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...Alliance, its leaders insist that despite last week's disappointing harvest of seats, the coalition is here to stay...
...have so far had the upper hand. Corn - the main source of ethanol in the U.S. - isn't a very rich source of energy, and it's difficult to understand how a world that still has nearly a billion hungry people could dedicate a sizable chunk of its corn harvest to fuel. The 4.86 billion gallons of corn ethanol produced by the U.S. in 2006 has already had a measurable impact on grain prices, which are hovering at world highs...
...each in Nebraska and North and South Dakota grew switchgrass over five years, and kept track of how much fuel and fertilizer they used during the trials. Vogel and his colleagues showed that switchgrass yielded 540% more energy as a biofuel than the amount of energy used to grow, harvest and process it. (Corn ethanol yields just 25% more energy.) Greenhouse gas emissions from switchgrass fuel would be 94% lower than emissions from petroleum fuel - almost carbon neutral. Previous studies had come up with similar numbers in small-scale trials, but this was the first study on the level...
...company is charging individuals to harvest their stem cells--using an extraction process similar to that for donating blood--and freeze them for possible therapeutic use in the future...
...city the size of San Francisco, one gigawatt, in the coming years, according to the New York Times. They have teamed with two firms to develop solar energy based on heat generation—which has the potential for greater energy production than photovoltaic cells—and to harvest the abundant energy of high-altitude winds. Google’s goal is to bring the cost of its renewable energy below that of today’s cheapest, but most environmentally harmful option: coal.The search is on for what a McKinsey analysis calls “breakthrough innovations?...