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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego report very high performance catalysts to convert seed oils to olefins

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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. The ethanolysis of fatty acids derived from seed oils could provide a renewable source of LAOs. —Marx et al. Sullivan, A.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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Space Industry Experts Run the Numbers The U.S. Energy is lost at each step in the conversion from sunlight to DC electricity, then to microwaves, then back to DC electricity and finally to a grid-compatible AC current. Nevertheless, dozens of startups are now testing new fusion-reactor concepts. See diagrams.] But nature gets a vote.

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