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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

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By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst.

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Europe Gets an Exascale Supercomputer

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Another such machine, Aurora , is seemingly on track to be completed any day at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. JUPITER will reside in a cavernous new building housing several shipping-container-size water-cooled enclosures. Now Europe’s getting up to speed. Doing so requires enormous machines. How many nodes will there be?

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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There is only so much salt you can dissolve in a glass of water. Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. At the depot, the spent fuel could be recharged with electricity from any source—solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, or fossil fuels.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. sorghum and switchgrass.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Representatives Henry A.

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