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New Technique Improves Efficiency Of Biofuel ProductionRaleigh NC (SPX) Jul 06, 2010 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a more efficient technique for producing biofuels from woody plants that significantly reduces the waste that results from conventional biofuel production techniques. The technique is a significant step toward creating a commercially viable new source of biofuels. "This technique makes the process more efficient and less expensive," says Dr. Ratna Sharma-Shivappa, associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering at NC Stat ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 5, 2010Efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gathered steam Monday after Hurricane Alex prompted a five-day shutdown, amid new questions over how BP would pay for the mounting costs. Cleanup workers arrived back on Grand Isle, Louisiana by the hundreds, spilling off school buses that shuttled them in from around the state. In the wake of Hurricane Alex, beaches, shorelines and marshe ... more 
Eschenbach, Germany (SPX) Jul 06, 2010H.C. Starck Ceramics and Kerafol have announced a partnership in manufacturing, sales, and distribution of high-temperature SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cells) doped with scandium. Because the scandium-doped zirconia used in these fuel cells is highly conductive, scandium-doped solid oxide fuel cells have the highest output potential of all electrolyte-supported fuel cells (ESC), and as a resul ... more  
Bedford MA (SPX) Jul 06, 2010Spire has announced it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) as the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop a light emitting diode (LED) based solar simulator. Spire is a major producer of solar simulators using pulsed light lamp light sources; this project will develop a next generation solar simulator, based on LED technology. An LED based s ... more |
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Louisiana resumes oil spill skimming after Hurricane AlexNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 4, 2010 Efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ramped back up Sunday as skimming operations resumed in Louisiana after a five-day shutdown due to Hurricane Alex. High seas kept skimming vessels tied up in harbor in three other southern US states and no controlled burns were being carried out, but officials said other operations to fend off the spill, including the laying of boom, were on again. "We are skimming today in Louisiana, but not in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida," Coast Guard spoke ... read more |
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