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Biofuel breakthrough: Quick cook method turns algae into oilAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Nov 01, 2012 It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can "pressure-cook" algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65 percent of the green slime into biocrude. "We're trying to mimic the process in nature that forms crude oil with marine organisms," said Phil Savage, an Arthur F. Thurnau professor and a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan. The findings will be ... read more |
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  Taming Mavericks: Stanford Researchers Use Synthetic Magnetism to Control Light Magnetically speaking, photons are the mavericks of the engineering world. Lacking electrical charge, they are free to run even in the most intense magnetic fields. But all that may soon change. In ... more | .. |
 Switching to an energy crop: Break even or make a profit? Along with the growing interest in biomass energy crops as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels comes a growing list of questions from corn and soybean farmers about what it will cost them to swit ... more | .. |
  Sustainable cities must look beyond city limits City leaders aspiring to transform their cities into models of sustainability must look beyond city limits and include in their calculation the global flow of goods and materials into their realm, a ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Virtual reality 'beaming' technology transforms human-animal interaction Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale. Published in PLOS ONE, ... more | .. |
  Stanford scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today. "Carbon has the potenti ... more | .. |
  Graphene Mini-Lab A team of physicists from Europe and South Africa showed that electrons moving randomly in graphene can mimic the dynamics of particles such as cosmic rays, despite travelling at a fraction of their ... more | .. |
 UC Research Brings Us Step Closer to Rollable, Foldable e-Devices The next generation of electronic displays - e-Readers, smartphones and tablets - is closer thanks to research from the University of Cincinnati. Advances that will eventually bring foldable/rollabl ... more |
  
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  Advanced exoskeleton promises more independence for people with paraplegia The dream of regaining the ability to stand up and walk has come closer to reality for people paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step. A team of engineers at Vanderb ... more | .. |
  The hunt for electron holes Hydrogen production by solar water splitting in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) has long been considered the holy grail of sustainable energy research. Iron oxide is a promising electrode material. ... more | .. |
  US nuclear plant exits 'alert' after storm waters recede A US nuclear plant exited "alert" status Wednesday after the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy receded, ending the flood threat at New Jersey's Oyster Creek plant, though it remained offline. ... more | .. |
 BG Group says it sells Queensland gas interests to China's CNOOC British energy producer BG Group said on Wednesday it will sell interests in its Queensland Curtis liquefied natural gas project in Australia to China's CNOOC for US$1.93 billion (1.48 billion euros). ... more |
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  Panasonic projects $9.6 billion loss amid overhaul Panasonic said Wednesday it would book a mammoth $9.6 billion net loss this fiscal year as the Japanese consumer electronics giant undergoes a major overhaul of its troubled business. ... more | .. |
  ArcelorMittal reports plungs into loss on weak Chinese demand for steel Top world steelmaker ArcelorMittal plunged into quarterly loss and slashed its stock dividend on Wednesday, blaming a slump in Chinese demand and operating losses in Europe, and sending its share price sharply down in Paris. ... more | .. |
 Hitachi enters Britain's nuclear sector Japan's Hitachi Ltd. will build up to six new nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom as part of its agreement to acquire Horizon Nuclear Power from German energy companies RWE and E.ON. ... more | .. |
 Iraq, Kuwait battle over gulf megaports Iraq and southern neighbor Kuwait, at daggers drawn since the days of the Ottoman Empire, are again in dispute, this time over plans to build rival megaports in the northern Persian Gulf. ... more |
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 Bulgarian president sets nuclear referendum for next January Bulgarians will be asked in a January referendum whether they want their country to be home to a second nuclear power plant, the office of President Rosen Plevneliev said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  US travel chaos continues with 20,000 flights cancelled Travel chaos from Hurricane Sandy dragged into a fourth day with roads still covered in floodwater and debris, New York's subway still closed and flights cancellations reaching nearly 20,000 Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima operator TEPCO slashes loss forecast TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, on Wednesday dramatically slashed its fiscal-year loss projection, citing asset sales and cost-cutting for the change. ... more | .. |
 Virgin Group and Rosnano announce joint investment fund Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Virgin Green Fund on Wednesday announced plans to form a $200 million emerging markets fund with Russia's Rosnano Capital to invest in innovations and green technologies. ... more |
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 US consumers rushing into tablets: survey Some 31 percent of US consumers have purchased tablet computers, and most of the others want one, a survey showed Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Mazda in profit, cuts sales outlook on China row Mazda on Wednesday said it had returned to profitability but reduced its annual sales forecast, blaming a Tokyo-Beijing territorial spat that has sparked a boycott of many Japanese exports. ... more | .. |
 Ferrovial sells Heathrow stake to China's CIC Spanish construction group Ferrovial said Wednesday it had agreed to sell a stake in London's Heathrow airport to Chinese firm CIC International. ... more | .. |
 Nissan chief wary of China amid island row: report Nissan would think twice before making new investments in China, the firm's chief told the Financial Times, as Japan-brand auto sales dive amid a territorial row between Tokyo and Beijing. ... more |
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  US telecom networks take hit from Sandy US telecom networks took a hit from superstorm Sandy, which knocked out some emergency call centers in the northeast, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Hurricane forces three US reactors shut Three US nuclear power reactors remained shut down and a fourth on alert Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc with transmission networks and high waters threatened cooling systems. ... more | .. |
 China completes shale bidding The latest bidding round for exploration rights on 20 Chinese shale gas blocks attracted a record 83 companies, the Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources said. ... more | .. |
 Chile thinking again of nuclear power use Chile is thinking again of meeting its future energy needs with nuclear power, after more than a year of hesitation and delays caused by the March 2011 Fukushima atomic reactor disaster in Japan. ... more |
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 'Self-healing' concrete in real-world test A "self-healing" concrete that can patch up cracks by itself is ready for outdoor testing, researchers at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands say. ... more | .. |
 "Stunning" start for Windows 8: Microsoft chief Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said the Windows 8 operating system was off to a "stunning" start with four million upgrades downloaded since its release on October 26. ... more | .. |
 Japan's Komatsu logs profit drop on weak China demand Japan's top construction machinery maker Komatsu said Tuesday its net profit dropped 30.2 percent in the first six months to September, citing weak demand in China and the yen's strength against the euro. ... more | .. |
 China's Guangdong mulls investing in Romanian nuclear plant China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Group has shown interest in building two new reactors at Romania's sole nuclear power plant, deputy economy minister Rodin Traicu said Tuesday. ... more |
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