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2016 Billion Ton Report shows US could sustainably produce at least 1B tons biomass by 2040 for bioeconomy

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The 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updates and expands upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). The Billion Ton 2016 is the third in the series of these Billion Ton reports. and Allegheny Science and Technology).

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NC State study finds non-FFV vehicles can adapt to mid-level ethanol blend

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A study by a team from North Carolina State University, with colleagues from the Urban Air Initiative and 3DATX Corporation, has shown that non-FFVs (flexible-fuel vehicles) can adapt to a mid-level ethanol blend—specifically E27. Four real-world cycles were repeated for each vehicle with each fuel.

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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

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Reynolds’ family has farmed land in North Carolina for more than 300 years. North Carolina State University In this new work, the researchers focused on corn and soybean plants, given their importance to the global economy and food supply. Reynolds points out they weren’t starting from scratch, however.

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DOE BETO awards $10M to 7 advanced biofuels projects

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Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. The University of California, Riverside in collaboration with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and CogniTek. BETO awards. Organizations.

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Start-up commercializing NC State technology for drop-in biofuels; full commercial production targeted for 2016

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Avjet Biotech will sell stock and use the funds raised to reimburse the university for its investment in patent applications, as well as allocate development capital to create a continuous production model for the biofuel refining system. This step converts the n-alkanes to the specifications necessary for jet, diesel and gasoline fuels.

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Consortium proposes large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICCM) as solution to global energy, food, and climate issues

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Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues.

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Let Robots Do Your Lab Work

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So I think top universities, government labs, industry folks, lots of equipment. One, we just did a workshop at the University of— sorry, North Carolina State University about that very problem, right? And we were the first ones to do that for material science in our 2016 publication. So there’s two models.

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