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Researchers find bio-inspired high-tech surfaces on hulls could greatly reduce drag and CO2 emissions of ships; up to 1% of global CO2

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If ship hulls were coated with special bo-inspired high-tech air trapping materials, up to 1% of global CO 2 emissions could be avoided according to a new study by researchers from the University of Bonn together with colleagues from St. According to the study, ships could save up to 20% of fuel as a result of reduced drag.

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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. 2019) “The Hestia fossil fuel CO 2 emissions data product for the Los Angeles megacity (Hestia-LA),” Earth Syst. million people. Data from the LA Basin mapping project are available on the NIST website. Gurney, K. Patarasuk, R., O’Keeffe, D.,

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DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

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University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch Performance Improvement - $1,000,000 The SFS Z pinch is an approach that gets smaller as the fuel is heated closer to fusion conditions. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. University of Washington. University of Rochester.

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Castor Bean Genome Published

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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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UMD IBBR awarded DOE grant to investigate how to protect biofuel crop poplar trees from disease

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The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.

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Advanced Biofuels USA receives USDA grant for feasibility study of eastern shore energy beet-to-jetfuel project

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The study will look at the technical and economic aspects of a project being developed by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Purdue University, and Maryland small businesses. Also, UMES will be looking at using the proteins from the biomass as potential high value poultry feed or other animal feed.

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DOE selects eight integrated biorefinery projects for up to $15M total in funding

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Baltimore, Maryland)—Thermochemical Recovery International (TRI) will study and improve feedstock and residual solids handling systems targeted to commercial pyrolysis and gasification reactors. Currently, the syrup content is used for biogas production and as the solid fuel for boilers.