Energy
Politicians are pinning their hopes for delivery from global warming on a technology that is not quite airtight
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Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, according to a new study from the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
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Field work and computer simulations in Michigan and Wisconsin are helping biofuels researchers understand the basics of getting home-grown energy from the field to consumers.
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Carbon storage may win out against an unproven recycling technology that uses algae
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NIST researchers have developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Research Center does everything from chemical and biochemical analyses to bioengineering to process scale-up to microbial strain development.
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On December 2, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Congressman Jerry McNerney, along with representatives from the offices of Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, officially dedicated the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).
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San Diego philanthropist John J. Moores has contributed $2.1 million to The Scripps Research Institute's new $50 million initiative to recruit world-class researchers and sustain and expand current research efforts at the La Jolla, CA- and Palm Beach County, FL-based biomedical organization.
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A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but its only one percent of these microbial bugs that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.
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Ohios academic and industrial researchers now can share some of the states most valuable and expensive scientific instruments via the Internet, thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools developed by engineers and researchers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
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Seventy six American Nobel Laureates in science have endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.
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