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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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New gel-based non-noble-metal electrocatalyst for fuel cells

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ne of the biggest challenges for materials science is to design facile routes to structurally complex materials, which is particularly important for global applications such as fuel cells. Unlike platinum, which is rare, our new material is made up of the abundant and cheap elements, iron and magnesium. Hollamby, Brian R.

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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Yavuz of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Prof. Bo Liu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Prof. The research was carried out at Southern University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

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Baker Institute expert suggests assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed

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A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. Finally, in many MENA countries, government policies that made available low-priced fuel and electricity contributed to an ‘entitlement mentality’ among citizens toward cheap energy. and the U.S.: —Jim Krane.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. Example of mechanochemical production of a MOF. Pichon et al.

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Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

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Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.).

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BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

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The limited global supply of platinum not only drives up price, but casts doubts on its long-term viability, Muckerman said, adding that “ There may not be enough of it to support a global hydrogen economy.”. —Wei-Fu Chen. The research was funded by Brookhaven’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program.

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