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Student Teams Prepare For The Ultimate Extracurricular ActivityHouston TX (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 As most high school and college students are busy tackling tests or taking it easy during spring break, student teams from across the Americas are preparing for the ultimate extracurricular activity - designing, building, and testing a vehicle that travels the farthest distance using the least amount of energy. After months of coordinating designs and constructing vehicles, 43 student teams - among 9 high schools and 29 universities - are putting the finishing touches on their vehicles for the 201 ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 4, 2009 The U.S. Congress is coming under increased lobbying pressure from the Algal Biomass Organization, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. In a statement Thursday, ABO called on Congress to provide tax parity to algae biofuels and make incentives available to the industry at ... more 
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 04, 2010Gas money for your tank doesn't grow on trees, but one day you might be filling up with fuel that does. A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bowie State University is working on ways to turn poplar trees into high-yield crops for biofuels including ethanol, the renewable biofuel used in gasoline blends and flex-fuel vehicles. The hybrid trees would be grow ... more 
Des Plaines IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2010UOP has announced that it has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production. The funding will be used for the design of a demonstration system that will capture carbon dioxide from exhaust stacks at Honeywell's manufacturing fac ... more |
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New Process Yields High-Energy-Density, Plant-Based Transportation FuelMadison WI (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel. The simple process preserves about 95 percent of the energy from the original biomass, requires little hydrogen input, and captures carbon dioxide under high pressure for future beneficial use. With James Dumesic, Steenbock Professor of Chemical and Biological Engin ... read more |
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