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Minerals used in electric cars: How much does the US import and from where?

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Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia. Gabon, South Africa, Australia, Georgia. Argentina, Chile, China, Russia. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. China, Mexico, Canada, India. Chile, Canada, Mexico.

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UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

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A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. —Janet Westpheling.

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BESC researchers identify key proteins in species of extremely thermophilic bacteria for breakdown of biomass into fermentable sugars

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The genus Caldicellulosiruptor , found in globally diverse sites from New Zealand to Iceland to Russia, contains the most thermophilic (optimal growth temperatures range from 70–78 °C, or 158–172 °F), plant biomass-degrading bacteria isolated to date. The extremely thermophilic, cellulose-degrading Caldicellulosiruptor bescii.

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NREL/UGA study finds microbial enzyme digests cellulose ~2x fast as current leading commercial cellulase; implications for biofuels cost

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This organism, initially grown on biomass by scientists from the University of Georgia, was used to produce extracellular enzymes (enzymes that function outside of the cell).

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States. Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand.

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Conspiracy theories link soaring gas prices to electric vehicles with zero evidence

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. “At this point, conspiracy theories have become so ingrained in people’s psyche and because of social media, they spread like wildfire,” Georgia State University Professor Mia Bloom said in an interview with the Associated Press. AAA data suggests the U.S.