What landowners should knowcumulative habitat loss encroachment by invasive woody plants wind energy development petroleum production
Genetic modificationthe genetic modification strategy employed in this study could also be used on other plants like grasses to be used as a new kind of fuel to replace petroleum.
We're a petroleum reliant society says Mansfield. We rely on the same resource for everything from smartphones to gasoline.
or vaporizer pens for individuals who vaporize other substances such as herbs marijuana marijuana oils and hashish waxes.
While the oil-and protein-rich legume is seen as a cash crop in the developed world it remains a valuable sustenance crop in developing nations.
Apart from being a rich source of oil (44 percent to 55 percent) protein (20 percent to 50 percent)
While the benefits are far-reaching gardening in urban settings can also create opportunities for exposure to contaminants such as heavy metals petroleum products and asbestos
#Diamonds are an oils best friend: Research to find the best nanofluid for heat transfera mixture of diamond nanoparticles
and found that a very small concentration--one-tenth of a percent by weight--raised the thermal conductivity of the oil by 70 percent at 373 kelvins (about 211 degrees Fahrenheit).
--but perhaps unlike anything else yet seen--takes hold as oil and diamond molecules collide when heated.
They rigged the field centre's microscopes with smartphones to produce images of the tiny spider's even tinier genitals (using cooking oil from the station's kitchen to make them more translucent) dusted the spider's webs with puffs of corn flour (also from the kitchen) to make them stand out
and the popcorn was prepared with canola oil that has saturated less fat and no trans-fat compared to the coconut oil bars previously used Overall the healthier items accounted for 9. 2%of total sales a clear indication of demand for these items.
Sales of these items did increase from game to game suggesting increasing interest in these foods.
Additionally boosters substituted canola oil for coconut oil bars in the popcorn and swapped the cheese in the nachos eliminating trans fat from the products.
Even those who are genetically susceptible can at least delay the onset of the disease by favouring vegetable oils oil-based spreads
The ORNL technology offers a new pathway to biomass-derived renewable fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and decrease U s. reliance on foreign sources of oil.
After mixing with petroleum-derived fuels the blend-stock does not require modifications to the existing distribution infrastructure.
and have seeds with less protein and greater oil concentration. The new varieties tend to mature later within these maturity groups
and oil for human food animal feed and other products global rates of yield increases for the crop will need to keep up with demand in the future.
And recycling your own milk jugs uses 90 percent less energy than making virgin plastic from petroleum.
The researchers identified three distinct dietary patterns interpreted as prudent (vegetables fruits oils water as a beverage whole grain cereals poultry fibre rich bread) Western
In a previous large randomized controlled trial called e-BP (Electronic Blood pressure) and published in JAMA Dr. Green showed that
Combining the e-Care and e-BP studies which were both based on the Chronic Care Model.
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.
Rising incomes in developing countries for example have enabled more consumers to include larger quantities of animal products oils and sugars in their diets.
But hopeful trends are also apparent as in Northern europe where evidence suggests that consumers are tending to buy more cereals and vegetables and less meat oil and sugar.
#Methane leaks from palm oil wastewater are a climate concernin recent years palm oil production has come under fire from environmentalists concerned about the deforestation of land in the tropics to make way for new palm plantations.
Now there is a new reason to be concerned about palm oil's environmental impact according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
An analysis published Feb 26 in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the wastewater produced during the processing of palm oil is a significant source of heat-trapping methane in the atmosphere.
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.
This year global methane emissions from palm oil wastewater are expected to equal 30 percent of all fossil fuel emissions from Indonesia where widespread deforestation for palm oil production has endangered orangutans.
This is a largely overlooked dimension of palm oil's environmental problems said lead author Philip Taylor a postdoctoral researcher at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR.
The global demand for palm oil has spiked in recent years as processed food manufacturers have sought an alternative to trans fats.
as long as palm oil is produced the researchers said. However the climate impact of the leaking methane could be mitigated by capturing the gas
The amount of methane biogas that went uncollected from palm oil wastewater lagoons last year alone could have met a quarter of Malaysia's electricity needs.
Capturing methane at wastewater lagoons could be encouraged by making it a requirement before palm oil products can be certified as sustainable the authors said.
Fancher and Taylor were doing research in Costa rica where palm oil production is spreading when Fancher became curious about how the oil was being processed.
She has a wastewater background Taylor said. She ended up doing an honors thesis on palm oil agriculture and wastewater emissions.
This paper is an extension of that thinking. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rapeseed cake also known as'oil cake'is obtained a by-product after pressing the plant to extract its oil.
oil-producing cropa multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are only the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
and sorghum--two of the most productive crop plants known--into even more productive oil-generating plants.
because for example with soybean once you've pressed the oil out it's fairly easy to convert it to diesel said Stephen P. Long a University of Illinois professor of plant biology and leader of the initiative.
But soybean isn't productive enough to meet the nation's need for renewable diesel fuels Long said.
and if you could make them accumulate oil in their stems instead of sugar this would give you much more oil per acre he said.
and later with sugarcane the team introduced genes that boost natural oil production in the plant.
They increased oil production in sugarcane stems to about 1. 5 percent. That doesn't sound like a lot
but at 1. 5 percent a sugarcane field in Florida would produce about 50 percent more oil per acre than a soybean field Long said.
There's enough oil to make it worth harvesting. The team hopes to increase the oil content of sugarcane stems to about 20 percent he said.
Using genetic engineering the researchers increased photosynthetic efficiency in sugarcane and sorghum by 30 percent Long said.
Our goal is to make sugarcane produce more oil be more productive with more photosynthesis
Forest chips were 2-3 times more expensive than natural gas and coal but cheaper than heavy oil.
but oils would have greater energy than ethanol. Classical breeding or genetics does not apply here because of its clonal propagation
and the use of diesel fuel during field work. Corn is a major economic crop in North america and the renewable fuels developed from corn production are used frequently to mitigate the GHG emissions from fossil fuel use explained Susantha Jayasundara lead author of the paper.
and corn or biodiesel from rapeseed and palm oil are in direct competition with food for arable land and water.
and saturated fat and encourages intake of monounsaturated fats found in nuts and olive oil. In particular the diet emphasizes consumption of vegetables fruit legumes whole grains and fish.
Encouraging the consumption of olive oil over butter and cream while increasing the amount of vegetables fruits whole grains nuts
The Robert A. Welch Foundation the National Science Foundation the Army Research Office and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund supported the research.
or produce results on related topics that are at cross purposes such as finding that fish containing oils that are good for your heart may be contaminated with mercury
You may think that climate change is being caused by burning oil coal and gas. But not so fast!
flax walnuts and canola oil are good sources of ALA omega-3. â#¢Both the amount of fat (how much) and the type of fat
We were tasked with studying elephants outside a protected region in an area that includes humans oil-drilling platforms and disturbances by machinery.
and here in the U s. The fact that elephants are surviving in a place where drilling for oil is happening is exciting
and kiddo from the increasing instability that will come with rising oil prices in the next decade?
The more you can get along without oil and natural gas, the better. Your goal should be to imagine how your children
It's generally accepted that every kilocalorie of food that makes it to our tables requires 10 kilocalories of oil
As oil becomes increasingly dear (and eventually, harder to get in the coming decades, food supply will be at risk.
which are made from oil and natural gas. Figure out a low-fuel way to get some compost and manure,
since we all know that the commercial meat industry is massively reliant on petroleum and natural gas.
Cheap and abundant oil in the past was a big part of the reason why credit was cheap and abundant
as the plateau of oil production signals the beginning of a new era of expensive and difficult oil.
and happily, without oil or gas, without food from the supermarket...even without grid power.
In this way, small American towns could make stepwise progress toward freeing themselves from the shackles of oil
rather than disappearing into the pockets of oil companies or the public coffers of Venezuela and Saudi arabia.
the legendary road that once carried millions of Americans from New york to Los angeles in the freewheeling, cheap oil days of Happy Motoring.
as the oil and gas industry is trying to persuade us to do, but building solar upon solar wind upon wind,
we waste energy â about 1. 4 billion oil barrels worth says a new study.
Percentage of Foods Wasted in U s. Fats and Oils (33%)Dairy (32%)Grains (32%)Eggs (31%)Sugar/caloric sweeteners (31%)Vegetables (25%)Fruit (23
For example, in Mexico, salty snacks require oil, which requires teaching farmers techniques in exchange for crop purchase agreements.
Vodka, olive oil, wine-you name it and there's probably a group trying to preserve the traditional ingredients and means of production.
But at this Kimpton restaurant near Washington Penn Quarter, executive chef Robert Weland has done much more â from recycling cooking oil to making his own vinegars and sausage.
Recycling cooking oil: All cooking oil is filtered and donated to Endless Summer Harvest (the source of Poste hydroponic lettuce,
arugula, butter lettuce and mache), which uses it to heat their greenhouses in the winter.
the Federal Treasury would pay oil companies at least $31 billion to use 69 billion gallons of corn ethanol that the Federal Renewable Fuels Standard already requires them to use.
Our country is spending over $730 million a day on imported petroleum this year, money that often ends up in the hands of unstable or unfriendly governments.
The price tag for our dependence on foreign oil is likely to rise even higher as the economy recovers.
Unfortunately, our governmental bodies remain in legislative capture by the automobile and oil industries and haven't shown much leadership on freight rail
We're as dependent on foreign oil as we've ever been, the modest recent uptick in domestic unconventional oil production notwithstanding.
when the world supply of oil will likely be one-third lower than it is today,
and began trending down as oil prices broke away from their sub-$40/bbl norms in 2005
and the world began turning to expensive, difficult, unconventional oil supplies.)Vehicle miles traveled are still declining,
if not rise above vehicle sales again as we move into the era of net oil supply decline circa 2014.
rounding out the top three is petroleum and chemical engineering, with a nine percent gain for the year.
Petroleum & Chemical engineering: 42,304 patents in 2010; up 9%from 2009. Domestic Appliances: 36,816 patents in 2010;
Petroleum and Chemical engineering It's all about chemical engineering in this industry, which represents 70 percent of all patents and the most active, with a 14 percent boost from last year.
including Carolina peas, raw peanuts, benne, barley and camelina, a microscopic oil seed from antiquity.
Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops Novozymes: New enzyme cuts cost of next-gen biofuels USDA bets (again) on advanced biofuels Poet s cellulosic ethanol strategy:
and fueled by pure, unrefined canola oil, and in a world first, urine will be collected from purpose-built lavatories to be used as soybean
Bye bye imported oil? New tech converts junk plastics into fuel Solar-powered trash cans World s cheapest light bulb Printable paper solar panels New battery can recharge itself using sunlight The future
Therefore, the profit on the same barrel of oil will be higher when it's produced from a high EROI source than
which a certain amount of energy in the forms of natural gas and diesel fuel are used to create an equivalent amount of energy in the form of ethanol,
thin enough to be swamped by the volatility of both corn and oil prices, as indeed it was in recent years.
At $61 a barrel, oil production can be profitable at an EROI of 5 but not at 2. When EROI is less than 10,
One example King and Hall offer is that a 60 percent drop in EROI from 25 to 10 resulted in a 150 percent increase in oil prices, from $19 a barrel to $48.
because the EROI of domestic U s. oil production is now approaching 10, having fallen from around 100 in the early days of oil (Cleveland, 2005).
Even in the few prospects where we can still drill a well that will produce over 100,000 barrels of oil per day,
like the deepwater Gulf of mexico, the EROI varies from 4 to 14 (Moerschbaecher, 2012). Hall and Murphy have also found that a given fuel must have an EROI of at least 3 to deliver a net benefit to society because of the associated infrastructure needed to support
In the words of Heun and de Wit, There are not perfect and scalable substitutes for oil at the present time.
In so many ways, conventional oil is special. We are losing the race between oil depletion and the pursuit of substitutes and better extraction technology.
Drilling technology cannot overcome depletion because depletion is giving us declining EROI and intolerably high prices for substitutes.
The researchers conclude that a smooth transition away from oil is unlikely without a deliberate policy effort to steer us toward alternative energy sources
Bedazzled by the sheer magnitude of unconventional resources trillions of barrels of oil equivalent! they cannot see how the low energy return of some (not all of those resources will ultimately force us to leave them in the ground as their cost of production proves intolerable.
The source is almost 100 percent oil. But typically--behind driver wage--fuel is second highest expense.
Every time you burn diesel fuel you re generating greenhouse emissions. So just by managing our resources wisely,
Most of them also burn diesel fuel. In different applications, some will use all electric engines.
Burning 100 gallons of diesel fuel emits 1 metric ton of carbon emissions. This year we will ship over 1 million loads via intermodal service.
He began his career as an internal auditor at Exxonmobil. Deneve joined Apple in 1990 where he held several sales
The wood in the pyrolysis process comes out in this liquid--pyrolysis oil. They were extracting the chemicals for food additives from it.
In petroleum refining, there's a technique called FCC--fluid catalytic cracking--that makes gasoline, predominantly.
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae Pressure-cooking method makes an algae-based biofuel Plane takes first flight on 100
Green algae used to make plastics that dont contain petroleum The algae bloom of alternative energy Video:
sustainable hydrogen from algae could reduce U s. dependence on foreign oil Solazyme founder Harrison Dillon:
Sora Stoda 21 years old decided to start a potato chip factory using local potatoes and local oil.
which panelists discussed the impact of rising oil prices on the cost of plastic building materials;
Blaine Brownell Assistant Professoruniversity of Minnesota School of architecture There are a lot of plastics that come from oil, but  were increasingly seeing plastics that come from renewable material.
Jay Bolus Vice president of Technical Operationsmbdc Alternatives to petroleum based plastic: Corn-based, cellulose-based, soy based, sugar based.
or to use petroleum-based plastic; or to switch to steel and aluminum. Recycling came about as a waste management strategy;
and derived by something other than petroleum? Green chemistry is all about thinking about end of life considerations before you design the molecule and put it into the environment.
but manmade materials, most derived from oil today, will fall across some spectrum of green.
I would say its not just transiting from petroleum-based to bio-based. The first thing we have to do is make people aware that alternatives exist
At the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, a clever engineer named Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his namesake engine with peanut oil.
But in the age of cheap petroleum, biofuels could never really overtake gasoline as the fuel of choice.
can be converted into diesel fuel and also into jet fuel. It has essentially no impurities and is essentially indistinguishable from normal diesel and jet fuels.
when you've been at BP--there, I was responsible for purchasing oil and selling crude products--is:
how do you make money in this business? You need to have cheap crude oil --i e. waste materials--and you don't want to be in competition for feedstocks,
I actually ran clean fuels research for Amoco at the time, which actually involved cleaning up gasoline,
but you have to realize that with the BP-Transocean oil spill we just poisoned half the food chain down there in the Gulf of mexico.
Knowing BP, it's not a surprise. It's a broken culture. The winners can come from anywhere in the last minute.
backed by BP and Dupont, is set to begin commercial production in 2014. There is more corn grown in the United states used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed.
another mandate missed USDA bets (again) on advanced biofuels BP, Shell score high on biofuel assessment Fuel to Byrne Cleanstar's plan to use ethanol to clean up cooking
and that are often found in oil-rich kingdoms or with names like Trump on them.
Drones will play a role in oil and gas exploration. Utilities can also use drones to survey power lines.
Dupont breaks ground on $200m cellulosic ethanol plantwhile dozens of companies, including BP, have ditched plans to produce cellulosic ethanol,
BP scraps cellulosic ethanol plant plans Turning pine trees into jet fuel Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops
A zero-fat soybean oil called Plenish under its Pioneer brand in 2012. We have a unique capability to have both science in advanced materials as well as biotechnology,
the company is partnering with oil giant BP on commercialization in the U s. and Brazil.
and BP brings the fuel blending, testing and marketing.)The advantage of butanol is that its higher energy content means more of it can replace gasoline,
and fats/oils, and not significant for soda/juice. Comparing extremes, healthier diets cost $1. 48 per day more than the least healthy ones.
Fuhr and Pociask forecast that IT applications could save 555 million barrels of oil by year 10,
or roughly 11%of the oil imported into the US today. In general, the evidence presented in this study shows that broadband-driven technologies can make a sizable contribution to reducing carbon emissions,
In January we are going to be announcing an oil collection service to work with a local producer of biofuels, DC Biofuels.
They will use the oil to create fuel that will be used by D c. Public schools and D c. Public works.
Right now, the oil is being reused for cosmetics or animal feed--but we think this is a better use.
Startup turns landfill-bound plastics into oil E coli bacteria that eats switchgrass to make fuel Dead people power:
With partial funding from the German government, Lufthansa has purchased 800 tons of blend from Finland s Neste Oil for the 6-month, â 6. 6 million biofuel program.
and they have problems with extraction and the development of the oil sands. We have a joint development center with Conocophillips in Doha, UAE.
so it can be used for cooking oil and in animal feed. However, when the GM CROPS persist in the wild
tapioca and wheat, says algae-based plastic could replace up to 50 percent of petroleum content found in traditional plastic resin.
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Ground zero in the energy-water nexusthe oil and gas producing countries of the Middle east may be sitting pretty in fossil fuels,
Other Middle Eastern oil and gas producers are considering similar options. UAE's next door neighbor Qatar has the world's third-largest gas reserves
If all of that oil were sold at current Brent benchmark prices (it wouldn't be but just as a point of reference), that's $115 million a day in lost revenue, just to make fresh water.
then reinforced how essential water is to oil production. And then they use it and then it's gone.
Because you need the water again for oil production. You need it. Fifteen to 20 percent of global oil use is there
and once it's consumed it's not going to be there anymore. Conservation is key With such enormous water demands and energy costs,
mishandling of my consumption of electricity, water, oil and gas? he asked rhetorically. Dubai also started to do a little bit of relief of the subsidy that has been in,
High oil prices: Fortunately and unfortunatelyhigh oil prices are changing our world in many ways;
some for the good, and some for the worse. Contemplating these changes, I'm reminded of a book I loved as a child, Fortunately,
Such it is with high oil prices. Mass transit Last week, I wrote that drivers in the U s. will be forced to simply hand over the keys to new drivers in developing countries as competition for oil increases.
But there are other reasons too, like lower costs and less stress. Bus and train ridership increased by 2. 3 percent in 2011 over 2010
which are forced by high oil prices but which aren't easily detected in official data.
Airlines As ever, high oil prices hurt the airlines most of All the last time global oil prices were this high was in the first half of 2008,
Southwest Airlines, one of the few carriers who hedged their oil price risks properly in 2008
But at today's oil prices, merely being unprofitable is doing very well indeed. Air france-KLM reported a $1 billion loss for 2011,
when the global supply of oil will be 30 percent or more lower than it is today,
As we progress into the era of expensive oil, we cannot continue having our food shipped an average 1, 500 miles from the farm to our tables.
High oil prices and the North american recession are destroying the labor arbitrage that once made it attractive to offshore manufacturing to Asia,
Oil and the End of Globalization. Soaring transport costs suddenly change the entire economics of importing everything from cheap labour markets half way around the world,
So much so that triple digit oil prices will soon breathe new life into our hollowed-out rust belts,
and that when oil prices hit $150 a barrel, it begins to reverse offshoring prompted by labor costs.
Peak oil and the new era of higher oil prices may mean that you can't just flit off to Vegas for a weekend on the cheap anymore,
A magic elixir that will wean the U s. off of foreign oil without sending the economy into the dark ages.
The remaining amount includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel fuel and four billion gallons of advanced renewable biofuels other than ethanol from cornstarch and that achieve a lifecycle threshold of at least 50 percent.
The NRC expects the U s. to meet conventional biofuel and biomass-based diesel fuel production mandates.
A world characterized by high oil prices, technological breakthroughs and a high implicit or actual carbon price.
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