However the energy industry will not act until the price is right. We have seen all it
Norway possesses major unexploited energy resources in the form of these branches and tops--known in their Norwegian acronym as GROT (see Fact-box).
Secondly this powder can be pressed into pellets with a high energy content per unit of weight and volume;
and gene-family expansion in genes associated with energy metabolism and oxygen transmission indicating that gene categories involved in energy metabolism appear to have an important role for Tibetan antelope via efficiently providing energy in conditions of low partial pressure of oxygen (PO2).
Further research revealed that both the Tibetan antelope and the highland American pika have signals of positive selection for genes involved in DNA repair and the production of ATPASE.
energy sources has been achieved. Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis
. While artificial leaf is the popular term for such a system the key to this success was an artificial forest.
Solar technologies are the ideal solutions for carbon-neutral renewable energy--there's enough energy in one hour's worth of global sunlight to meet all human needs for a year.
In natural photosynthesis the energy of absorbed sunlight produces energized charge-carriers that execute chemical reactions in separate regions of the chloroplast Yang says.
and push the energy conversion efficiency up into single digit percentages. This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.
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#Students diet and physical activity improve with parent communicationscollege students eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more on days when they communicate more with their parents according to researchers at Penn State.
Also known as elephant grass miscanthus is one of a new generation of renewable energy crops that can be converted into renewable energy by being burned in biomass power stations.
Beginning around two million years ago early stone toolmaking humans known scientifically as Oldowan hominin started to exhibit a number of physiological and ecological adaptations that required greater daily energy expenditures including an increase in brain
Demonstrating how these early humans acquired the extra energy they needed to sustain these shifts has been the subject of much debate among researchers.
According to researchers hominins at KJS met their new energy requirements through an increased reliance on meat eating.
Instead the nuclei were excited to higher energy levels producing gamma rays that flew out in a specific pattern that revealed the pear shape of the nucleus. In the very biggest picture we're trying to understand everything we've observed directly
and switchgrass appear to be promising resources for renewable energy but these new crops did not come with a manual on how to measure details on their sustainability impacts.
Jody Endres University of Illinois professor of energy and environmental law and chair of the Council on Sustainable Biomass production (CSBP) says standards are needed
The European Renewable Energy Directive provides a baseline framework for sustainability reporting and requirements. They're primarily concerned with land conversion--high carbon stock land
'In the war of words and in the public media biofuels have had to face more accusations than any other renewable energy source such as solar power
or climate mitigation benefits or that we're having increased energy security people may still be suspicious of biomass fuels
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This research was supported by the U S. Department of energy's Office of Science. Explore the#oeclimate Analog Tracker#an online tool that enables users to see how climates may shift in the decades to come.
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and energy for our rapidly growing global population. That's the conclusion of 12 leading plant biologists from around the world whose laboratories recently discovered important properties of plant transport proteins that collectively could have a profound impact on global agriculture.
Nitrogen fertilizer production consumes one percent of global energy usage and poses the highest input cost for many crops the scientists write.
and energy demands and the need for sustainable yield gains. In addition to Schroeder and Sanders the co-authors of the paper are Emmanuel Delhaize of CSIRO in Canberra Australia;
The ASC program provided time on Sequoia to the LLNL-Rensselaer team as the capabilities tested have potential relevance to NNSA/DOE missions.
--if they don't some fish may not have enough energy to survive. Neill has been working at Tanguro Ranch since 2007 with collaborators from Woods Hole Research center Brown University the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and the University of SãO Paulo.
#Recipe for low-cost, biomass-derived catalyst for hydrogen productionin a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Energy
& Environmental science researchers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory describe details of a low-cost stable effective catalyst that could replace costly platinum in the production of hydrogen.
and abundant molybdenum metal produces hydrogen in an environmentally friendly cost-effective manner potentially increasing the use of this clean energy source.
Dubbed artificial photosynthesis this process mimics how plants convert those same ingredients to energy in the form of sugars.
The students became excited about using familiar materials from their everyday lives to meet a real-world energy challenge Chen recounted.
thus accelerating the electron transfer rate for the chemical desorption of hydrogen from the catalyst further reducing the energy required for the reaction to take place Sasaki said.
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Researchers from the Center of Plant Genomics and Biotechnology at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory report as an advance
which included Lydia Finney and Stefan Vogt from the APS used high-energy X-rays from the 8-BM and 2-ID-E beamlines of the APS to track the distribution of minute iron
This is the first high-energy X-ray analysis of plant-microbe interactions. X-rays such as those from the APS provided a high sensitivity to elements and a high spatial resolution not attainable by other means.
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which requires substantially less water and energy to produce. Soy-based proteins are a common pet food ingredient
At the same time methane is a growing source of energy and aggressive methane mitigation is key to avoiding dangerous levels of global warming.
We used free-energy profiling and geometric analysis in these candidate zeolites to understand how the distribution
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#Turning algae into clean energy and fish food; helping Africans to irrigate cropscould algae that feast on wastewater produce clean biofuels and a healthful supply of fish food?
Additional resources were contributed by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center the Shell Gamechanger Program and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
Geosciences and Biosciences Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of energy. Chen was supported partially by the China Scholarship Council.
which can be explained only partly by the high energy content of this snack he said.
Although carbohydrates and fats also were a source of high energy the rats pursued the chips most actively and the standard chow least actively.
and physiology of the hangover at a symposium Chemistry of the Bar which connects with the ACS meeting's core theme The Chemistry of Energy and Food.
She says there's a high energy cost associated with common lawn-care methods such as mowing irrigation
and fossil fuel energy expended to keep lawns looking lush consumes so much energy that it counteracts the soil's natural carbon sequestration abilities.
whether you can reduce the amount of energy you need to make a lawn pretty
and land use change and our energy choices (such as biofuels oil sands and shale gas). In this talk we discuss the drivers affecting water sustainability
Now researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) through support from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) have shed literally new light on cellulase catalysis. Using an ultrahigh-precision visible light microscopy
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#Giving plants the right amount of lightenormous amounts of energy are wasted in greenhouses where our food is grown
The technology has enormous potential for energy savings says Torsten Wik. We are counting on being able to save about 30 per cent by switching from sodium lamps to LED.
#Microalgae produce more oil faster for energy, food or productsscientists have described technology that accelerates microalgae's ability to produce many different types of renewable oils for fuels chemicals foods
Solazyme's patented microalgae strains have become the workhorses of a growing industry focused on producing commercial quantities of microalgal oil for energy and food applications.
Instead of sunlight energy for the microalgae's growth comes from low-cost plant-based sugars. This gives the company a completely consistent repeatable industrial process to produce tailored oil at scale Sugar from traditional sources such as sugarcane
It also wastes energy fertilizers pesticides and other resources used in the food supply. Supplying more food however is only part of the challenge Floros emphasized.
The demand for sustainable energy may divert more cropland to production of crops for biofuel production.
In the long run the United states will need sustainable biofuels he said citing the importance of national energy policies that foster parallel development and commercialization of biofuels.
and conclude that those of the same colour must also contain lots of energy-rich nectar.
UAVSAR uses a technique called interferometry that sends microwave energy pulses from the sensor on the aircraft to the ground.
As for how this happened the prevailing theory holds that massive stars in the early galaxies produced an abundance of high-energy ultraviolet light that escaped into intergalactic space.
when we looked at galaxies nearby the high-energy radiation doesn't appear to make it out.
#Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy marketa team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost environmentally friendly fuel source
The U s. Department of energy says that hydrogen fuel has the potential to dramatically reduce reliance of fossil fuels
but not affiliated with this project said this discovery has the potential to have a major impact on alternative energy production.
and energy companies are working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the future Zhang said.
The energy stored in xylose splits water molecules yielding high-purity hydrogen that can be utilized directly by proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
Even more appealing this reaction occurs at low temperatures generating hydrogen energy that is greater than the chemical energy stored in xylose and the polyphosphate.
This results in an energy efficiency of more than 100 percent--a net energy gain. That means that low-temperature waste heat can be used to produce high-quality chemical energy hydrogen for the first time.
Other processes that convert sugar into biofuels such as ethanol and butanol always have energy efficiencies of less than 100 percent resulting in an energy penalty.
We think this discovery is a game-changer in the world of alternative energy. Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Additional resources were contributed by the Shell Gamechanger Program the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
Geosciences and Biosciences Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of energy. The lead author of the article Julia S. Martin Del Campo who works in Zhang's lab received her Ph d. grant from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology.
All diets contained the same amounts of energy standardized ileal digestible indispensable amino acids and digestible phosphorus. Fat content was held not constant across diets;
and energy source forestry and grazing practices evolved and reforestation and habitat regeneration occurred in parts of the their former range the bears rebounded.
because capturing CO2 with conventional technology is an energy-intensive process that can consume as much as one-quarter of the high-pressure steam that plants use to produce electricity.
Hirasaki's team was one of 16 chosen by the Department of energy (DOE) in 2011 to develop innovative techniques for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Some steam has insufficient energy to run a turbine. This is often referred to as waste heat
The Department of energy wants us to investigate how our process compares with what's already on the market
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Childhood nutritionchildhood from two to fourteen years old is a growth period during which the requirements for energy and nutrients increase.
and how they are created researchers at the University of Illinois's Energy Biosciences Institute have developed some suggestions on how to improve the regulation of all invasive plant species including new biofuels plants.
Quinn's job at the University of Illinois's Energy Biosciences Institute has been to investigate the potential for invasiveness in new nonnative crops that are being developed for biofuels.
Quinn who is a postdoctoral research associate at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois conducted the research along with James Mccubbins and A. Bryan Endres both U of
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But Ria has tremendous energy and curiosity and that convinced me to give this research project a try Bauer said.
efficient solar cellsolar cells are just like leaves capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy.
while creating another a technology that produces energy from renewable sources but is not disposable at the end of its lifecycle.
Solar Electric Materials an Energy Frontier Research center funded by the U s. Department of energy Office of Science Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001084 (Y. Z
we've been fortunate that the wind energy companies have identified these places as potential problems
The Rice university lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan determined that the well-studied material is a superior cathode for batteries that could supply both high energy density and significant power density.
This is the direction battery research is going not only for something with high energy density but also high power density Ajayan said.
which held 204 milliamp hours of energy per gram. The researchers led by Rice graduate student Yongji Gong
and higher energy content fuels can be extracted efficiently. Domesticating these as crops requires a deep understanding of the physiology
The close relationship between peach and poplar trees is evident from their DNA sequence said Jeremy Schmutz head of the Plant Program at the U s. Department of energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI.
For bioenergy researchers the size of the peach genome makes it ideal to serve as a plant model for studying genes found in related genomes such as poplar one of the DOE JGI's Plant Flagship Genomes
which extends the growing season said Daniel Rokhsar DOE JGI Eukaryotic Program head under whose leadership sequencing of the peach genome began back in 2007.
The publication comes three years after the International Peach Genome Consortium publicly released the draft assembly of the annotated peach genome on the DOE JGI Plant portal Phytozome. net and on other websites.
Learn more about poplar and DOE JGI Plant Flagship Genomes at http://genome. jgi. doe. gov/programs/plants/flagship genomes. jsf.
In the United states the Initiative was funded by the U s. Department of energy Office of Science and led by researchers at the DOE JGI The Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology Clemson University North carolina State university and Washington state University.
Additional support was contributed by U s. Department of agriculture and by the Energy Biosciences Institute of the University of California Berkeley who supported senior author Therese Mitros.
The Italian government also supported this international effort including the work of first author Ignazio Verde of the Fruit tree Research Centre/Agricultural Research Council in Rome Italy.
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or temperature control in cultivation conditions with low energy costs and subject to seasonal fluctuations. Detailed analysis of all costs over 4 years gives promising results:
If we make simple adjustments to completely optimise the process biodiesel obtained by cultivating these marine microalgae could be an option for energy supplies to towns near the sea points out Sergio Rossi an ICTA researcher at the UAB.
and their use implies diverting food products to the energy market. The possibility of creating energy from hydrocarbons extracted from organisms like marine phytoplankton the so-called third-generation biodiesel has several advantages.
Firstly algae offer the same production levels while taking up only between 4 and 7 per cent of the area occupied by crops on land thanks to their high concentration of energy per cell.
Secondly they do need not fresh water as sea water is sufficient which makes them viable even in deserts or arid areas near the coast.
In the study Argerich and colleagues analyzed concentrations of stream nitrogen which despite regulations have been on the rise across the country as energy and food production release reactive forms of the compound into waterways.
Frederico Fiuza a physicist and Lawrence Fellow at LLNL performed the simulations in order to study the interaction of ultra-powerful lasers with dense plasmas in a proposed method to produce fusion energy the energy
and tritium (DT) fuel to temperatures exceeding the 50 million degrees Celsius needed to initiate fusion reactions and release net energy.
The project is part of the U s. Department of energy's Office of Fusion Energy Science Program. This method differs from the approach being taken by LLNL's National Ignition Facility to achieve thermonuclear ignition and burn.
With simulations like this we can help transform the outlook for laboratory fusion as a tool for science energy and stewardship of the nuclear stockpile.
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i e. energy cost savings improved vehicle technologies and reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions exceed the additional costs of the transition over and above
and others may require bulky energy storage that will limit their cargo and passenger capacity.
Even though making concrete is less energy intensive than making steel or other building materials we use so much of it that concrete production accounts for between 3 to 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions Riding said.
The researchers collaborated with the University of Texas North carolina State university and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colo.
and regained their energy more quickly than did the pigs in the control group. And the researchers detected no adverse affects associated with the lysozyme-rich milk.
thus cutting the cells'energy source and eventually killing them. Three years ago researchers showed the effect of bitter melon extract on breast cancer cells only in a Petri dish.
We show that it affects the glucose metabolism pathway to restrict energy and kill pancreatic cancer cells says Rajesh Agarwal Phd co-program leader of Cancer Prevention and Control at the CU Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
and an activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase an enzyme that indicates low energy levels in the cells.
Many researchers are engineering new drugs to target cancer cells'ability to supply themselves with energy
By encouraging cows to lie down producers will also help their cows conserve energy. Allen recommended future studies to see how cows respond to different cooling systems.
and snow cover on the large land mass that surrounds the Arctic ocean thereby increasing the amount of solar energy absorbed by the no longer energy-reflecting surface.
Careful introduction of new species for production of more energy per acre is increasingly critical as is the evaluation of new
and we have shared a responsibility for proper stewardship of these landscapes said Lauren Quinn a research associate at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois-Urbana
Other coauthors are James S n. Mccubbins and A. Bryan Endres both attorneys with the Energy Biosciences Institute.
more precisea screening tool from the U s. Department of energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) eases and greatly quickens one of the thorniest tasks in the biofuels industry:
The Energy Independence and Security Act requires that the United states produce 21 billion gallons of non-corn-based biofuel by 2022.
HTAP can potentially reduce the amount of energy needed for ethanol production said NREL's Mark Davis principal investigator on the HTAP project.
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The dynamic model could also be used to predict other outputs such as energy consumption and generation. With dynamic modeling we can better understand the behaviour of the treatment plant over time says senior author Fariborz Haghighat professor in Concordia's Department of Building Civil and Environmental Engineering and Concordia Research Chair
in Energy and Environment. With this knowledge we can then recommend a strategy to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas
and also improve energy efficiency. Models such as this are used to simulate the behaviour of a particular management system
or energy--of moving from one step to another in a complex logistical operation or they could represent the strength of the correlations between the movie preferences of customers of an online video service.
The group determined that making their own filament in an insulated Recyclebot used about 1/10th the energy needed to acquire commercial 3d filament.
They also calculated that they used less energy than it would take to recycle milk jugs conventionally.
and deploy modern technology to obtain higher yields without increasing the amount of energy required.
The production of nitrogen fertilizer is also energy intensive which further increases the climate balance of unused nitrogen.
organic versus conventional farmingorganic farming is more energy efficient and produces less land-specific CO2 emissions.
We have a workable model that will enable us to identify the causes of low energy efficiency
#Avoiding virus dangers in domesticating wild plants for biofuel usein our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels plants such as switchgrass.
The administration has taken a number of steps to meet those goals such as investing billions of dollars in wind solar and other carbon-neutral energy technologies.
Their findings are summarized in a report by Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP.
We need to start thinking about how to implement a negative-emissions energy strategy on a global scale.
when more greenhouse gases are sequestered than are released into the atmosphere explained Milne an energy assessment analyst at GCEP.
The first project was launched in 2009 by the Department of energy at a corn ethanol production facility in Decatur Ill. operated by the Archer daniel midlands Company.
#oefurthermore energy costs (electricity or diesel) will be lower as there will be less need for them to pump groundwater for irrigation#Haris says.
#Lack of energy an enemy to antibiotic-resistant microbesrice University researchers cured a strain of bacteria of its ability to resist an antibiotic in an experiment that has implications for a longstanding public health crisis. Rice environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez
Over 120 generations the starving bacteria chose to conserve valuable energy rather than use it to pass on the plasmid--a small
because there is a metabolic burden a high energy cost to keeping them. The Rice researchers tested their theory on two strains of bacteria P. aeruginosa
but it's enough to have bacteria notice a deficiency in their ability to obtain energy from the environment and feel the stress to dump resistant genes.
ENA energies observed in the ribbon correlate to the speed of the solar wind which is slower (around 1 million miles per hour) at low latitudes and faster (up to 2 million miles per hour) at high latitudes.
because it so directly reflects the latitudinal structure of the solar wind says Mccomas. Simulations using a realistic solar wind structure showed remarkably good association with the IBEX data closely reproducing the observed ribbon structure location and latitudinal ordering by energy.
According to the University of Granada and San Cecilio researcher Juan Pedro Arrebola human adipose tissue (commonly known as fat) acts as an energy reservoir and has an important metabolic function.
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