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#U k. Supermarket To Run on Electricity Made From Its Own Rotting Food One U k. grocery store plans to power itself using biogas harvested from its own unsold, rotting produce.
which is fed by a combination of coal, natural gas, nuclear power plants and other sources. Sainsbury's will even sell any excess electricity it makes back to the grid.
during the last step, bacteria produce primarily carbon dioxide and methane gas. The Biffa plant separates the methane from the carbon dioxide,
then uses the resulting biomethane just like natural gas mined from the ground to produce electricity.
A 1. 5-kilometer-long cable carries the electricity back to the Cannock Sainsbury's store.
fossil fuel-produced carbon dioxide is considered different because that CO2 would have stayed in the ground, had a human not dug it up
Even hours later fires caused by kerosene and solid propellant were still burning. Unlike Spacex which is almost completely vertically integrated Orbital outsources most of its components and focuses on system integration and design.
Antares is a two-stage rocket and in its first stage it uses a pair of liquid propellant motors originally designed (and constructed!)
and adapt to the world around them#Â Then in an interview in February company founder Sir James Dyson (pictured) suggested a robotic cleaner might be in the pipeline
The robot fish is able to swish from side to side as onboard gas inflates
Cargo ships which transport everything from bananas coffee grain coal heavy equipment chemicals oil and gas are the backbone of intercontinental trade
and the shipping industry represents an annual estimated average of more than#300bn worldwide. According to the International Shipping#Facts and Figures report published by the International Maritime Organisation there were 103 392 commercial ships in service by January 2011.
oil and its derivatives for example can double in value within weeks in the event of a oil crisis).
the other will conduct commercial environmental monitoring in the Arctic circle assist emergency response teams in oil spill monitoring
Jordan Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. ee one of the few countries in the middle East that doesn have oil.
We also lost our gas supply (from Egypt) for electricity. Jordan government had to replace gas with diesel at five times the cost.
Facing that crisis kicked the country into high gear. he government went straight into a macroeconomic stability program
We removed all subsidies on fuel products, offered incentives for hybrids and encouraged an aggressive diversifying approach.
Surprisingly, the researchers at MIT and Eni, the Italian energy company, achieved this new approach to solar energy not with high-tech materials
and 14 collaborators at MIT, Eni, and Italian universities. Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering, explains that in photosynthesis,
The project started at a workshop held at Eni laboratories in Novara, Italy. Lloyd and Belcher, a professor of biological engineering, were reporting on different projects they had worked on,
along with Eni researchers, the possibility of a project encompassing their very different expertise. Lloyd, whose work is pointed mostly theoretical
The current prototype is quieter than a neighbor mowing the lawn with a gas-powered motor."
The research team says it confirmed a black hole in the galaxy's center by measuring the speed of the gas swirling around it.
The Mars Curiosity rover, for instance, has detected methane on the surface of Mars, as well as other chemical signatures suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
and establish guidelines to accept electricity first from the most efficient and lowest-polluting fossil fuel generators,
and reused for future applications. f the micromotors can use the environment as fuel, they will be more scalable, environmentally friendly and less expensive, Kevin Kaufmann,
it would be easier to compete with fossil fuels. In CAES, the surplus energy from solar and wind installations to compress air into the caverns
Instead, they used gas to push the chemical components together. It worked! The result was a transparent glass nearly as strong as steel
and burning biofuels and storing the emitted carbon dioxide underground. These may sound farfetched, but the Intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded last year that reaching a key emissions goaloughly equivalent to limiting warming to 2°C by 2100ould rely on the deployment of one or several CDR technologies.
#A new look at superfluidity MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field.
Within this magnetic field, the researchers could keep a gas superfluid for a tenth of a second just long enough for the team to observe it.
the researchers were able to keep the superfluid gas stable for a tenth of a second.
either through a mechanical plunger or compressed gas to produce a more uniform flow, and thus a more uniform width to the extruded filament of glass.
and service providers to add this enzyme to their CRISPR pipeline and services, further ensuring availability of this new enzyme to empower research.
while the natural gas, solar and wind industries together created nearly four times that amount, according to a new Duke university study.
as well as operations and maintenance jobs in resource extraction and fuel transportation. Data for solar and wind generator operations and maintenance jobs were provided by the industries themselves.
and natural gas industries were derived using a model that analyzed year-to-year economic activity and energy production occurring within each sector of the two industries to estimate gains or losses in employment that supported electricity generation.
Currently, ceramic composites consisting of ionic and electronic conductive components like those in this study are under consideration for membrane separation devices that provide oxygen for enhanced conversion of coal and natural gas
as well as for membrane reactors used in natural gas conversion and recovery y
#Go greener: Norway to clean up sovereign wealth fund Norway said Friday it would bar its state pension fund, the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund,
fuelled by Norway's state oil revenuesivest all of its holdings in companies linked to fossil fuels.
which are simpler in design, quieter and more environmentally friendly than conventional compressed-gas systems currently used."
This"solid state"cooling process is significantly more energy efficient than the conventional, compressed gas systems currently on the market today."
and air conditioning that can reduce the use of harmful gas fluorocarbons.""We are excited about the potential applications that are available for Dr. Stadler's technology,
argon gas is introduced. In the presence of a large voltage the argon becomes ionized and vaporizes the metals through sputtering.
Creating the alloy particles in the gas phase provides a host of benefits. The conventional solution-based approach often results in clumps of the different metals
Furthermore, the kinetically limited gas-phase approach also enables the deposition of intermediate species that would react away in solution."
One such instrument is the gas chromatography system used in a number of scientific, medical,
has used a National Science Foundation award to develop a credit-card-sized gas chromatography platform that can analyze volatile compounds within seconds."
He explained that the research community has pursued more actively"the hybrid integrated approach"for the development of micro gas chromatography system
"The manual assembly of the individual components is really a cumbersome job and increases the overall weight and footprint of the micro gas chromatography system.
the hybrid integrated approach is inconsistent with the purpose of micro gas chromatography research since further improvement in terms of size, cost,
and performance can be achieved by the single chip or monolithic integration of micro gas chromatography components"he added.
and Dr. Hamza Shakeel (Rawalpindi, Pakistan), developed a unique gas chromatography-on-chip module.""The experimental results are really encouraging
"The gas chromatography on-a-chip provides highly efficient separations and detection, reduced analysis times using temperature and flow programming,
as well as fast detection response times suitable for high-speed gas chromatography.""The system's reliability was also impressive.
#Oil spill leaves half million Mexicans without water The city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state closed schools on Wednesday to protect the health of students following the incident.
Thieves tapped an oil pipeline operated by state-run energy firm Pemex on Sunday, causing a spill that affected local rivers
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.
The thefts have caused other environmental disasters in the past and a deadly explosion in December 2010, when an illegal tap caused a blast that killed 29 people in the central town of San martin Texmelucan.
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),
#Novel online bioinformatics tool significantly reduces time of multiple genome analysis UK research collaboration develops a new bioinformatics pipeline that enables automated primer design for multiple genome species
Scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) and John Innes Centre have developed a bioinformatics pipeline
A fast polyploid primer design pipeline"is published in Bioinformatics s
#Tiny terahertz accelerator could rival huge free-electron lasers Physicists in the US, Germany and Canada have built a miniature particle accelerator that uses terahertz radiation instead of radio waves to create pulses of high-energy electrons.
#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,
"Our oilseed and edible oil production will not rise unless we restrict cheaper imports.""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,
and to 45 per cent on the refined variety from 15 per cent, government sources said.
"We can't sell edible oils at higher prices due to cheaper imports and oilseed farmers are not ready to accept lower prices,
#MIT Physicists Create a Superfluid in a Record-High Magnetic field Physicists from MIT have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field.
Within this magnetic field, the researchers could keep a gas superfluid for a tenth of a second just long enough for the team to observe it.
In the end, the researchers were able to keep the superfluid gas stable for a tenth of a second.
affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic systems (CALDES), reported a tunable band gap in BP,
Like graphene, BP is a semiconductor and also cheap to mass produce. The one big difference between the two is BP natural band gap
allowing the material to switch its electrical current on and off. The research team tested on few layers of BP called phosphorene
which is an allotrope of phosphorus. Keun Su Kim, an amiable professor stationed at POSTECH speaks in rapid bursts when detailing the experiment,
therefore we tuned BP band gap to resemble the natural state of graphene, a unique state of matter that is different from conventional semiconductors. he potential for this new improved form of black phosphorus is beyond anything the Korean team hoped for,
the whole accretion disk made of surrounding hot gas would glow in ultraviolet rays. Instead, the ultraviolet glow of the dusty disk abruptly drops off toward the center.
The infalling gas fuels the black holesngine triggering outflows and gas turbulence that incites a firestorm of star birth.
The binary black holes are predicted to spiral together and collide within a few hundred thousand years. Mrk 231 is located 600 million light-years away.
either through a mechanical plunger or compressed gas to produce a more uniform flow, and thus a more uniform width to the extruded filament of glass.
but the lure of fewer accidents, reduced fuel costs not to mention less human error have generated excitement in the trucking industry as well as the transportation safety sector.
The savings in fuel costs would come from the truck's ability to accelerate and decelerate more gradually than humans normally do.
These findings could one day lead to super-dense low-power circuits as well as ultra-sensitive biosensors and gas sensors, the investigators added.
and ultra-sensitive and low-power biosensors and gas sensors to enhance the Internet of things. However, Banerjee cautions that TFETS are designed not for speed
Kingsmore 26-hour diagnostic pipeline starts with the machines that do the brute-force work of sorting through an individual baby genome.
To meet the demand for food, fuel and fiber from a growing and increasingly affluent population,
software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines, survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property,
Plenty of companies need to inspect factories and pipelines monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land.
Industrial applications in everything from medical and pharma to oil and gas are huge s
as well as spikes of methane. It has also roved into an ancient streambed where liquid once flowed,
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles, "said Mingzhe Yu, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State.
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles, "said Mingzhe Yu, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State.
They're made from a carbon seed placed in a microwave chamber with methane or another carbon-containing gas and superheated into a glowing plasma ball.
That creates particles that crystallize into diamonds, a process that can take 10 weeks. The technology has progressed to the point that experts need a machine to tell synthesized gems apart from those extracted from mines or rivers.
#Now, a car powered by whisky residue Scientists in Scotland have become the first in the world to produce biofuel capable of powering cars from residues of the whisky industry.
Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables plans to build a production facility in central Scotland after manufacturing the first samples of biobutanol from by-products of whisky fermentation.
The company has been awarded £11 million to fund a new plant to make the biofuels. Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
He said""The technique could transform the Scottish whisky industry and generate up to £100 million of transport fuel a year."
"The latest biofuels use low value waste products to produce high value fuel and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
A bacterial fermentation process known as Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) produces acetone, n-Butanol, and ethanol from starch.
ABE fermentation was developed first in the UK a century ago, but died out in competition with the petrochemical industry.
but this time for advanced biofuel production using entirely sustainable raw materials.""Julie Hesketh-Laird from the Scotch whisky Association said,
"The production of biobutanol from draff and pot ale is another example of the industry putting its by-products to a good use to promote sustainability and jobs."
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
Biobutanol is recognized now as an advanced biofuel a direct replacement for petrol. The biofuel is produced from draff the sugar rich kernels of barley soaked in water to facilitate the fermentation process necessary for whisky production and pot ale,
the copper-containing yeasty liquid that is left over following distillation. Scotland's distilleries currently produce around 750,000 tons of draff and 2 billion litres of pot ale annually
#Now, a car powered by whisky residue Scientists in Scotland have become the first in the world to produce biofuel capable of powering cars from residues of the whisky industry.
Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables plans to build a production facility in central Scotland after manufacturing the first samples of biobutanol from by-products of whisky fermentation.
The company has been awarded £11 million to fund a new plant to make the biofuels. Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
He said""The technique could transform the Scottish whisky industry and generate up to £100 million of transport fuel a year."
"The latest biofuels use low value waste products to produce high value fuel and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
A bacterial fermentation process known as Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) produces acetone, n-Butanol, and ethanol from starch.
ABE fermentation was developed first in the UK a century ago, but died out in competition with the petrochemical industry.
but this time for advanced biofuel production using entirely sustainable raw materials.""Julie Hesketh-Laird from the Scotch whisky Association said,
"The production of biobutanol from draff and pot ale is another example of the industry putting its by-products to a good use to promote sustainability and jobs."
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
Biobutanol is recognized now as an advanced biofuel a direct replacement for petrol. The biofuel is produced from draff the sugar rich kernels of barley soaked in water to facilitate the fermentation process necessary for whisky production and pot ale,
the copper-containing yeasty liquid that is left over following distillation. Scotland's distilleries currently produce around 750,000 tons of draff and 2 billion litres of pot ale annually
#Artificial'plants'could fuel future cars Scientists have taken a big step towards creating artificial'plants'that can use only sunlight to make gasoline
and natural gas to run future cars without polluting the environment. A research team has created an artificial leaf that produces methane,
the primary component of natural gas, using a combination of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. The research builds on a similar hybrid system that yielded butanol, a component in gasoline,
and a variety of biochemical building blocks. It is a major advance towards synthetic photosynthesis, a type of solar power based on the ability of plants to transform sunlight,
carbon dioxide and water into sugars. Instead of sugars, however, synthetic photosynthesis seeks to produce liquid fuels that can be stored for months
or years and distributed through existing energy infrastructure. In a roundtable discussion on his recent breakthroughs and the future of synthetic photosynthesis, Peidong Yang, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley said his hybrid inorganic/biological systems give researchers new tools
"Burning fossil fuels is putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than natural photosynthesis can take it out.
a finding that will fuel speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist to now."
and bioplastics (derived from renewable biomass sources such as corn or biogas methane). As part of a"cradle-to-cradle"approach, the researchers will explore the fate of these materials
and bioplastics (derived from renewable biomass sources such as corn or biogas methane). As part of a"cradle-to-cradle"approach, the researchers will explore the fate of these materials
promising to help us reduce our deadly carbon footprints and reliance on nonrenewable fuels, the reality is that most electric cars can only drive short distancesnywhere from 25-312 milesefore they need to be recharged.
The team took advantage of 3d printing instant feedback and rapid prototyping to experiment with new shapes, printing speeds, battery technologies, cleaner burning fuels,
said Scott Curan of ORNL Fuels, Engines and Emissions department. Their ongoing philosophy during the construction phase?
The ecological devastation from major oil spills can last for years, killing marine life and destroying the quality of one of our most precious resources,
The team began development on the material four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil spills
or biofuels when exposed to the sun. The underlying concept is that such functions will,
equipped with a natural gas-powered generator, generates that power. This energy is passed from home to car or vice versa through a bidirectional wireless power transfer system, a pad besides the structure over which the PUV parks.
Most of the existing uses for old tyres involve making low value secondary products such as asphalt, aggregate for cement, artificial reefs, footwear, plastic and rubber composites,
is a significant step toward the substitution of fossil fuels with solar hydrogen. The demand for hydrogen as a clean fuel for vehicles and other applications is expected to increase.
Unfortunately it is produced currently from fossil fuel. Conventional approaches to hydrogen production using solar-powered photocatalysts have achieved a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency of less than ten percent,
requiring improvements for real-world applications. A team of researchers led by Associate professor Masakazu Sugiyama and Project Professor Katsushi Fujii from The University of Tokyo and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka from Miyazaki University have doubled now more than the solar conversion efficiency to 24.4 percent.
They used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules, which includes a photovoltaic cell using a high-quality semiconductor crystal similar to the ones for lasers
The researchers also reduced energy loss by improving the connection between the CPV modules and electrolyzers, resulting in a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency above 24 percent t
N1 Technologies Inc. has a number of new and revolutionary Nano Engineered products currently in its development pipeline.
#N1 Technologies Seeks Patent for Non-Petroleum Nano Organic Motor oil The directors and management of N1 Technologies Inc. have filed a patent for a bio-based non-petroleum motor oil.
The company has taken renewable plant oils and added Tungsten and Carbon nanotubes to the oil blend.
The result is a"Green"motor oil that performs in many ways better than standard petroleum motor oil."
"Tests conducted on older high mileage vehicles have yielded tremendous results, one 200,000 mile engine still runs like new,"states N1 Technologies CEO Steve Lovern.
The nanotechnology engineered into the organic oil blend is the key to its ability to transfer heat,
"A biodegradable motor oil that can go toe to toe with the best petroleum motor oil is the Holy grail
and various highly viscous all natural plant oils to form Nanosave N1-Organic. Plans are in the works to seek a Green Seal Certificate in the near future.
It has proven to be one of the best selling oil products in the Nanosave N1 lineup. http://www. amazon com/nanosave Video Link:
N1 Technologies Inc. has a number of new and revolutionary Nano Engineered products currently in its development pipeline.
flow-gating mechanisms have also proved very useful for many practical applications designed by humans, such as gas and liquid separations, dialysis,
or extract materials is valuable for uses such as separating components of oil, gas and wastewater,
for example, prove especially valuable for crude oil transport, in which fuel lines frequently become clogged, leading to high costs and risk of gas accidentally escaping into the environment.
Additionally, the tunable pressurization and antifouling properties could result in more than 50-percent energy savings compared to current methods."
"Basic fluid mechanics dictate the precise extraction and output of a wide variety of liquid and gas mixtures according to easily-calculated pressure adjustments."
thereby promoting basic research in sustainable biofuels. This made the ORNL scientists to visualize several other applications.
and may also serve as storage systems of this gas. It is a novel technology
#Nanoscientists Convert Sunlight into Liquid fuel Using Nature and Technology Imagine creating artificial plants that make gasoline
and natural gas using only sunlight. And imagine using those fuels to heat our homes or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California, Berkeley, have taken a big step in that direction.
Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry at Berkeley and co-director of the school's Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute, leads a team that has created an artificial leaf that produces methane
the primary component of natural gas, using a combination of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. The research, detailed in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August, builds on a similar hybrid system, also recently devised by Yang and his colleagues,
that yielded butanol, a component in gasoline, and a variety of biochemical building blocks. The research is a major advance toward synthetic photosynthesis,
a type of solar power based on the ability of plants to transform sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars.
however, synthetic photosynthesis seeks to produce liquid fuels that can be stored for months or years and distributed through existing energy infrastructure.
"Burning fossil fuels is putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than natural photosynthesis can take it out.
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