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Researchers determine specific rates of biodegradation for 125 petroleum compounds in Deepwater Horizon spill

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The complexity of the event has made it difficult for scientists to determine the long-term fate of oil in this ocean environment. This hadn’t previously been observed at this spatial scale or in this sort of environment, so this work is important in understanding the fate of oil that reaches the seafloor. Bagby, Christopher M.

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Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

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The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. atm and ambient environments containing oxygen and nitrogen were diluted with both carbon dioxide and helium. The experiments are run by remote control from NASA’s John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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Punching above its weight

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Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include BASF and University of Georgia.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Furthermore, the Bio-BDO fermentation process operates near ambient pressure and temperature, thus providing a safer working environment. Designing greener chemicals: The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Lipshutz, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara. Academic: Bruce H.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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