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...February, Dong signed a licensing agreement with Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding for Inbicon's biomass-refinery technology to convert waste products from palm oil into ethanol. "In our view, being on the edge of new green technologies is a great opportunity," says Eldrup. "It gives us an advantage in reducing CO[subscript 2], but it also gives us technological advantages as well as business opportunities. The U.S. has very high ambitions to increase its ethanol production, and we think this might be a great opportunity in years to come...
...women over the age of 38 who were of normal weight. Researchers asked the women about their alcohol consumption over the past year and recorded how much of four different types of alcoholic beverages they consumed - beer, red wine, white wine and liquor. The researchers measured the average ethanol content of each beverage and then calculated each volunteer's average alcohol intake; they also weighed each woman five times over the course of the follow-up period...
During his time at Harvard, Bjork, who is teaching organic chemistry at the Extension School this semester, has conducted research exploring the anti-cancer effects of certain antibiotics and producing ethanol in bacteria as a possible source of renewable energy with Harvard Medical School genetics professors Jack Szostak and George M. Church as well as ry professor Andrew G. Myers...
...engage the critical issue of energy independence and hope that students at MIT and other universities answer this call. We also endorse the current effort on Capitol Hill to pass climate-change legislation. However, we urge lawmakers not to resort to the specious and politically convenient answers of ethanol and clean coal, the inefficient and experimental favorites of special interests, and recognize that nuclear power must be an integral part of any comprehensive solution to this crisis.Since the infamous Three Mile Island incident in 1979, there has been a de facto moratorium on the construction on the construction...
...problem is that biofuels are treated as if they were 100% carbon neutral, even though they are clearly not. When ethanol is burned, for instance, it still releases CO2 into the atmosphere. After all, the plants that go to make biofuels are made of carbon, just as oil and other fossil fuels are. Further, the use of biofuels would reduce total greenhouse-gas emissions only if their creation were to increase - or at least not displace - existing plant growth, which naturally takes carbon out of the atmosphere. For example, if the wood chips left over from logging were used...