Dot Earth: Federal Lab Says It Can Harvest Fuel From Air
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material.
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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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Jet Propulsion Lab -- Genesis team scientists and engineers continue their work on the mission's sample return canister in a specially constructed clean room at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah...
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Chemists in the United States say they have broken new ground in biofuels, transforming plant sugar into a liquid fuel that packs 40-percent more energy than ethanol and appears to have fewer of its drawbacks.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting "down and dirty" on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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By Anonymous  Plum Brook research station in Sandusky has received a $63 million federal contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Engineered E. coli proves efficient at churning out the biofuel.
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Vehicles that electrolyze water onboard to produce hydrogen fuel could provide an easier alternative to fuel-cell vehicles and building out a hydrogen infrastructure. In Autopia.
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U.S. scientists have transformed sugar into a liquid transportation fuel they say has a 40 percent greater energy density than ethanol.
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Illinois startup Coskata says it can make ethanol out of almost anything for under a buck a gallon. Environmentalists and energy experts are cautiously optimistic that the company may be on to something.
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The $1.8 billion facility will demonstrate a novel technology to fight global warming.
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NEW ELLENTON, S.C. &#151; Years ago, engineers for the federal government here studied hydrogen for its bomb-boosting capabilities. Now, scientists are working toward developing an economy that runs on the element.
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New research centers in Tennessee, Wisconsin and California will try to develop new ways of turning switchgrass, poplar trees and other plants into fuel under a $375 million plan announced Tuesday by the Energy Department.
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LOS ANGELES - A NASA spacecraft has begun the first-ever daily tracking of how air pollution moves across the globe, a scientist at NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.
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It all came down to a small, Utah-made device sitting inside an Idaho pottery kiln. This recent experiment at a national research laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, may pave the way for an efficient means of extracting hydrogen from water.
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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Sugar found in fruit such as apples can be made into a powerful low carbon biofuel, US researchers say.