(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, farmers in Brazil's Amazon Basin have hunted through dense jungles for what is called "terra preta" — mysterious plots of super-fertile black soil amid otherwise nutrient-stripped ...
Environment
Sep 30, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University have demonstrated the low-temperature efficacy of an atomically dispersed platinum catalyst, which ...
Materials Science
Sep 23, 2010
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Spain's government Monday approved the construction of the country's largest biomass plant, the renewable energy group Ence announced Monday.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 20, 2010
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When it comes to selecting the right plant source for future cellulosic biofuel production, the solution won't be one-size-fits-all, and it certainly doesn't have to involve food and feed crops.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 12, 2010
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Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity production ...
Nanophysics
Jul 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By imaging the cell walls of a zinnia leaf down to the nanometer scale, energy researchers have a better idea about how to turn plants into biofuels.
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2010
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Research published in the journal Genetics suggests that mutant maize have multiple independent pathways used to regulate and export sugars throughout its various organs
Biotechnology
Jun 7, 2010
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Scientists have been hard at work harnessing the power of microbes as an attractive source of clean energy. Now, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University researcher Dr. Prathap Parameswaran and his colleagues have ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Illinois at Chicago study of facilities that produce most of the nation's ethanol found that the energy needed to make a gallon of the corn-based fuel decreased on average by about 30 ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An article written in 2004 by a Lehigh engineering professor and his former student has received more citations than any publication in its field, according to a company that analyzes the influence of research ...
Other
May 11, 2010
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