Energy
Deputy Agriculture Undersecretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien recently announced that the United States Department of Agriculture is funding a series of projects to convert biomass to energy through USDA's Rural Energy for America program.
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Research at Iowa State University has led to discovery of a genetic method that can increase biomass in algae by 50 to 80 percent.
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Largest solar project in New York State seen as key to Long Island’s energy, economic, and environmental future. Solar farm will produce enough energy to power up to 4,500 Long Island homes avoiding the use of fossil fuels.
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An important step towards making biofuels economically competitive has been taken by researchers with the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a DOE Bioenergy Research Center led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
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A lighter, greener, cheaper, longer-lasting battery. Who wouldn’t want that? Researchers at Michigan Technological University are working on it.
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The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed.
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National Labs are developing a special kind of accelerator for experiments aimed at fusion power, called an induction accelerator.
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Sodium-ion technology possesses a number of benefits that lithium-based energy storage cannot capture, an Argonne chemist explains.
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An Illinois research team has overcome one major obstacle to a technology that reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide and produces fuel.
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A new way to make sugars from biomass has been discovered by researchers at Iowa State University for use in biofuel production.
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Scientists have identified a potential new biofuel that could replace today’s standard diesel but would be green and U.S.-produced.
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Lab has designed a new kind of anode that can absorb eight times the lithium of current designs while maintaining its high capacity.
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