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DOE awards $10 million to 5 projects for advanced biofuels and bio-based products

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The awards will support projects led by collaborative teams, including universities, national laboratories and private industry. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will partner with universities and industry, including the University of Kansas , to complete the project. Craig Venter Institute ( JVCI ) (up to $1.2

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He also served on its switch gear committee. Mason Lamar Williams III.

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UGA team develops method for genetic engineering of Caldicellulosiruptor thermophilic bacteria; another pathway for efficient conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals

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Researchers at the University of Georgia, who are also members of Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), have developed a method for the genetic manipulation of members of bacterial genus Caldicellulosiruptor , a group of anaerobic thermophiles with optimum growth temperatures between 65 °C and 78 °C (149–172 °F).

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BESC researchers identify key proteins in species of extremely thermophilic bacteria for breakdown of biomass into fermentable sugars

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BESC is one of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE’s Office of Science in 2007. The three centers are coordinated at ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with Michigan State University. Source: ORNL. Click to enlarge.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” Right now, we have a license and a focus,” Johnson says. “As

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The final phase, the development phase (2007–2018), will conduct large-volume carbon storage tests.

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Enzymatic Process Converts Cellulosic Materials and Water into Hydrogen at Low Temperature; Close to Theoretical Yield of H2 From Glucose

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Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water. Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway.

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