In 1924 Otto Warburg showed that cancer cells produced far more energy from glycolysis than did normal cells.
and though breast cancer gets some of its energy from glutamine it gets even more from glycolysis.
and pancreatic cancer glutamine appears to be the primary energy source. Nagrath director of Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases said the new metabolic analysis indicates that ovarian cancer may be susceptible to multidrug cocktails particularly
Dr Oliver Berkowitz a Research Associate in the ARC Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology and the School of Plant Biology at the University of Western australia was involved also in the research.
so subsidies can provide a needed boost to make the investment worthwhile said study lead author Avery Cohn an independent fellow at the UC Berkeley Energy Biosciences Institute and a graduate of the Department of Environmental science Policy and Management.
and researcher at the Air pollution Unit of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Sustainable Economic Development has been involved in a number of food pilot projects in Italian schools.
It's exciting to learn that metabolites excreted by the host can play a role in triggering this system in bacteria said Thomas Metz an author of the paper and a chemist at the Department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The findings come from a collaboration of scientists led by Scott Peck of the University of Missouri that includes researchers from Missouri the Biological sciences Division at PNNL and EMSL DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
On the energy front the findings will help scientists grow plants that can serve as an energy source
Now an atomic-scale examination of the thin-film solar cells led by the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory has answered this decades-long debate about the materials'photovoltaic efficiency increase after treatment.
A research team from ORNL the University of Toledo and DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory used electron microscopy and computational simulations to explore the physical origins of the unexplained treatment process.
Their comparatively low historical efficiency in converting sunlight into energy however has limited the technology's widespread use especially for home systems.
Controlling the grain boundary structure says Li is a new direction that could help raise the cell efficiencies closer to the theoretical maximum of 32 percent light-to-energy conversion.
The Advanced Energy Consortium supported the research. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Rice university.
Hispanics are also the number one users of energy drinks/shots sports beverages and 100 percent juice/juice drinks (Packaged Facts 2013b.
while maintaining energy throughout the day. Kid-Specific: Almost half of America's 32 million moms who say they always buy health foods/drinks for their kids are looking for a wider range of healthy convenient kid-friendly foods/drinks with nutrient
and the combined consumer sales of sports nutrition supplements nutrition bars and energy drinks topped $24 billion in 2012 up 11.2 percent (NBJ 2013e).
Millennials are also the most likely to believe that functional foods/beverages can be used in place of some medicines (NMI 2012) to relieve tiredness/lack of energy retain mental sharpness with aging stress and eye health.
The U s. Department of energy has provided more than $1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels including ethanol made from corn stover.
The team found that removing crop residue from cornfields generates an additional 50 to 70 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule of biofuel energy produced (a joule is a measure of energy
--which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.
but it results in a smaller biofuel energy yield Liska said. To mitigate increased carbon dioxide emissions
which was funded through a three-year $500000 grant from the U s. Department of energy used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North america Europe Africa and Asia.
What landowners should knowcumulative habitat loss encroachment by invasive woody plants wind energy development petroleum production
and energy said Dr. Fred Davies senior science advisor for the agency's bureau of food security.
Food issues could become as politically destabilizing by 2050 as energy issues are today. Davies who also is a Texas A&m Agrilife Regents Professor of Horticultural Sciences addressed the North american Agricultural Journalists meeting in Washington D c. on the monumental challenge of feeding the world.
Most greenhouse gases come from burning fossil fuels to produce energy although deforestation industrial processes and some agricultural practices also emit gases into the atmosphere according to the Environmental protection agency.
Greenhouse gases act like a blanket around Earth trapping energy in the atmosphere and causing it to warm.
but because the energy sector is contributing more. IPCC Assessment Reports Backgroundthe IPCC was started in the late 1980s
In addition however agriculture's use of fossil energy could be reduced as a mitigation step Rice said:
and use less tillage we're also using less energy. We can make agriculture more efficient
and more profitable in this way because energy is a significant cost. So it has the benefit of reducing emissions direct and indirect and therefore increasing profitability.
Robinson is working with the coal-mining company Solid Energy New zealand and The swiss Federal Institute of technology to determine
Energy balance disturbedthe researchers used an advanced computer model based on realistic projections of the speed and the spatial pattern of deforestation to forecast changes in the Congo Basin climate The study also maps the region's vegetation mix
-poor forests spend a lot of energy--carbon--through mechanisms to acquire nutrients from the soil whereas nutrient-rich forests can use that carbon to enhance biomass production.
For one thing plants in nutrient-poor soils devote more energy to locating nutrients. When plants are in nutrient poor conditions they send out more roots
This takes energy though and so the plants produce less biomass says Obersteiner. Furthermore the study showed that nutrient-rich ecosystems also generally have more stable ground organic material
Hertwich was one of the lead authors of the Energy Systems chapter. One of the main causes of greenhouse gas emissions is coal power Hertwich says.
Five pages 500 commentshertwich's contribution as one of the lead authors of the Energy Systems chapter amounts to roughly 5 pages.
when it comes to energy sources Hertwich said. The world is making significant investments in renewable energy
which in turn is making renewables cheaper and easier to bring to market. What I found was really surprising was the rate at
when solar power was more of a novelty source of energy for individuals who were too far from power lines to get conventional electricity from the grid.
Co-located solar-biofuel systems could be a novel strategy for generating two forms of energy from uncultivable lands:
This approach could allow us to produce energy and agriculture with the same water. But which crops to use?
or food or energy sometimes leads to creative solutions said Lobell who is a coauthor on the new study.
Propanol would actually be a higher energy-density fuel than ethanol but right now there is no efficient way to produce it.
For the process to be carbon neutral scientists will have to find a new way to make carbon monoxide from renewable energy instead of fossil fuel the primary source today.
Materials with high electron mobility are preferred often to reduce power consumption and heating in microelectronic devices.
Researchers at the U s. Department of energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory who are co-authors on this paper conducted critical radiotracer studies that support the new theory that plant sugars play a dominant role in regulating branching
Brookhaven plant biologist Benjamin Babst and Brittany Wienclaw who was a summer intern as part of the DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program at Brookhaven
Relevance to Bioenergybrookhaven's role in this research was funded by the U s. Department of energy's Office of Science
The above story is provided based on materials by DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory. The original article was written by Karen Mcnulty Walsh.
and energy expenditure) between males and females in modern farming populations is much more variable than in foraging groups.
The research is by Dr Derrick Bennett Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford UK and colleagues.
and biofuel a breakthrough that will mean using fewer chemicals less energy and creating fewer environmental pollutants.
Currently the lignin must be removed a process that requires significant chemicals and energy and causes undesirable waste.
We're designing trees to be processed with less energy and fewer chemicals and ultimately recovering more wood carbohydrate than is currently possible says Mansfield.
Methane fuels life in pristine chalk riversscientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that naturally high concentrations of the greenhouse gas methane contributes to energy production in chalk rivers in a new study
It's a surprise to find methane is such a big source of energy in these gin-clear waters famed for their luxuriant plant growth said co-author Professor Mark Trimmer Head of the Aquatic Ecology Group at Queen Mary
In the riverbed of the Lambourn the contribution of energy derived from methane to the food web varied seasonally peaking in the summer
We used to think energy from the breakdown of chemicals was only substantial in dark places where photosynthesis is impossible like deep oceans.
In the comprehensive study scientists from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&es) and the University of Washington's College of the Environment evaluated a range of scenarios including leaving forests untouched burning wood for energy
because scrap wood and unsellable materials could be burned for energy replacing fossil fuel consumption. Wood-based construction consumes much less energy than concrete or steel construction.
Through efficient harvesting and product use more CO2 is saved through the avoided emissions materials and wood energy than is lost from the harvested forest.
This study shows still another reason to appreciate forests --and another reason to not let them be cleared permanently for agriculture said Chadwick Oliver the Pinchot Professor of Forestry
if higher evaporation rates from the added energy and humidity in the atmosphere is considered. An increase in evaporative drying means that even regions expected to get more rain including important wheat corn
Healthy plants convert light to energy via photosynthesis but chlorophyll also emits a fraction of absorbed light as fluorescent glow that is invisible to the naked eye.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy and transportation sectors currently account for the largest share of climate pollution.
Beef and lamb account for the largest agricultural emissions relative to the energy they provide. By 2050 estimates indicate that beef
and serves as our primary energy source. However excessive consumption of sugars (simple carbohydrates) can cause life-style-related diseases such as obesity and diabetes.
They spend a lot of energy on detoxifying and that comes with a cost: The worms do not reach the same size as other worms
because they spend their energy on ridding themselves of the pesticide the researchers Ph d. student Nicolas Givaudan
In the not adapted worms we saw that their energy reserve of glycogen was used faster.
They also increased their feeding activity possibly to compensate for the increase in energy demand the researchers said.
because they need to spend more energy on detoxifying the researchers say. They also weighed the worms in the experiment
The EU is planning to extend its specific sustainability criteria based on greenhouse gas emissions for biofuels to renewable energy produced from solid biomass.
On one hand the gap may decrease interest in this considerable source of renewable energy in many European countries.
and the needs of agriculture energy water resources finance transport industry trade and cities. In this way REDD+would add value to other initiatives such as agroforestry projects that are being implemented within these sectors
Each bead carries an intrinsic energy that contributes to the strand's distinct energy landscape
and agriculture to health and energy--the researchers took the so-called CH2011 Scenarios as their starting point for the future development of temperature and precipitation in Switzerland.
The energy generated by the sun and transferred to the fiber-optic cable system--similar in some ways to a data transmission line--can heat up the reaction chamber to over 600 degrees Fahrenheit to treat the waste material disinfect pathogens in both feces and urine and produce char.
and provides energy comparable to that of commercial charcoal. Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals
Tests have shown that each of the eight fiber-optic cables can produce between 80 and 90 watts of energy meaning the whole system can deliver up to 700 watts of energy into the reaction chamber said Linden.
and energy on our team and the Gates Foundation values that Linden said. It is one thing to do research another to screw on nuts and bolts
because we have a high interest in developing countries and expertise in all of the renewable energy technologies as well as sanitation.
and energy cycles and yet do not attract the interest levels that tropical rainforests do.
Energy flows from the bottom of an ecosystem up the ladder to human society. Even today many people in Mongolia live just like their ancestors did.
We see this technology as a significant step in moving the United states toward energy independence. The technology developed by ORNL's Chaitanya Narula Brian Davison
Preliminary ORNL analysis in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado shows the catalytic technology could be retrofitted into existing bio-alcohol refineries at various stages of ethanol purification.
The ORNL research was supported by DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable Energy. Initial funds were from the ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and development and Technology Innovation programs and from the Bioenergy Science Center
which is supported by the U s. DOE Office of Science. Vertimass LCC is based in Irvine Calif. The mission of Vertimass LLC is to develop
and improve energy security and domestic economies. Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.
A study led by Joshua Pearce of Michigan Technological University has shown that making your own plastic 3d printer filament from milk jugs uses less energy--often a lot less than recycling milk jugs conventionally.
which collects and processes plastic locally turning milk jugs into filament at home uses about 3 percent less energy.
Then the energy savings skyrocket to 70-80 percent. And recycling your own milk jugs uses 90 percent less energy than making virgin plastic from petroleum.
Pearce also compared the cost of making your own filament with buying it. Filament is retailing for between $36
Some 32 million students eat school meals every day for many low-income students up to half their daily energy intake is from school meals.
#Amazons canopy a patchwork quilt of chemicals generated by plantsin many ways plants act as chemical factories using energy from sunlight to produce carbon-based energy
But the emerging standard global food supply described by the study also consists of energy-dense foods that have risen to global fame more recently like soybean sunflower oil and palm oil.
and using it as a renewable energy source. The methane bubbling up from a single palm oil wastewater lagoon during a year is roughly equivalent to the emissions from 22000 passenger vehicles in the United states the analysis found.
but capturing wastewater methane leaks for energy would be a step in the right direction. The global demand for palm oil has spiked in recent years as processed food manufacturers have sought an alternative to trans fats.
We have redesigned also the electronics to minimise noise so that the units are highly sensitive at low power.
and can be topped up by a small wind generator and solar cells during summer. When running the radar draws 5 watts of power the same as a low-energy light bulb;
standby power is 1 milliwatt. The units also boast antenna arrays--Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO--different from the Wifi router philosophy)--that allow the researchers to construct 3d images of the ice.
The research was funded by the European Research Council Academy of Finland Center of Excellence U s. Department of energy and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
and can save irrigation water labor energy and fertilizer. The authors of a report published in Horttechnology said that the use of sensor-based irrigation technology can also accelerate container and greenhouse plant production time.
Sensor-based irrigation systems substitute capital for water and associated inputs such as energy labor and fertilizer the authors explained.
#Drone shows new view of energy coal ash spillaerial images captured by a drone aircraft provide a new look at the extent of contaminants leaked into a North carolina river from a Duke energy coal ash dump as concerns about water pollution grow
A drone aircraft operated by researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Energy Environment
Funding for this project was provided by Wake Forest University's Center for Energy Environment and Sustainability.
and produce more milk when they eat energy-rich diets that include grain supplements or improved forages.
Danish research institutions and DONG Energy (denmark) have great focus on how to produce bioethanol from otherwise useless crop residues such as straw.
The team will present its latest findings Tuesday (Feb 25) at the U s. Department of energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D c. Biodiesel is attractive
#Sustainable use of available energy wood resources in Northwest Russia promises significant social, economic opportunitiesnowadays humanity faces many challenges;
Intensification of forestry in Russia will result in increasing availability of wood for material and energy uses.
A doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Eastern Finland analyzed the potential of energy wood resources in the Leningrad region of Russia at regional and district levels.
The study discovered significant potential for the intensification of energy wood supply in the Leningrad region of Russia.
Maximization of sustainable energy wood supply will create new working places and business opportunities. However several challenges like low productivity of felling operations and technical accessibility of forests have to be solved to intensify energy wood supply in the regions.
The availability of energy wood depends on the actual volumes of annual fellings and is affected by technical socioeconomic and climatic issues.
These factors were considered when three scenarios of wood availability were analyzed to compare the efficiency of wood supply chains to estimate employment effects of forest chip production
The impact of climate change on the technical accessibility of forests and harvestable volumes of industrial and energy wood was analyzed also.
The Recent scenario reflects the potential of energy wood taking into account the intensity of fellings
The Allowable scenario shows the potential of energy wood assuming full utilization of the annual allowable cut based on current logging technology
The''Potential''scenario shows availability of energy wood resources in the case of intensified forest management which means a significant increase in thinnings full utilization of annual allowable cut based on
The analysis showed that intensification of forestry in the region could significantly increase availability of energy wood.
In the scenario Allowable the availability of energy wood increased from 4. 1 to 6. 3 Mm3(+54%)compared with the scenario Recent.
In the scenario Potential the total volume of available energy wood would be 9. 2 Mm3(+124%compared with scenario Recent.
The employment effect from the utilization of energy wood depended on the availability scenarios and the type of chipper used.
The study area has large available volumes of energy wood but their utilization is limited by technical and economic factors.
and local authorities predict economic and social effects from the utilization of energy wood. Story Source:
In a paper published February 19 2014 in the journal Nature Communications researchers from Rutgers University the Department of energy Joint Genome Institute and several other facilities detailed the complete genome
Messing estimates that duckweed will be a viable biofuel source within the next five years and points to Ceres Energy Group in New jersey
but oils would have greater energy than ethanol. Classical breeding or genetics does not apply here because of its clonal propagation
This genome was sequenced as part of a DOE Office of Science JGI Community Science Program (CSP project (formerly the Community Sequencing Program.
The above story is provided based on materials by DOE/Joint Genome Institute. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and the plant's energy status. But there is much about the transport proteins involved in the process that isn't understood.
The contribution of the cap is the elastic curvature energy and then you just forget it Penev said.
One is the energy portion dictated by the catalyst; another one may be the energy of the caps per se.
So to get the big picture we address the energy of the caps and basically rule it out as a factor in determining chirality.
A nanotube is an atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons and rolled into a tube.
This study showed the energy involved in configuring the cap is reasonably flat he said.
'and animals'widely different forms evolved in parallel as ideal ways to solve the problem of how to use energy efficiently.
Named after The swiss biologist Max Kleiber who formulated it in the 1930s the law fits observations on everything from animals'energy intake to the number of young they bear.
and animals are remarkably displaying equivalent energy efficiencies. They are both equally fit. And that is what Kleiber's Law is showing us.
convert sunlight to energy and move it within a body that more or less stays put. To make that task as efficient as possible the tree has evolved a branching shape with many surfaces--its leaves.
and heat as their mass changes to maintain the greatest possible energy efficiency. That is why animals need a pump--a heart
obstacles to using silicon for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries say its inventors at Stanford university and the Department of energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
The anode or negative electrode is where energy is stored when a battery charges. Silicon anodes could store 10 times more charge than the graphite anodes in today's rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
The above story is provided based on materials by DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
The research was supported by the Department of energy the National Science Foundation the Robert A. Welch Foundation Teijin Aramid BV the Air force Office of Scientific research and the Department of defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
#Environmental impact of Ontario corn production assessedresearchers at the University of Guelph examined the energy use
The study reports estimated county-level energy and GHG intensity of grain corn stover and cob production in Ontario from 2006-2011.
According to the paper's authors most of the energy used during corn production comes from the use of natural gas
and energy intensity of corn production helps identify opportunities for efficiency and aids in improving the GHG mitigation potential of corn-derived renewable fuels continued Jayasundara.
and improving energy efficiency during corn production can be achieved through the use of field-drying corn hybrids reduced tillage and diminished nitrogen inputs.
The article Energy and Greenhouse Gas Intensity of Corn (Zea mays L.)in Ontario: A regional assessment by Susantha Jayasundara Claudia Wagner-Riddle Goretty Dias and Kumudinie Kariyapperuma is available Open Access in the Canadian Journal of Soil science.
and radically enhance energy generation delivery and storage. Scientists tweak these superconductor recipes by swapping out elements
Now researchers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have combined atoms with multiple orbitals
The experimental work at Brookhaven Lab was supported by DOE's Office of Science. The materials synthesis was carried out at the Chinese Academy of Sciences'Institute of Physics.
The above story is provided based on materials by DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
's signature findings--a mysterious ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of our solar system that appears to be a directional roadmap in the sky of the local interstellar magnetic field.
Using measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic rays on a global scale we now have a completely different means of verifying that the field directions we derived from IBEX are consistent says Nathan Schwadron lead scientist for the IBEX Science
Establishing a consistent local interstellar magnetic field direction using IBEX low-energy neutral atoms and galactic cosmic rays at ten orders of magnitude higher energy levels has wide-ranging implications for the structure of our heliosphere
and is an important measurement to be making in tandem with the Voyager 1 spacecraft
The cosmic ray data we used represent some of the highest energy radiation we can observe
and are at the opposite end of the energy range compared to IBEX's measurements says Schwadron.
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