Several coal mines have been proposed in the forest corridor between the Satpura and Pench tiger reserves as has the widening of a national highway (NH-7)
As chocolate is combined often with milk could it be the amount of milk/milk products consumed per head that fuels Nobel prize success?
The sweets and dairy pattern was characterized by the largest proportions of energy from baked goods milk sweetened coffee and tea and dairy-based desserts and the lowest intakes of poultry.
A piece of charcoal found directly underneath the cache was dated radiocarbon to 4800 years ago.
A second fragment of charcoal in a level above the cache was dated to 4000 years ago.
#Using lysine estimates to detect heat damage in distillers dried grains with solublesdistillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are a good source of energy and protein in swine diets.
For a 2012 study in the Journal of Proteome Research the scientists used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the amino acid composition of juice from oranges grown on HLB-positive or HLB-negative trees.
and even sponges to soak up oil. Unfortunately carbon nanotubes are also the prima donna of nanomaterials;
and low-power applications Pasquali said. Metal wires will break in rollers and other production machinery if they are too thin he said.
In the study funded by the Energy Biosciences Institute miscanthus switchgrass and mixed prairie species were compared against a typical corn-corn-soybean rotation.
I do have more energy. Wake Forest Baptist's weight-management efforts are aimed at people of all ages because of changes in behavior toward food and nutrition especially in the past 20 years.
or fuel crop plants could represent an abundant source of renewable energy according to research published in the International Journal of Automotive technology and Management.
biomass resource for the production of automotive fuels in India. The use of tree seed oils as a source could have several additional benefits over vegetable seed oils including lower viscosity and greater volatility both
of which would reduce injector fouling carbon deposits and piston ring sticking common issues with some biodiesel formulations.
and contains 50%oil which can be extracted at levels of 34 to 37%.%Sal can produce about 20%oil.
The oil is converted chemically to biodiesel using the process of transesterification which reacts the oily triglyceride content with alcohol using a catalyst.
The team has tested now successfully this chemistry on seeds from the mahua and sal trees.
Biodiesel production from tree seeds in India will not only reduce the dependence on crude oil imports
The discovery Tour said could be a boon in the cleanup of contaminated sites like the Fukushima nuclear plants damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
It could also cut the cost of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and gas recovery and help reboot American mining of rare earth metals he said.
The lab tested graphene oxide synthesized at Rice with simulated nuclear wastes containing uranium plutonium
and granulated activated carbon commonly used in nuclear cleanup. Graphene oxide introduced to simulated wastes coagulated within minutes quickly clumping the worst toxins Kalmykov said.
#Global natural gas boom alone wont slow climate changea new analysis of global energy use economics
Because natural gas emits half the carbon dioxide of coal many people hoped the recent natural gas boom could help slow climate change
But in the long run according to this study a global abundance of inexpensive natural gas would compete with all energy sources--not just higher-emitting coal
but also lower-emitting nuclear and renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar. Inexpensive natural gas would also accelerate economic growth
and expand overall energy use. The effect is that abundant natural gas alone will do little to slow climate change said lead author Haewon Mcjeon an economist at the Department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Global deployment of advanced natural gas production technology could double or triple the global natural gas production by 2050
but greenhouse gas emissions will continue to grow in the absence of climate policies that promote lower carbon energy sources.
Because gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal some researchers have linked the natural gas boom to recent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United states
Their computer models included not just energy use and production but also the broader economy and the climate system.
These integrated assessment models accounted for energy use the economy and climate and the way these different systems interact with one another.
even though it was dramatically changing the global energy system said James Jae Edmonds PNNL's chief scientist at JGCRI.
and use energy from all sources affect emissions in several ways: â#¢Natural gas replacing coal would reduce carbon emissions.
But due to its lower cost natural gas would also replace some low-carbon energy such as renewable or nuclear energy.
Overall changes result in a smaller reduction than expected due to natural gas replacing these other low-carbon sources.
In a sense natural gas would become a larger slice of the energy pie. â#¢Abundant less expensive natural gas would lower energy prices across the board leading people to use more energy overall.
In addition inexpensive energy stimulates the economy which also increases overall energy use. Consequently the entire energy pie gets bigger. â#¢The main component of natural gas methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
During production and distribution some methane inevitably escapes into the atmosphere. The researchers considered both high and low estimates for this so-called fugitive methane.
The combined effect of the three the scientists found is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production
and significant changes to the types of energy used but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.
Abundant gas may have a lot of benefits--economic growth local air pollution energy security and so on. There's been some hope that slowing climate change could also be one of its benefits
but that turns out not to be said the case Mcjeon. Scientists engineers and economists from the following institutions contributed to the research:
#Buy local firewood to prevent spread of invasive beetle, forest service saysenjoying the cooler temperatures with a warm toasty fire?
The Kansas Forest Service is asking residents to help save trees by buying their firewood locally all to prevent the further spread of an invasive beetle killing millions of ash trees.
Now it is spreading through the transportation of firewood and lumber. The adult beetles are poor flyers
Where we really see rapid movement is assisted through human movement like cutting down logs for firewood and taking them 50 miles or 200 miles away.
Towering tankers block the horizon behind a vast field of cordgrass and pickleweed. Egrets and herons soar overhead as do airplanes and helicopters.
and plants like cordgrass have to expend energy filtering and excreting the salt. So he performed a second experiment in the lab growing the cordgrass with and without scale insects in either fresh water or seawater.
and quality of cereal and bioenergy cropsa team of scientists led by Thomas Brutnell Ph d. director of the Enterprise Rent-a-car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant science Center have developed a new
and fuel said Brutnell. The technologies that our team developed to identify regulatory genes that enhance photosynthesis in C4 crops can be extended to identify control points for other processes including nitrogen and phosphate efficiency as well as a plant's response to environmental stresses like heat
Many of these are related to the efficiency of energy generation in cells. He says that studies show that the cells of those with ASD often have high levels of oxidative stress the buildup of harmful unintended byproducts from the cell's use of oxygen that can cause inflammation damage DNA and lead to cancer and other
The nonsynthetic bed bug pesticides--which contain ingredients such as geraniol rosemary oil mint oil cinnamon oil peppermint oil eugenol clove oil lemongrass oil sodium lauryl sulfate
These grassland fields can also produce ample biomass for renewable fuels. Monica Turner UW-Madison professor of zoology and study lead author Peter Blank a postdoctoral researcher in her lab hope the findings help drive decisions that benefit both birds
The adjuvants for clove oil evaluated were a petroleum oil adjuvant at 1. 25%by volume a commercial product containing 20%citric acid at a rate of 0. 375%by volume a commercial adjuvant containing 20%saponins
extracted from Yucca schidigera at 0. 03%by volume an emulsified petroleum insecticide at a rate of 1%by volume clove oil alone (no adjuvant) and a nontreated control.
and environmental taxes on electricity and gasoline is the most effective way for politicians to get consumers to understand the problems of smoking and pollution.
and gasoline in the United states. Erik Brockwell will be defending his dissertation at Ume㥠University on Friday October 10.
In the USA tobacco and environmental taxation on electricity and petroleum is an important component in explaining problems with consumption.
From analysis of US data there is a large signaling effect seen for tobacco electricity and petroleum taxation.
--An unexpected result is for petroleum consumers appear to be more willing to change their consumption patterns in response to a tax increase than previously thought.
American politicians avoid especially these days to increase the price of petroleum because it is perceived as a hot potato issue where politicians do not want to risk voters'discontent says Erik Brockwell.
Tobacco and petroleum advertising and lobbying is an issue that often ends up as a blind spot says Erik Brockwell who also investigates the effect of the state's effort to reduce consumption
and the industry's attempt to increase consumption of cigarettes and petroleum in the United states.
For petroleum the results show that producer prices and state media expenditure campaigns on television radio magazines and newspapers effectively help to cut down the consumption on petroleum.
As with the tobacco industry lobbying by the petroleum industry effectively increases petroleum consumption. A strong policy recommendation here is that the US should focus more spending on state media expenditures
and information campaigns says Erik Brockwell. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Ume㥠universitet.
Beyond improving food crops the technique could also help improve plants grown for energy production materials and other purposes.
and provide sustainable sources of energy and materials. We have feed to an ever-growing population
and we have to replace materials like oil-based fuels Bucksch said. Integral to this change will be understanding plants
#Food, fuel and more will be produced in sea farms of futuremeet the farm of the future where common seaweed is being upgraded from an environmental problem to a valuable natural resource and raw material.
and head of the Seafarm project which converts algae into eco-friendly food medicine plastic and energy.
The city of Trelleborg estimates that its beaches host an excess of algae that is equivalent to the energy from 2. 8 million litres of diesel fuel.
Even spices and cooking oil can be produced by algae. The brown algae known as sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) for example contain up to three times as much sugar as sugar beet.
It will be an energy forest at sea. We plan to build large farms on 2 hectares right from the start
Likewise the carbon efficiency of China's coal-fired power plants improved by 10 per cent
In the past decade China has maintained at least an 8 per cent annual GDP propped up by the construction of railroads highways power grids and housing.
and acetone and also found in fuel products and tobacco smoke; and the wood preservative mixture pentachlorophenol.
Cumene is a flammable and volatile liquid with a gasoline-like odor. It is a natural component of coal tar
and petroleum and is found in tobacco smoke. It is used primarily to make acetone and phenol.
It can be found in emissions from petroleum products. Inhalation exposure to cumene caused lung tumors in male and female mice and liver tumors in female mice.
or discontinuous pathways that pose a serious drawback when using blended systems known as bulk heterojunction donor-acceptor or positive-negative (p-n) junctions for harvesting energy in organic
solar cells. Briseno's research group is one of very few in the world to design
He says This work is a major advancement in the field of organic solar cells because we have developed
The breakthrough in morphology control should have widespread use in solar cells batteries and vertical transistors he adds.
and engineers have placed great effort in trying to control the morphology of p-n junction interfaces in organic solar cells.
and like grass blades they are particularly effective at converting light to energy. The advance not only addresses the problem of dead ends or discontinuous pathways that make for inefficient energy transfer
but it also solves some instability problems where the materials in mixed blends of polymers tend to lose their phase-separated behavior over time degrading energy transfer the polymer chemist says.
Also materials in blended systems tend to be amorphous to semi-crystalline at best and this is a disadvantage
and the ability to efficiently convert light into energy. The technique is simple inexpensive and applicable to a library of donor
We envision that our nanopillar solar cells will appeal to low-end energy applications such as gadgets toys sensors and short lifetime disposable devices.
but they dont always worksugars are usually known as energy storage units in plants and the insects that feed on them.
Modern and highly sensitive mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods showed that the benzoxazinoid identified in the larval frass was no longer identical to the substance in the plant leaves.
and clayas more gardeners and farmers add ground charcoal or biochar to soil to both boost crop yields and counter global climate change a new study by researchers at Rice university
since support from the National Science Foundation the Department of energy Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.
and more severe as a result of fire suppression that allowed forest fuels to build up in the past century is still prevalent among some said CU-Boulder geography Professor Thomas Veblen a study co-author.
and fuel build up said Schoennagel. This matters because high-severity fires are dangerous to people kill more trees
or run off into the environment less use of heavy equipment water labour and fuel. Dr Hogendoorn says adoption of the technique will have the additional benefit of building up the honey bee industry
These were used to identify 17 genes that are involved in energy metabolism endocrine and autoimmune regulation.
The LA megacity sprawls across five counties 150 municipalities many freeways landfills oil wells gas pipelines America's largest seaport mountains and even dairies all within an area
Urbanization has concentrated more than half of Earth's population at least 70 percent of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions and a significant amount of methane emissions into a tiny fraction of Earth's land surface.
The world's 40 largest cities combined rank as the world's third largest emitter of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide--larger than the total emissions of Japan.
There's an urgent need to get a handle on explosive growth in carbon emissions from fossil-fuel use by cities
and some states produce annual inventories of their greenhouse gas emissions based on energy statistics and other data but the same information is typically not available for individual cities.
Another wrinkle for scientists is being able to distinguish between emissions generated from fossil fuel use
And while climate warming will continue with the addition of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere due to human activities (fossil fuel combustion land-use clearing) previous assumptions about a positive soil carbon cycling feedback to future warming
but also for biofuels production since the same sugars can be fed to yeast to generate ethanol and other liquid fuels.
Cann also is a microbiology professor and a principal investigator at the Energy Biosciences Institute. Dodd is now at Stanford university.
resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center supported by the Office of Science of the U s. Department of energy under Contract No.
#Trees that can increase biomass productionthanks to biotechnology researchers at UPM have increased the production of woody species. This result is of great interest to the energy market.
These results are of great interest for the energy market. The biotechnological procedure used by these researchers can guarantee the biomass sustainable production yields of woody species without affecting food demand.
and to enhance energy security. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Universidad Politã cnica de Madrid.
However it takes energy to produce and maintain these nodules hurting the ability of the plant to grow
Along the west coast of North america winds lift deep nutrient-rich water into sunlit surface layers fueling vast phytoplankton blooms that ultimately support fish seabirds and marine mammals.
male birds invest about 3%of their daily metabolic energy budget in train growth. Story Source:
and energy crops worldwide including staples such as maize rice soybeans and wheat. They simulated the impact of climate change on agricultural production over the course of the 21st century
#Reduced energy density in foods can create healthier food environment, may help to reduce obesityon the heels of new research showing that 16 major food
of weight or energy density as a contributing factor for weight gain and obesity. The Society goes further to urge food companies to test
and market foods that will help individuals reduce the energy density in their diets and better manage body weight.
This obesogenic environment is characterized by large portions of tasty inexpensive energy-dense foods that are easily accessible in convenience stores vending machines
and energy content of foods. Examples of foods high in energy density that can lead to consumption of excess calories include those high in sugar like ice cream
and those high in fat including deep-fried foods such as French fries and cheese. Foods low in energy density
and recommended for a healthy diet are those that have a high amount of nutrients per serving including fruits and vegetables nonfat milk whole grains and fish and other lean proteins.
As detailed in the position statement a diet reduced in energy density can accommodate a wide range of eating patterns
A key component to reduced energy density is the amount of water in our food
and volume without adding energy or calories and can make us feel more satiated. A growing body of evidence indicates that increasing the water content in foods can reduce energy intake
and improve diet quality continued Dr. Rolls. For example I will feel more full after eating 100 calories of strawberries
cuts to foods coming from products high in energy density including: sweets and snack foods; fats oils and dressings and;
carbonated soft drinks. In a second study published in the same issue researchers tie the effort back to a decline in the calorie content of purchases by American families
and call for more research to continue to track its success. We applaud the efforts of the member companies for their work to cut calories from foods high in energy density
Food and beverage companies can take these efforts a step further with a closer look at the energy density of their products.
http://www. obesity. org/publications/energy-density-of-foods-influences-satiety-a-total-caloric-intake. htmstory Source:
The material would replace a bulky and energy-hungry metal oxide framework. The graphene-infused paint worked well Tour said
Modelling was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) of diabetes incidence in quintiles of energy adjusted dietary intakes.
The model included adjustments for age sex season diet assessment method version total energy intake BMI leisure time physical activity smoking alcohol consumption
and opportunities to consume energy-dense foods such individuals may be more likely to become overweight or obese.
Left to their own devices carbon nanotubes form clumps that are perfectly wrong for turning into the kind of strong conductive fibers needed for projects ranging from nanoscale electronics to macro-scale power grids Earlier research at Rice by chemist
Advances in hydraulic fracturing put trillions of dollars'worth of previously unreachable oil and natural gas within humanity's grasp.
and oil due to fracking said Stanford environmental scientist Robert Jackson who led the new study.
and horizontal drilling compares well with conventional energy sources the study finds. Fracking requires more water than conventional gas drilling;
or nuclear fuel to generate electricity it saves water. From mining to generation coal power consumes more than twice the water per megawatt-hour generated than unconventional gas does.
Unconventional drilling's water demand can be better or worse than alternative energy sources the study finds.
Photovoltaic solar and wind power use almost no water and emit no greenhouse gas but cheap abundant natural gas may limit their deployment as new sources of electricity.
On the other hand fracked gas requires less than a hundredth the water of corn ethanol per unit of energy.
Fracking's impact on both climate change and local air pollution is similar to its impact on water finds the study The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Getting a fractured well going is more intense than for conventional oil and gas drilling with potential health threats arising from increases in volatile organic compounds and air toxics.
But when natural gas replaces coal as a fuel for generating electricity the benefits to air quality include lower carbon dioxide emissions than coal and almost none of the mercury sulfur dioxide or ash.
How oil and gas companies handle wastewater--fluid used to fracture the shale that flows back up the well
and water unleashed with the oil and gas--shows the importance of state policies. Wastewater disposal is one of the biggest issues associated with fracking said co-author Avner Vengosh a professor of geochemistry at Duke university.
however if energy companies follow basic guidelines and undertake careful monitoring The study highlights several policies
Now an international research team led by ASU scientists has developed a new approach to estimate CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels--one that provides crucial information to policymakers.
Called the Fossil fuel Data Assimilation System or FFDAS this new system was used to quantify 15 years of CO2 emissions every hour for the entire planet--down to the city scale.
The FFDAS uses information from satellite feeds national fuel accounts and a new global database on power plants to create high-resolution planetary maps.
The research team combined information from space-based nighttime lights a new population database national statistics on fuel use
whether strategies to reduce greenhouse gases are said effective Jennifer Morgan Director of the Climate and Energy Program at World Resources Institute.
The study also finds that the majority of this illegal destruction was driven by overseas demand for agricultural commodities including palm oil beef soy and wood products.
In addition to devastating impacts on forest-dependent people and biodiversity the illegal conversion of tropical forests for commercial agriculture is estimated to produce 1. 47 gigatonnes of carbon each year--equivalent to 25%of the EU's annual fossil fuel
And in the forests of Indonesia 80%of deforestation was illegal--mostly for large-scale plantations producing palm oil and timber 75
of which wind up in cosmetics or household goods (palm oil) animal feed (soy) and packaging (wood products).
Export Agriculture a Key Driver of Illegal Deforestationaccording to the report the international trade in agricultural commodities (beef leather soy palm oil
The study estimates that almost 40%of all palm oil 20%of all soy nearly 33%of tropical timber
Nearly one-fifth (17%)of Brazilian beef 75%of Brazilian soy and 70-80%of the palm oil and plantation wood and pulp from Indonesia were destined for foreign markets.
Natural repellants such as clove oil citronella lemon grass eucalyptus castor oil peppermint lavender and cedar oil all work to a limited extent Pitts said
and black-footed albatross are facing increasing levels of oil contamination plastic pollution and greatly reduced amounts of prey fish due to commercial fishing operations.
and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels said WMO Secretary-general Michel Jarraud.
and termites) and about 60%comes from human activities like cattle breeding rice agriculture fossil fuel exploitation landfills and biomass burning.
-UNESCO) the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) of the International atomic energy agency (IAEA).
otherwise occur because of fossil fuel combustion. Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake alters the marine carbonate system and lead to increasing acidity.
(IOC-UNESCO) the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) of the International atomic energy agency (IAEA.
and a Rice alumnus now a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory These bonds would not trap
This is a good property for application in solar cells he said. Two-D phosphorus could potentially be used to harvest sunlight as its band gap matches well with the solar spectrum.
The Department of energy supported the research. The researchers used the Data analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure supercomputer supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology as well as NSF's XSEDE and the Department of energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center supercomputers.
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