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I’m a big fan of biofuels if the come from a smart feedstock. I don’t know enough about aquaculture to know if this is the answer, but it’s certainly a compelling argument.
Citing the work of Robert Glenn, a plant biologist at the University of Arizona, two biologists argue in this week’s Science [...]

Is there nothing the might yeast can’t do?
Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Dr. Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley, have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with an n-butanol biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a ten-fold improvement in n-butanol production from one of the strains to 2.5 mg/L. An open access [...]

Ocean fertilization may cause changes in marine ecosystem structure and biodiversity, and may have other undesirable effects.
While controlled iron fertilization experiments have shown an increase in phytoplankton growth, and a temporary increase in drawdown of atmospheric CO2, it is uncertain whether this would increase carbon transfer into the deep ocean over the longer-term.
I’ve posted before [...]

My favorite kind of solution. Simple, elegant, and effective.
“In a paper published in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, Inchul Kim of Metacomp Technologies, in Agoura Hills, California, working with Xin Geng and Hualei Chen of the University of Michigan-Dearborn report that the aerodynamic drag and lift on a mini-van moving at 108 kph [...]

Wave energy seems like it holds some promise for a renewable resource.  Essentially, it is concentrated wind energy, since waves are formed by wind across large areas of water.  Capturing it has it difficulties, marine environments are tough on moving parts, tough to maintain, and frequently create energy that must then be transported somewhere.    Searaser [...]

Batteries are the weak point in many clean tech ideas. They tend to be heavy, inefficient, and not very environmentally friendly. But systems like electric cars and thousands of other products depend on them. To paraphrase an old saying, Build a better battery, and the world will beat a path to [...]

Clemson University will lead a $1.2 million bioethanol research project to find the best way to produce plant-based fuels in South Carolina and the region. The US Department of Energy awarded the grant to Clemson, which will collaborate with DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken.
The purpose of the grant is to assess the potential [...]

So who is going to be the first Silicon Valley VC to fund a kangaroo farm, and sell the offsets?
Professor Ross Garnaut was recently commissioned by the Australian government to produce a 600-page study on global warming, in which he stated that the agriculture industry should be required to buy permits for [...]

One of the big issues with Hydrogen is the misconception that it is an energy source. It’s not really, there isn’t much floating around in usable form, so it has to be created from some type of input. Many of us might remember the old high school experiment, where electrolysis was use to [...]

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