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NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The RNG will be used to fuel UPS’s LNG-powered trucks in Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Toledo. When completed in March 2020, it will convert landfill methane to pipeline-quality natural gas. The plant is currently under construction.
Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2018
A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5 This is important because many industry lobbying groups argue that current levels are too stringent and should be relaxed. Previous studies have found that PM 2.5
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
After two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that inorganic mercury, released by human activities such as industry and coal burning, undergoes a process called methylation and becomes monomethylmercury. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. —Igor Lehnherr. Igor Lehnherr, Vincent L.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2013
Most farms rely on great quantities of industrially-produced, nitrogen-rich fertilizer to ensure crop yields, but doing so comes with trade-offs. it needs to be converted into a form that plants can use. Cyanobacteria are blue-green algae of which certain strains are capable of gathering and converting atmospheric nitrogen.
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JULY 17, 2020
Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). Roush Industries. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. General Motors LLC.
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MARCH 20, 2009
Working with Keasling on this study were Rajat Sapra, a biochemist with Sandia National Laboratories who directs the enzyme optimization program at JBEI, and Yinjie Tang, a chemical engineer now with Washington University in St. Their results were reported in a paper in the 1 April 2009 issue of the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
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