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Spikemoss genome offers new paths for biofuels research; insight into lignin

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Selaginella moellendorffii (Jing-Ke Weng, Salk University). The newly completed sequence can provide biofuels researchers with information that could influence the development of candidate biofuel feedstock plants and offer botanists important insights into plant evolution. Click to enlarge. ” —Jody Banks.

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DOE awarding $40M in FY 2018 to 4 DOE Bioenergy Research Centers; plans for 5 years of funding

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The centers—each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a top university—are designed to lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important new products and fuels derived directly from nonfood biomass.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. and his team developed the foundational technology for wireless power transfer over distance via strongly-coupled magnetic resonators and founded WiTricity in 2007.

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Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

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Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. She conducted the research while a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County.

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Study concludes generating ethanol from lignocellulose possible, but large cost reductions still needed

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A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University (Canada), has concluded that using lignocellulose materials for the production of ethanol is unlikely to be competitive with starch until 2020 at the earliest. However, cost reductions must occur across all components of the production process.

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Elon Musk re-clarifies story of Tesla’s early days and how it was founded

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Musk noted that his obsession with truth is what made him study physics since the field essentially attempts to understand the truth of the universe. It did not take long before the Tesla CEO decided to correct the narrative — and provide some new insights on Tesla’s early days in the process. .

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BESC proteomic analysis of Yellowstone thermophile could aid cellulosic biofuel production

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Instead of studying discrete proteins, these systems biology-type approaches provide more thorough insight into the day-to-day operations of bioenergy-relevant organisms and thus better equip researchers to make recommendations about their use in ethanol production. The team’s measurement of the full complement and abundance of C.