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JULY 14, 2016

Sorghum is a promising feedstock for environmentally friendly fuels and chemicals that offer alternatives to petroleum-based products. The work was conducted by researchers from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Washington State University in Pullman, the USDA-ARS in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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JULY 27, 2018

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from North Carolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

capture system at an existing coal-fueled generating unit. The facility is located at Nebraska Public Power District’s Gerald Gentleman Station Unit 2, in Sutherland, Nebraska. University of North Dakota. capture technologies, or 2) designing a commercial-scale, post-combustion CO?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Bay Area Air Quality.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

A multi-institutional team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports that it can increase sugarcane’s geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30% and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a larger research initiative— supported by $3.2

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MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Compared to most vegetable oils, acetyl-TAGs have reduced viscosity and improved cold temperature properties that confer advantages in applications as biodegradable lubricants, food emulsifiers, plasticizers, and ‘drop-in’ fuels for some diesel engines. The researchers have been supported with a four-year $1.5

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Agriculture is being challenged to provide food, and increasingly fuel, for an expanding global population. —Doug Landis, a biologist at Michigan State University (MSU) and corresponding author. Biomass Fuels' —Doug Landis. The work was also funded by the US Department of Energy and MSU AgBioResearch. 1309492111.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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AUGUST 7, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted the peer review of the renewable fuel standards lifecycle analysis—including significant indirect emissions, such as from indirect land use changes— online. Boyer, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Kenneth G. Cassman, University of Nebraska; Dr. John R.

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JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. million, 9 projects) to conduct research into advanced reactor materials for piping, wiring cladding and other related structures in nuclear reactors and across the nuclear fuel cycle.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $13.5-million, million, multi-institutional research effort to improve sorghum as a sustainable source for biofuel production. Most US biofuels currently are made from corn, but sorghum varieties create more biomass for cellulosic ethanol.

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APRIL 22, 2014

Using corn residues to produce ethanol and other types of biofuel can generate more greenhouse gases than even fossil fuel sources, according to a new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The results of the study will come as a massive blow to the Obama administration which has been push[.]. Biofuels'

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine, published the sequence and analysis of the castor bean ( Ricinus communis ) genome in Nature Biotechnology. Nature Biotechnology doi: Tags: Biotech Fuels. A research team co-led by scientists from the J.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Tags: Cellulosic ethanol Ethanol Fuels Policy. Credit: ACS, Costello et. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JULY 23, 2009

University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. Expansion of agriculture to provide plant biomass for production of fuels and/or feedstocks will require additions to the present repertoire of crops. University of Florida, $643,000. Michigan Technological University, $900,000. University of Georgia, Athens, $705,000.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies. Fossil fuels with CCUS are already—and by far—the lowest cost source of low-carbon hydrogen.

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JULY 23, 2009

Here is a round-up of the projects that will benefit - the DOE is providing $4million for four projects while the USDA will award $2.3million to an additional three projects: - The University of Georgia, Athens, has been awarded $1,200,000 for the expansion of agriculture to provide plant biomass for production of fuels and/or feedstocks. -

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Quaternary phosphonium based hydroxide exchange membranes: With $760,705 the University of California at Riverside will develop fuel cell membranes that are more tolerant to abuse and are more ion-conductive and durable. The aim is to deliver power from batteries to electric motors with up to 50 per cent more efficiency.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The uncompressed input data totalled ?3

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. Biomass Energy (5 projects). CARBON CAPTURE.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

This research was conducted by Xu in collaboration with Jilian Fan and Chengshi Yan and John Shanklin of Brookhaven''s Biosciences Department, and Rebecca Roston, now at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Biomass Biotech Fuels' Oxidation, Thereby Maintaining Membrane Lipid Homeostasis,” Plant Cell doi: 10.1105/tpc.114.130377.

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