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Bacteria That Release Oil as They Grow

April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment

Bacteria That Release Oil as They Grow Xinyao Liu and Professor Roy Curtiss at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have coaxed photosynthetic microbes to secrete oil so bypassing energy and cost barriers that have hampered green biofuel production.  The results appeared March 29,2010 in the advanced online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy […]

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Saving the Wind

April 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Integrated Compressed Air Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES) research in development since early in 2006 is a technology centered on a simple premise – using giant wind turbines to compress and pump air into huge undersea Energy Bags™ anchored to the seabed – or geological formations where deep water is not available. The high-pressure air would […]

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