Sentences with phrase «effective production of biofuels»
Would tools for studying microbiomes enable more effective production of biofuels or other useful materials?
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production.
From manufacturing life - saving biopharmaceuticals to producing energy - efficient biofuels, the cost - effective production of proteins will be essential to revolutionizing the future of healthcare and energy.
«This joint effort between USDA and DOE will help accelerate research in the critical area of plant feed stocks, which hold one key to making biofuels production both cost effective and sustainable on a national scale,» said Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a statement.
DOE's Bioenergy Research Centers support multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a national scale.
Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.