Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2014
Miscanthus, a perennial grass with vast potential to produce biomass, would deliver even better yields than once thought in Iowa, according to research by agronomists at Iowa State University. The paper found that the miscanthus hybrid had low mortality rates when faced with harsh Iowa winters. Nicholas N. Boersma, Emily A.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. to 335 L/vehicle kilometer traveled (VKT) for Iowa and from 59 to 214 L/VKT for Nebraska. Credit ACS, Mishra and Yeh. Click to enlarge. —Mishra and Yeh.
Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2010
Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es101727m.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural fertilizer have been found to promote excess growth of algae in water bodies—a problem that’s common across North America and in many areas of the world. In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es9011433. Landis and H.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As I write this month’s article, my house is a noisy, dusty construction zone. This water-cooled model was the size of a modest refrigerator, standing approximately 1.7 a manufacturer of home appliances based in Iowa. An abridged version of this article appears in the January 2023 print issue as “ The Microwave’s Slow Burn.”.
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