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New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

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Source: Cleveland and O’Connor. The authors of the report “An Assessment of the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Oil Shale,” Dr. Cutler Cleveland and Peter O’Connor at Boston University, reviewed the existing literature on the energy return on investment (EROI) for oil shale to reach their conclusions. Click to enlarge.

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Study provides more insight into air pollution mechanisms that cause cardiovascular diseases

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Scientists around Professor Thomas Münzel, Director of Cardiology I at the Department of Cardiology at the Medical Center Mainz of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), reviewed the mechanisms responsible for vascular damage from air pollution together with scientists from the UK and the US. —Münzel et al.

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Omar Yaghi to direct Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

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Yaghi, who will also hold an appointment with the University of California (UC) Berkeley chemistry department, comes to Berkeley from UCLA, where he was the Jean Stone Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, among other positions. from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1990.

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Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

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The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. atm and ambient environments containing oxygen and nitrogen were diluted with both carbon dioxide and helium. The experiments are run by remote control from NASA’s John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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Gas2 secures £5.5M in funding to further catalytic ceramic membrane gas-to-liquids technology

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Step 1 produces syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide) in 2 stages from a combination of natural gas and oxygen. acre site at the specialist petrochemical research Wilton Centre in Cleveland in the Northeast of England, and further laboratory work and computerized modeling in Aberdeen.

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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Generally speaking, noted AVL researchers in a paper on the problem (Johnson & Hunter 2012), military-grade jet fuels have higher energy content on a mass basis (as a result of the higher hydrogen to carbon ratio), but lower energy density on a volume basis. Currently, notes Kweon, who received his Masters and Ph.D.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Because the chemical industry uses approximately 8% of the world’s fossil fuels, Genomatica’s technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by hundreds of millions of tons percent annually.

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