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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production. —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O., 2021) “n-Butanol production by Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1.”

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Don’t stop the EV music

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The late Jack Rickard of EVTV , a long time member of Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA), is something of a legend at the St. Louis, Missouri chapter. His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. “He Jack Rikard on EVTV. That was his motto.”

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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The conversion of inorganic mercury to monomethyl mercury accounts for approximately 50 per cent of this neurotoxin present in polar marine waters. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Clarkson (1991) Mercury and Monomethylmercury: Present and Future Concerns. Igor Lehnherr, Vincent L. Nature Geoscience doi: 10.1038/ngeo1134.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. But if several Altos are linked, along with file servers and printers, the result looks suspiciously like the office of the future.

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Ten of these projects are new while the rest received renewed funding based both on their achievements to date and the quality of their proposals for future research. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). Washington University, St.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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As Sutherland explains in his oral history, “Wes took TX-2 and treated it as a window into the future of what computing might be if everybody had one of his own.” As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings.

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