and palm oil the rapid growth rate of sugar cane has put it at the forefront of biofuel crops.
when ethanol is burned in lieu of gas and oil. With over 2. 5 million square kilometers of existing cleared lands in Brazil much of which is degraded pasture lands there is already a large potential area for biofuel crop expansion.
Charcoal powder could easily replace oil in these installations at times of peak load says Skreiberg.
and tars bio-oils) says Skreiberg. Skreiberg hopes that an industrial company such as Elkem which now uses imported charcoal will get involved
Synthetic antioxidants also preserve fats and oils in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. The phenolics extracted during the UF study on the other hand are natural not synthetic antioxidants. â#oethis concept of using natural antioxidants in many different things in the food world is a nice concept to consumersâ#he said.
#Canola oil may be an oil of choice for people with type 2 diabetescanola*is Canada's oil
and new research from St michael's Hospital suggests it should also be one of the oils of choice for people with Type 2 diabetes.
Dr. David Jenkins head of the hospital's Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre compared people with Type 2 diabetes who ate either a low glycemic index diet that included bread made with canola oil
The word canola is a contraction of Canada and ola meaning oil. It was developed from rapeseed at the University of Manitoba in the 1970s.
Canola oil contains only 7 per cent saturated fat less than half that of olive oil widely touted for its health benefits.
and olive oil reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Jenkins said the combination of a low GI diet supplemented with canola oil had not been tested before on people with Type 2 diabetes.*
*This research was funded by the Canola Council of Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Loblaw Companies and the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Most of the work was centered on urushiol the rash-causing chemical found in the plant's oils.
and the oil can remain active on dead plants up to five years. But rather than focusing on urushiol Jelesko set about studying ways to kill the plant itself.
and its itch-inducing oil urushiol. Humans appear to be uniquely allergic to urushiol said Jelesko.
and fiberfrom antiseptic oils to the construction of didgeridoos the traditional Australian Aboriginal wind instrument the eucalyptus tree serves myriad purposes accounting for its status as one of the world's most widely planted hardwood trees.
but is reduced notably in southern Europe where a'Mediterranean diet'consisting of a larger consumption of fruit vegetables and olive oil predominates.
when it is consumed pureed in ketchup or in the presence of olive oil. Whilst there is strong epidemiological evidence to support the role of lycopene in reducing cardiovascular risk the mechanism by
However an equivalent amount is lost through logging clearing of land for grazing and growing biofuel crops such as palm oil soya bean and sugar.
When forests are cleared-for palm oil plantations agriculture or livestock--we lose vital resources put animals at risk of extinction
In addition to these policies the development of oil and mineral resources led to rapid urbanization which drew people from the rural areas to pursue jobs in larger cities.
Each pore opens to a hair follicle containing a gland that produces oil called sebum which helps keep skin soft.
When the glands produce too much oil the pores can become blocked and dirt bacteria and dead skin cells can build up in them forming the whiteheads blackheads pimples
Hormonal changes are associated with the excess production of oil --thus partially accounting for acne flare-ups in teens and pregnant women--and heredity can be a factor
If the oil and gas industry does not respond to concerns about carbon dioxide and other emissions it could well face new regulations Tour said noting the White house issued its latest National Climate Assessment last month and this week set new rules to cut carbon pollution from the nation
or use it for enhanced oil recovery to further the release of oil and natural gas. Or they can package
Apache Corp. a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and production company funded the research at Rice
which oil and coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap;
and carbon content in diesels and oils from January 2015. Aston University (UK) scientists are involved in the Reship project
Via the process of fast pyrolysis where material is heated in the absence of oxygen the wood will be converted into crude pyrolysis oil.
Compared to petroleum-based oil however crude pyrolysis oil cannot be used for direct use in diesel engines as it is too unstable.
To counter this the Aston team led by Professor Tony Bridgwater will look to stabilise freshly produced pyrolysis biofuel through mild rapid low temperature catalytic hydrogen treatment.
In cooperation with the Paper and Fibre Research Institute in Norway they will also seek to blend the bio-oil with conventional diesel
Energy company Fortum is to invest â0m in an integrate bio-oil plant while Swedish packing firm Billerud received â2m from the European commission to build a new biofuel plant based on forest residues.
and oils may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering bad cholesterol. We killed two birds with one stone
#Oil, gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communitiesconventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may accelerate these changes according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural
But they are being affected negatively in areas where there are high densities of shallow oil and gas wells says Margaret Brittingham professor of wildlife resources who conducted a study of bird communities in the Allegheny National Forest.
The national forest on the extensively forested Allegheny Plateau in northwestern Pennsylvania has more than 14000 active oil and gas wells.
Our results revealed changes in avian guilds resulting from oil and gas development and suggest that a loss of community uniqueness is a consequence.
Lead researcher Emily Thomas at the time a graduate student advised by Brittingham surveyed birds in 50-acre blocks selected for their varied amount of oil and gas development.
or absence of different songbird species in a range of landscapes including undisturbed forest low-density oil and gas development and high-density development.
and other openings created by oil and gas development are doing to bird populations said Brittingham.
or development were more abundant near oil and gas development than within undisturbed forest--potentially displacing the forest specialists.
Deep horizontal shale gas wells differ substantially from shallow conventional oil and gas wells in many ways.
#Vitamin e in canola, other oils hurts lungsa large new Northwestern Medicineâ study upends our understanding of Vitamin e and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy Vitamin e-rich
oils--canola soybean and corn--to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and possibly asthma.
The form of Vitamin e called gamma-tocopherol in the ubiquitous soybean corn and canola oils is associated with decreased lung function in humans the study reports.
and sunflower oils does the opposite. It associated with better lung function. Considering the rate of affected people we found in this study there could be 4. 5 million individuals in the U s. with reduced lung function
and butter to soybean canola and corn oils which were thought to be healthier for the heart Looking at other countries'rates of asthma Cook-Mills said those with significantly lower rates of asthma have diets high in olive and sunflower oils.
In the U s. asthma prevalence (the percentage of people who have been diagnosed with asthma and still have asthma) was 8. 4 percent in 2010 as reported by the U s. Department of health and human services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
or more times higher than those of European and Scandinavian countries that consume sunflower and olive oil Cook-Mills noted.
and sunflower oil have the lowest rate of asthma and those that consume soybean corn and canola oil have the highest rate of asthma Cook-Mills said.
When people consume alpha-tocopherol which is rich in olive oil and sunflower oil their lung function is better.
The study examined 4526 individuals from the Coronary artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA.
Cook-Mills had done previous allergy research in mice showing alpha-tocopherol decreased lung inflammation protecting healthy lung function and gamma-tocopherol increased lung
#Why you need olive oil on your salada diet that combines unsaturated fats with nitrite-rich vegetables such as olive oil
The Mediterranean diet typically includes unsaturated fats found in olive oil nuts and avocados along with vegetables like spinach celery and carrots that are rich in nitrites and nitrates.
The findings of our study help to explain why previous research has shown that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil
Natural gas â#that once seemingly promising link between the era of oil and coal to the serenity of sustainable solar wind and water power â#is a major source of atmospheric methane due to widespread
By reducing methane emissions society buys some critical decades of lower temperatures. â#oesociety needs to wean itself from the addiction to fossil fuels as quickly as possibleâ#Howarth said. â#oebut to replace some fossil fuels â#coal oil
and oil that emit more carbon dioxide and local air pollutants. But extracting processing and transporting the fuel can result in emissions of methane--itself a potent greenhouse gas.
If natural gas is expensive then it will be more costly to switch away from fuels that have higher greenhouse gas emissions such as coal and oil.
and other species. A new report calls for saving half of boreal forest acreage to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species. The northern landscape is beset with oil gas mining
Southern boreal forests have already been affected by oil and gas mining forest product industries hydropower and roads and infrastructure.
which is released from natural sources such as wetlands as well as from human activities including waste management the oil and gas industries rice production and livestock farming.
despite the positive public perception of biocontainers'environmental benefits as alternatives to petroleum-based plastic pots the impact of biocontainers on commercial greenhouse sustainability has not been evaluated thoroughly.
#Protecting olive oil from counterfeiterswho guarantees that expensive olive oil isn't counterfeit or adulterated? An invisible label developed by ETH researchers could perform this task.
and mixed with the oil. Just a few grams of the new substance are enough to tag the entire olive oil production of Italy.
If counterfeiting were suspected the particles added at the place of origin could be extracted from the oil and analyzed enabling a definitive identification of the producer.
The method is equivalent to a label that cannot be removed says Robert Grass lecturer in the Department of chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich.
The confiscated goods also included more than 131000 litres of oil and vinegar. A forgery-proof label should
To ensure that the particles can be fished out of the oil as quickly and simply as possible Grass and his team employed another trick:
Experiments in the lab showed that the tiny tags dispersed well in the oil and did not result in any visual changes.
The magnetic iron oxide meanwhile made it easy to extract the particles from the oil.
Unbelievably small quantities of particles down to a millionth of a gram per litre and a tiny volume of a thousandth of a litre were enough to carry out the authenticity tests for the oil products write the researchers.
if the concentration of nanoparticles does not match the original value other oil--presumably substandard--must have been added.
But will consumers buy expensive'extra-virgin'olive oil when synthetic DNA nanoparticles are floating around in it?
Nanoreporters tell sour oil from sweetscientists at Rice university have created a nanoscale detector that checks for
The Rice team capitalized on that work by using the probes to create downhole detectors for oil fields.
Even a 1 percent trace of sulfur turns oil into what's known as sour crude
and Mason Tomson and researcher Amy Kan the university has pioneered efforts to gather information from oil fields through the use of nanoreporters.
and amount of oil in a well that might otherwise be hard to assess. Now the same team joined by chemist Angel Martã is employing thermally stable soluble highly mobile carbon black-based nanoreporters modified to look for hydrogen sulfide and report results immediately upon their return to the surface.
because we're making our nanoreporters detect something that's not oil Wong said suggesting the possibility that nanoparticles may someday be able to capture sulfur compounds before they can be pumped to the surface.
Testing in beds of sandstone or with actual Kuwaiti dolomite to mimic oilfield environments helped the team perfect the size
and value of the afforded oil. Authors include graduate students Lu Wang Errol Samuel Changsheng Xiang Zhiwei Peng and Kewei Huang;
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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