A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to
produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.
Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to
produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.
Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to
produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem's new... Read more →
Using genome editing techniques, the collaborative team is developing a microalgae — nannochloropsis oceania — that uses photosynthesis to
produce synthetic fuels.
Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to
produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.
A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to
produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.
With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by
producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.
Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single - source solution for
producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass.
It's quite okay to buy those carbon - intensive fuels, which speaks volumes about what's the real agenda here: protecting the interests of the fossil fuel industry, even though
producing synthetic fuels using Nazi - era technology actually produces more carbon dioxide than burning petroleum itself.
Not exact matches
And
Synthetic Genomics, the company he founded in 2005, aims to create
fuel -
producing microbes, including algae biofuels in a $ 300 million agreement with ExxonMobil.
Synthetic biology has allowed scientists to tweak E. coli to
produce fuels from sugar and, more sustainably, cellulose
«You can do
synthetic biology to
produce a product, and they tend to be products either that evolution would not have selected for — like a
fuel, for instance — or that evolution would not select to
produce enough of — engineering microbes to
produce artemisinin.»
As part of the largest investment in coal -
fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of
producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of
synthetic natural gas annually.
«New way to prevent genetically engineered and unaltered organisms from
producing offspring: «
Synthetic incompatibility» could boost safety and effectiveness of applying genetic engineering to control invasive species,
produce fuel, prevent disease and more.»
Synthetic incompatibility may make it possible to use crops to
produce medications as well as food, feed and
fuel.
Already,
synthetic biology is making its first steps as an enabling technology to
produce fuels, chemicals, and plastics.
How many of these
synthetic trees worldwide would be needed to soak up the 22 billion tons of CO2
produced annually from fossil
fuels?
The first 200 l of
synthetic fuel have now been
produced from solar energy and the air's carbon dioxide by Fischer - Tropsch synthesis under the SOLETAIR project.
«Power - to - liquid: 200 liters of
fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide: Pilot plant
produces first
synthetic fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide / KIT spin - off ineratec supplied key component.»
Primus Green Energy Inc., developer of a proprietary process to
produce gasoline and other
fuels from biomass and / or natural gas (earlier post), will provide financial support to engineers at Princeton University for general research on
synthetic fuels, which will include... Read more →
The multi-stage bioliq process
produces high - quality
synthetic fuels from straw and other biogenous residues.
Through their partnership with Audi's
synthetic fuels programme, we may see the world's first
fuels produced directly from atmospheric CO2 as early as -LSB-...]
To improve
fuel production titer, rate, and yield (TRY), we study the
producing host and
fuel biosynthesis pathway intensively using various functional genomics tools such as targeted proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics, and engineer the metabolic pathway in the
producing host using
synthetic biology tools and systems biology.
The majority of clothing
produced today is made from
synthetic fabrics like polyester which is made from fossil
fuel chemicals.
Companies that rely on
producing biofuels and / or
synthetic hydrocarbon
fuels as a pathway to carbon removal will face increasing economic challenges with low oil prices.
A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch
synthetic liquid
fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to
produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to
produce mainly liquid
fuels.
In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean
Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100 %
synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel)
produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on... Read more →
At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting
synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are
produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.
«Why isn't Russia tripping all over itself
producing and selling cheap
synthetic fuels?»
Before much longer the cheapest
fuel will be made by
synthetic organisms with metabolisms re-designed to
produce paraffins as the primary metabolic product.
Instead of harnessing the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide into plant food, artificial photosynthesis seeks to use the same starting ingredients to
produce chemical precursors commonly used in
synthetic products as well as
fuels like ethanol.
Planes and large ships would shift to
synthetic liquid
fuels also
produced with renewable energy.
An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative
fuels, like
synthetic oil made from coal, that
produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional
fuels.
Until you understand that
fuels produced with
synthetic biology is very different from using corn, beets, or sugar cane you're not informed enough to even begin a discussion about it.
SOEC cells with a proton - conducting electrolyte can operate at lower temperatures and can be used to
produce different kinds of
synthetic fuels.
The multi-stage bioliq process
produces high - quality
synthetic fuels from straw and other biogenous residues.
China, with similarly huge reserves, is even planning to convert coal into
synthetic fuel for cars - even though such processes typically
produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
Oxygen is a required component of the gasification process, and the hydrogen will be used to enhance the quantity and quality of the
synthetic fuel produced.
The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and
synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal,
fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil
fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.
Brandt found that the Shell ICP production process has GHG emissions that are similar to those from tar sands production in Alberta; and that the mining and retorting process has emissions significantly in excess of
synthetic fuels produced from coal and over 4 times the emissions from conventional oil (Table 2).
Not biodiesel, conventional diesel
fuel: The plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using
synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to
produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.
Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are mainly
produced when chemical companies burn fossil
fuels to
produce synthetic fertilizers, and when distributors fly food around the world.