example an oil infused with tiny magnetic particles or ferrofluid

#Separating finely mixed oil and water Whenever there is a major spill of oil into water the two tend to mix into a suspension of tiny droplets called an emulsion that is extremely hard to separate and that can cause severe damage to ecosystems.

But MIT researchers have discovered a new inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again.

and could process large quantities of the finely mixed materials back into pure oil and water.

In addition to its possible role in cleaning up spills the new method could also be used for routine drilling such as in the deep ocean as well as on land where water is injected into wells to help force oil out of deep rock formations.

Typically Varanasi explains the mixed oil and water that s extracted is put in large tanks to allow separation by gravity;

the oil gradually floats to the top where it can be skimmed off. That works well when the oil and water are already large globs of stuff already partly separated Varanasi says.

The difficulty comes when you have what is called an emulsion with very tiny droplets of oil stabilized in a water background or water in an oil background.

The difficulty significantly increases for nanoemulsions where the drop sizes are below a micron. To break down those emulsions crews use de-emulsifiers

After a while the oil just disappeared Varanasi says but people know it s hidden in the water in these fine emulsions.

It s a problem that s very challenging to the industry Varanasi says both in terms of recovering the oil

Tiny droplets of water colored blue are suspended in oil on top of a membrane developed by the MIT team.

and repels oil the droplets shrink as they pass through the membrane ultimately leaving just pure oil behind.

A similar membrane with a different coating can do the reverse allowing oil droplets to pass

either attract oil and repel water or vice versa. This allows one material to pass while blocking the other with little flow resistance Varanasi says.

or repel oil and water. The skin layer thickness can be optimized further using polymeric pore formers to enhance throughput.

Within seconds an oil-water mixture that is heavily clouded becomes perfectly clear as the water passes through the membrane leaving pure oil behind.

Oil-water nanoemulsions are ubiquitous in a number of industries and these membranes could enable rapid separation of those emulsions with high purity and efficiency.

and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi, a co-author of the research papers,

The knee now used by thousands of patients worldwide utilizes iron particles suspended in oil between steel plates

They shopped their phages to bacteria-plagued industries such as oil and water treatment, where biofilms build up in pipelines before seeing firsthand that the food industry as in desperate need of new detection technologies.

or to detect the pathogenic bacteria that sometimes cause oil to sour by changing its composition.

The goal is to reduce oil consumption with cost-effective electric drive technology where fleets don t need additional infrastructure

But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.

It has an oil problem he says. We re very dependent on oil: We rely on imports

and more than 95 percent of transportation fuel is oil. So he quit his job in 2008 with the aim of starting a company to cut oil consumption.

With rising innovations in batteries and advanced power inverters and motors Hynes backed into a technological solution with retrofitted electric powertrains.

Reconnecting with former mentor Bill Aulet now managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Hynes put the final pieces into place.

The MIT team found that they could create novel sensors by coating the nanotubes with specifically designed amphiphilic polymers polymers that are drawn to both oil and water, like soap.

high-quality fuels from low-quality oil New findings released by MIT researchers could help energy companies implement a long-recognized process for converting heavy, high-sulfur crude oil into high-value,

The process involves combining oil with water under such high pressures and temperatures that they mix together, molecule by molecule,

and the role played by the water in breaking apart the heavy oil compounds and shifting the sulfur into easily removable gases.

They have formulated also models that show how best to mix the oil and water to promote the desired reactions critical guidance for the design of commercial-scale reactors.

More than a third of the world energy needs are met using oil, and our reliance on that convenient, high-energy density resource will likely continue for decades to come, especially in the transportation sector.

In the past, oil found in the ground tended to be lightweight, clean, and easily made into high-value fuels.

Moreover, newly discovered oil contains ever-higher concentrations of sulfur, a contaminant that, when burned, produces gases that are regulated now strictly

Ordinarily, oil and water won mix, so the molecules can eeone another and chemically react.

Add oil to supercritical water (SCW) and stir, and the two will mix together perfectly,

Industrial and academic researchers have demonstrated that mixing heavy oils with SCW produces lighter hydrocarbons (compounds of hydrogen

and oil molecules react and about the flows and mixing behaviors that will produce the desired reactions and reaction products.

in some cases producing intermediate compounds that are involved then in further reactions. he challenge with SCW processing is that you have to let the oil

When oil is injected into flowing SCW, interactions between the two flows determine how mixing and heating proceed, first at the macroscale and then down to the microscale at

and oil near a eejunction consisting of a horizontal pipe with a smaller pipe coming into it from the top.

and cold oil here a sample hydrocarbon is injected into it through a vertical pipe. Figure 2 in the slideshow above shows how the SCW

and oil mix as they flow down the pipe from left to right. The walls of the circular pipe are shown not.

mixing the oil and SCW together. Moving along the pipe, the vortices break down, and mixing rates decay.

Blue regions are rich in cold oil; red regions are rich in hot SCW; and regions shown in intermediate colors have varying concentrations of the two fluids.

The oil enters the cross section at the top and water at the bottom. As the spinning vortices form, the oil is driven downward near the center of the pipe,

and the water is driven upward along the walls. In the first cross section, the interface layer between the oil

and SWC is thin and sharp. In subsequent cross sections, that layer expands and diffuses, showing the extent of the mixing.

Given design and operating details the kind of oil; pressures, speeds, and temperatures of the incoming flows;

which various oils will diffuse and mix in SCW an effect first discovered in their modeling analyses.

and upgrading technologies to create a combined system that will make it practical to continue producing high-value fuels from all kinds of oil for decades to come.

In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.

We also came up with nanostructured cleaning fluids such as oil-in-water microemulsions for the removal of dirt and unwanted coatings on works of art.

The most widely used thermal fluids are water, ethylene glycol, thermal oils and molten salts. One characteristic that is common to all of them, according to Juliá, is"their low thermal conductivity,

the nanofluid developed is based on a heat transfer oil (diphenyl/diphenyl oxide) that is widely used in industry,

where they focused on the oil wetting property. From this they developed self-cleaning surfaces under water with inspiration coming from fish skin.

but by the sum of multiple weaker forces the attraction of positive and negative charges and the tendency of nonpolar (oil-like) substances to seek each other

so particles of mud soot oil or wine stick right where they land. Over the next couple of months Ultratech a Florida-based company will roll out Ultra-Ever Dry a coating that repels most muck.

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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?

Some drugs are entirely fakenake oil, sawdust, chalk. But others, particularly those in developing countries, might contain an ineffective amount of medicine or release the right amount in the wrong way;

While the greenbacks involved are a relatively small amount compared to the trillions invested in global oil coal

Heirs to a major oil fortune are pulling their money out of the industry. The move will likely put wind under the wings of the fledging international fossil fuel divestment movement

Cargo ships which transport everything from bananas coffee grain coal heavy equipment chemicals oil and gas are the backbone of intercontinental trade

oil and its derivatives for example can double in value within weeks in the event of a oil crisis).

Jordan Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. ee one of the few countries in the middle East that doesn have oil.

fuelled by Norway's state oil revenuesivest all of its holdings in companies linked to fossil fuels.

because cleanup crews must remove more oil near the plants. The Tabasco state government urged residents to ration water

Stealing oil has become a lucrative activity among drug cartels, forcing Pemex to stop shipping finished fuel through its pipelines after discovering 3, 674 illegal taps last year.

Oil thieves cause pipeline leak, pollute Mexico rive e

#Error-correction strategy allows precise measurement of transcriptome in single cells The approach, called multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH),

#Edible Oil Producers Fight Battle Against Cheap Palm oil Imports Dewas: Rajesh Agrawal had built two large oilseed crushing mills in central India,

betting on rising local consumption of edible oils. But now after 30 years of soaring demand and good business, his main mill is shut

undermining Prime minister Narendra Modi's efforts to make the country self-sufficient in edible oils, overseas purchases

of which exceed $10 billion per year-India's third-highest such spend after oil and gold."

At the current price level other oils can't compete with palm oil, "said Nitesh Shahra, president of the refinery division of Ruchi Soya, the country's biggest edible oil refiner."

"Already our import dependency has gone up from 30 per cent to nearly 70 per cent in the last few years.

In the past 20 years, India's edible oil output has risen only about a third whereas imports have surged twelve times to 14.4 million tonnes to keep pace with growing consumption,

"Government Push For Oilseeds The finance ministry is looking into requests for a hike in import duties on crude edible oils to 25 per cent from 7. 5 per cent,

"We can't sell edible oils at higher prices due to cheaper imports and oilseed farmers are not ready to accept lower prices,

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