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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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in computer science. The kelp that the team harvests currently becomes agricultural additives; it could also be used to make biofuels, fertilizers, or livestock feed. It’s hard to measure how much carbonseaweed sequesters, he notes, because fish and microbes feed on seaweed, then exhale it as carbon dioxide.

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USDA study finds GHG from corn-based ethanol ~39% to 43% lower than from gasoline; reduction of >70% possible by 2022

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Life-cycle GHG emissions for gasoline and corn ethanol by scenario and source category. concluded in a 2008 paper published in Science that the emissions associated with ethanol production and combustion exceeded the emissions associated with producing and combusting an energy-equivalent quantity of gasoline. Lewandrowski et al.

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Study finds that gaps in research on topics critical to the global biofuels industry warrant caution; a call for more interdisciplinary work

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Their paper appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The least studied topics, excluding geographical categories, were human health, trade, and biodiversity, which retrieved 129 articles combined. Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/es2023253. Bierwagen, Brenda B. Lin, Adrea Mehl, and David A.

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DOE, USDA Announce Up To $33M in Funding for Biomass Research and Development Initiative

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The intent of requiring integration is to encourage a collaborative problem-solving approach to all studies funded under BRDI, to facilitate formation of consortia, identify and address knowledge gaps, and accelerate the application of science and engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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Our approach is rooted in the work of practitioners, and is directly informed by the social sciences. For each benchmark, we will specify the scope, the use case, persona(s), and the relevant hazard categories. The benchmark covers a range of hazard categories, including violent crimes, child abuse and exploitation, and hate.

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Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm

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Such scenarios may seem like science fiction, but recent progress in robotics and neuroscience makes extra robotic limbs conceivable with today’s technology. These systems fall under the category of brain-machine interfaces (BMI).

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

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Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. He can pull in theNational Academy of Engineeringand the National Science Foundation and have them recommend thetechnical approach," while a government-owned foundry could get thefirst few million car batteries out the door and then license thetechnology to private sector companies.

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