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Edinburgh Firm Partners with EU Project to Make Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater

A Scottish company at the cutting edge of hydrogen technology is partnering with a European project to convert seawater into sustainable hydrogen fuel for island regions. $$IMAGE$$ Edinburgh-based Logan Energy has ...

10 Jul 2019

Cost-Effective Way to Obtain Energy-Rich Organic Molecules from Algae

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba have come up with a new method of using nanoporous and porous graphene foams to harvest energy and organic molecules from algae.

9 Jul 2019

Researchers Create Microorganism for Algae Biomass to Produce Biofuel and Biochemical

Biorefinery technology uses biomass as a feedstock and changes it to energy and other useful by-products. It is gaining attention as an eco-friendly and sustainable technology to overcome the issue of fossil fuel depletion.

12 Jun 2019

Researchers Discover Enzyme that Catalyzes Methane-to-Methanol Conversion Reaction

Methanotrophic bacteria have attracted great attention among scientists for their potential to remove methane from the environment and transform it into usable fuel.

10 May 2019

A Sustainable Method to Boost Seed Oil Yield in Crops

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have created a sustainable way to show a new genetic alteration that can boost the yield of natural oil in seeds by up to 15% in laboratory settings.

22 Apr 2019

Research Shows Carbon-Negative Power Generation can Reduce Atmospheric CO2 Levels in China

The Paris Climate Agreement has specified that global temperature increases must be limited to 2º above preindustrial levels.

22 Apr 2019

Global CNG Vehicles Market Research Report: Adoption of Clean Technology Could Expand CNG Vehicles Industry Size by 2025

The consistent rise in prices of conventional fuels is likely to create incremental opportunities for manufacturers of CNG vehicles over the forecast year.

4 Apr 2019

Study Shows Plant-Based Bio-Jet Fuels Could Provide a Competitive Alternative to Conventional Petroleum Fuels

The global aviation industry is known to require an estimated daily fuel of over five million barrels per day. As a result, this industry is remarkably energy-intensive and almost fully dependent on petroleum-based fuels.

20 Mar 2019

Researchers Identify New Mechanism to Convert Cellulose Efficiently and Environmentally Friendly

Renewable sources have to be used efficiently in order to fulfill the growing demand for feedstock chemicals and energy in the future. However, this aspect is considered to be one of the biggest global challenges.

15 Mar 2019