#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.
Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
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.
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,
Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
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.
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,
#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
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."
and may also serve as storage systems of this gas. It is a novel technology since it uses graphene for the first time as a support of organometallic compounds.
#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.
an inert material obtained by the incomplete combustion of certain petroleum products. Prior to the team's research, the quantity and dimensions of the carbon black nanoparticles weren't considered particularly crucial to a battery's function."
which blocks fire's access to its fuel source--the polymer. The synergistic combination of both these processes makes polydopamine an attractive and powerful flame retardant.
#Archaeal Gas Vesicle Nanoparticles Hold Potential to Develop Powerful Malaria Vaccine In a recent breakthrough to combat malaria,
Shiladitya Dassarma's laboratory at the University of Maryland School of medicine, Baltimore, USA, who has developed Archaeal gas vesicle nanoparticles (GVNPS.
Globally, several clean energy policies and regulations have been implemented over the past decade to reduce the consumption of higher carbon fossil fuels.
There is a growing adoption of tank level monitoring system in various sectors, such as oil & fuel
In 2014, the oil & fuel application was the largest segment of the global tank level monitoring application market,
bacteria could be reprogrammed to convert readily available sources of natural energy into pharmaceuticals, plastics and fuel products."
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
If there are defects in a nuclear plant or an oil pipeline, we would be able to detect cracks that have a range of sizes
such as gas chromatography or mass spectroscopy. hese are good ways to detect smell molecules, but they require a large amount of work before the sample is even ready to test,
Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
Fuel choice is important, especially as one consideration for any future hypersonic fleet will be to try to keep its emissions as low as possible.
This is why hydrogen was chosen, rather than a fuel based on hydrocarbons. What more, liquid hydrogen fuel is not highly combustible mid-flight.
Although hydrogen can be ignited, the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuel.
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
hence there won't be a pool of hydrogen on the ground as is the case for kerosene.
Hydrogen, like kerosene, needs an igniter or a heat source to initiate combustion so it doesn't ignite spontaneously,
which simulates speeds up to Mach 1. 8. Hytex uses liquid hydrogen both as a fuel
The fuel consumption is one-fifth that of rocket engines, says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research.
If the hydrogen can be sourced from natural gas, instead of from the electrolysis of water, the airfare tickets of a hypersonic trip could drop to about half the price of a business-class ticket.
An alternative fuel could be liquefied natural gas such as super-cold liquid methane; when stored as a liquid it needs far less space than gas. f a market for small business jets existed,
While the design consumes two times more fuel per second than a Mach 4 plane, it gets to the destination in roughly half the time so the fuel consumed overall during the trip is roughly the same.
A question of heat Dealing with heat will be a real concern. Anything travelling at Mach 5
we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller, Steelant says.
Precisely because there will be a shortfall in electricity generation as a result of existing nuclear-and coal and gas-power stations shutting down.
In theory, it could simply increase power generation from traditional fossil fuels such as coal and gas, but stringent, legally-binding carbon dioxide emissions targets mean this is not possible.
There is some room for an increase in gas-generated power but as we import most of this gas,
the government has concerns about energy security-it wants us to generate our own power, not rely on others for it.
Because of their surrounding habitat and the lack of readily available fuel mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires.
Tiny"microbubbles"of gas boosted the power of the low-frequency sound waves.""The microbubbles grow and shrink in tune with the ultrasound pressure waves,
is characterized by a cluster of confounding symptoms that include chronic bloating, abdominal pain, gas, and bouts of relentless diarrhea, constipation, or both.
and fuels using genetically engineered bacteria-such as common E coli -while safeguarding the"microbial workers"from infection by other microbes and pathogens."
gas-generating calcium carbonate micro-particles that can be applied in powder form to stop critical bleeding.
The particles work by releasing carbon dioxide gas, like antacid tablets to propel them toward the source of bleeding.
and Israel that Tehran successfully reverse-engineered before turning it into their own cyber weapon to destroy the servers of Saudi arabia's national oil and natural gas company.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
and oil and gas pipelines) had been attacked by Russian hackers using Blackenergy malware, ABC reported. It was not the first time hackers tried to cripple vital US infrastructure in 2012,
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
Based on artificial photosynthesis, the process uses sunlight and carbon dioxide to make the building blocks for renewable plastics as well as fuels, paints,
Theye beginning to pop up in renewable fuel and reenchemical applications, and the one involved in the new artificial photosynthesis study is one of those.
Aside from producing renewable fuel and other products, you can use it to sequester waste carbon dioxide from industrial processes.
which don produce power on demand as a fossil fuel power plant does. For an individual consumer, having a battery behind the meter provides a great deal of flexibility in managing energy use.
Today, fossil fuels still dominate. However, the revolution is only now picking up steam. In fact, if we continue on at our current growth rate,
Beyond the obvious benefits of minimizing traditional fossil fuel energy technologies, the report also concludes that such a scale up of renewables in Africa s an affordable means to help meet fast-growing energy demand while increasing energy access, improving health,
which reacts with the inner platinum surface of the micromotors to generate a stream of oxygen gas bubbles that propel the micromotors around.
"If the micromotors can use the environment as fuel, they will be more scalable, environmentally friendly and less expensive,"said Kaufmann n
Indeed, every rocket engine ever made has fired burning rocket fuel out behind it, thus powering the craft forward.
says Mr Shawyer. nce you no longer have to carry fuel with you, the possibilities are immense.
The new material also promises to improve automotive fuel economy because it combines light weight with heat resistancealthough syntactic foams have been around for many years,
powered by electricity instead of petrol. A 10.4 kilowatt-per-hour battery pack lasts 150 to 200 miles on a single charge, according to Lit Motors.
which are difficult to maintain, like underground buildings, motorways or oil rigs,'added Dr Jonkers.''It is extremely durable.
Canadian space firm Thoth has outlined plans for an elevator to space, potentially saving huge amounts of fuel and money that form part of the vast cost of launching rockets into orbit.
Ladee spacecraft confirms presence of the gas for the first time The presence of neon in the moon atmosphere has been a subject of speculation for decades.
Now, for the first time, scientists have confirmed the gas is not only present, but abundant on the moon. The discovery was made by analysing data sent back from Nasa Lunar Atmosphere and Dust environment Explorer,
While the gas is used in electric signs On earth, there is not enough neon to make the moon glow visibly,
the readings showed that some gas comes from lunar rocks. For example, Argon-40 comes from the decay of naturally occurring radioactive potassium-40,
Dr Benna believes this transient source of argon may be the result of enhanced outgassing-the release of a gas that was dissolved,
However, the craft lacked fuel to maintain a long-term lunar orbit or continue science operations and was sent intentionally into the lunar surface,
They throw 100 times more superheated gas, ash and rock into the atmosphere than run-of-the-mill eruptions-enough to blanket continents and plunge the globe into decades-long volcanic winters.
when they become a super-eruption, the resulting gigantic volcanic outbursts that throw 100 times more superheated gas,
Liquid-oxygen or kerosene rockets would be fired to enable the plane to rapidly climb higher in the sky
the fossil fuels burned to power the machinery, and the decomposition of organic material within the wastewater itself.
The reaction also yields excess hydrogen gas, which can be stored and harnessed as energy in a fuel cell.
The project will accept about 120,000 tons of food waste, 30,000 tons of fats, oils and greases,
Long island Compost also plans to convert the biogas to renewable natural gas that will be used to fuel its trucks on-site, reducing diesel consumption by 200,000 gallons annually.
An additional 1. 9 million gallons of diesel per year will be offset by injecting the remaining renewable gas produced by the digester into the National grid natural gas pipeline on Long island.
This will enable the gas to be used to fuel compressed natural gas vehicles in other areas. The project is part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, a statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local plans and projects.
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
began developing the material about four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil or chemical spills
#Wood instead of petroleum: Producing chemical substances solely from renewable resources Petroleum might well be replaced by wood soon
when it comes to manufacturing chemical substances. Research has made now significant progress towards using sustainable biomass, like wood, as an alternative raw material for chemical production.
The process can be as cost-effective as the conventional petroleum product-based process and is less damaging to the environment."
or xylochemical, syntheses of substances for which petroleum products are employed usually as starting materials. This new work shows that the relevant carbon skeletons can be created solely from wood-based starting materials.
"Xylochemistry could represent an important alternative to the climate-damaging use of the earth's finite resources of natural oil and gas in the production of chemicals."
because of their chemical structure, are suited better than petroleum products for many applications. It is often necessary to subject the latter to extensive transformation processes before they acquire comparable functionality."
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