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Pollution Prevention Institute Launched in New York

Pete Grannis, Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, hosted an open house today at Rochester Institute of Technology, showcasing the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, also known as NYSP2I

25 Aug 2008

Stained Glass Windows Painted With Gold Use Sunlight to Purify the Air

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered

21 Aug 2008

Clean Diesel from Bosch Helps Audi to Dominate American Le Mans Races

Diesel power has won more than half of this year's Le Mans races and is also powering vehicles available to consumers

21 Aug 2008

Microorganisms Capable of Converting Hydrocarbons into Natural Gas

When a group of University of Oklahoma researchers began studying the environmental fate of spilt petroleum, a problem that has plagued the energy industry for decades, they did not expect to eventually isolate a community of microorganisms capable of converting hydrocarbons into natural gas.

19 Aug 2008

New Research Assesses the Sustainability of Corn Stover as a Biofuel Crop

With oil prices skyrocketing, the search is on for efficient and sustainable biofuels. Research published this month in Agronomy Journal examines one biofuel crop contender: corn stover.

19 Aug 2008

Just How Much "Free Lunch" Algae Biofuel Promises

Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day, producing oil in the process - 30 tim...

18 Aug 2008

Plant Varieties Tailored Specifically for Biofuel Production

Scientists at Michigan State University have identified a new protein necessary for chloroplast development. The discovery could ultimately lead to plant varieties tailored specifically for biofuel production.

16 Aug 2008

Biofuel Powered Lotus Ice Vehicle Designed for Green Exploration of Frozen Antarctic Wilderness

The Lotus Ice Vehicle has been developed to be taken to Antarctica on the Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition. The biofuel powered vehicle will aid the research going on in the region.

14 Aug 2008

Making Biofuel Production Using Small-Scale FT Microchannel Reactors Economically Viable

A new metal carbide Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst developed by Oxford Catalysts looks set to make second-generation biofuel production using small-scale FT microchannel reactors environmentally and economically viable.

14 Aug 2008

Renewable Fuels Provider to Design Biofuel Manufacturing Plant

New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc., a provider of renewable fuels, is pleased to announce it has awarded Chicago-based ECE Design, a design contract to develop the design for its first full production biofuel manufacturing plant, with expected capacity of 25 million gallons of second-generation biofuel a year.

13 Aug 2008