Bioplastics offer chance to cut use of petroleum
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CAMBRIDGE - Target offers shoppers an unusual message about its gift cards at some stores, advising that they are biodegradable. "Just make sure you spend them first," the displays conclude.
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In cutting across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, governments in Europe are discovering how difficult it can be to figure out whether a particular fuel has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
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Taking a cue from the oil business, BioEnergy International is developing biorefinery processes to make fuels and specialty biochemicals.
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Finding could trigger recalculation of Earth's energy balance and help feed astronautsScientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use.
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New materials provide a potentially cheaper way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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Number of bat deaths poses a problem for an industry that sells itself as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional power plants.
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DuPont and BP have announced they will invest $58 million in biofuel production assets at two facilities in the U.K. The two plan to construct a biobutanol demonstration facility, what the companies call the ... via Inside Greentech
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By Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent  WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
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Reduce the world's oil use with rice stems and feathers. No, really. By turning them into fabrics we could cut back on polyester and rayon. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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By Nash, Steve  Biofuel's the thing, the new universal solvent, the energy elixir, the great wet hope. Your next car-or maybe the one after- could run on corn, or soybeans, or old pizza boxes.
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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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Using a technology that could save the lives of millions of the poor, Amyris Biotechnologies wants to create new biofuels that may help save the planet.
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U.S. chemists have identified the mechanism involved in biological catalysts called enzymes -- a finding that may improve synthetic catalyst design.
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Dwindling petroleum engineers create another challenge for the industry.
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Chemists unveil a type of material that could eventually help power plants generate electricity without emissions.
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By Anonymous  The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum.