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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5 tons/ha/year).

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MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Source: Wolfgang Knorr, Bristol University. The study, which was conducted by Wolfgang Knorr of the University of Bristol, UK, may have implications for upcoming climate negotiations, particularly with regard to deforestation and other land-use changes. Thinner lines represent observed. Click to enlarge. per decade. Source: Woods Hole.

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MARCH 4, 2013

A new analysis by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) suggests that, notwithstanding significant uncertainties, previous studies have underestimated the contributions from installation and use phases—e.g., Credit: ACS, Arvesen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2009

With the G8 set to meet in Italy this week, a report outlining a strategy to avert an otherwise imminent failure in climate policy is being published by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science’s Mackinder Programme and the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford today.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Any computation generates waste heat. In addition, if too much of a planet-scale computer’s mass is concentrated in one place, “it could implode under its own weight,” says Anders Sandberg , a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. “It would just get too hot,” Wright says. It had to be done.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A consortium brought together by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas. A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of around half as a result of using methane from landfill sites, food and agricultural waste. Biomethane bus. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

An Argonne researcher reached consensus with researchers from other national labs, universities, the Air Resources Board, automakers, utilities and AD Little to estimate in July 2002 that PHEVs using nighttime power reduce greenhouse gases by 46 to 61 percent. The GREET 1.6 Thats 20-25 cents a gallon. Why Pay More for a PHEV?

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APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. cerevisiae for metabolism of toxic waste products. Cicerone (2000) Emissions of Methyl Halides and Methane from Rice Paddies. fermentans ferments cellulosic feedstocks to acetate and ethanol, which the modified S. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there.

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APRIL 10, 2010

The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming. The Stringency of the Cap. Stringently capping emissions, with firm near-term goals, is essential. Donovan, a member of The Florida Bar, The U.S.

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