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Start-up to produce cheaper ethanol with microbe

Start-up to produce cheaper ethanol with microbeNo where near ready for commercial useIn fact not a bit closer than it was two years ago. Move along folks, nothing here worth your time.Could be a a disaster of Biblical proportions...If this microbe can be self-sustaining in our environment, it could...

Tags: Q Microbe, Ethanol

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

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Small differences can make a BIG difference

I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....

Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Bacteria to protect against quakes

If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid, with some disastrous consequences for the buildings sitting on them. But now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-02-25

A TIGER to track pathogens

TIGER, short for "Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks," is a tool used by several U.S. labs which need to quickly identify pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that cause disease. In TIGER Technique Targets Plant Pathogens, the USDA/Agricultural Research Service ARS says that this detection tool...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature, Tiger

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, December 7, 2006

Update: Its Thursday today, not Wednesday. Im trying to squeeze extra days out of the week. Ive been remiss in my UDDs and while Ive been silent people building RIAs seem to have gotten much bigger spurred by the release of WPF/E on Monday. Its great to see...

Tags: Ive, WPF/E, SAP, Universal Desktop Daily, Ajax, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Flash, Flex, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Extra passengers scheduled on Atlantis

NASA's Atlantis next mission, which is scheduled for August 27, not only will carry human astronauts to the International Space Station ISS, but several kinds of microbes. In "Microscopic Passengers To Hitch Ride On Space Shuttle," the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University writes that these microbes have been identified...

Tags: microbe, NASA, Fluid Processing Apparatus, Group Activation Pack

Blog posts 2006-08-25

Spying an intelligent search engine

Spying an intelligent search engineFusion Poweris just around the corner! Just repeat this for over 50 years and that's where AI is heading (Within 10 years! - yawn). Until and unless we find a way to model the human mind - it's all B.S.AI and `spying'It would appear that the...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, intelligent search engine

Discussion threads 2006-08-18

Cleaning uranium waste with bacteria

Nuclear bombs can kill people even if they're not used. In the U.S. alone, the Department of Energy estimates that more than 2,500 billion liters of groundwater are contaminated with uranium as a consequence of nuclear weapons production. In "Uranium 'pearls' before slime," scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...

Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, bacteria, it.For Shewanella

Blog posts 2006-08-12

Bacteria can build nanowires

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have discovered that under certain conditions, some very common bacteria can form nanowires. These bacteria were able to produce nanowires as small as 10 nanometers in diameter, but which can reach hundreds of microns in length. What is interesting here is that...

Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, bacteria

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Photo: Studying uranium-trapping microbes

Georgia Tech scientists study microbe with digestive byproducts that could ease nuclear-spill cleanups.

Tags: Georgia Tech, cleanup, scientist, photograph

Image galleries 2006-05-22

Photo: Studying uranium-trapping microbes

Georgia Tech scientists study microbe with digestive byproducts that could ease nuclear-spill cleanups.

Tags: Georgia Tech, cleanup, scientist, photograph

Image galleries 2006-05-22

The next little thing: replacing oil

J. Craig Venter, the mecurial founder of Celera who can at least take credit for speeding up the pace of progress on the Human Genome, is back with a new project, the Washington Post reports: designing a bioengineered microbe that will allow sea plants to generate ethanol. And Venter...

Tags: Aristides Patrinos, Venter

Blog posts 2006-02-27

Is there really life on Earth?

Obviously, the answer is yes. But if we compare topographic maps of Earth and Mars, the answer is less evident, according to researchers from the University of California at Berkeley. They've found that landscapes on the two planets are often very similar, from rounded hills to meandering stream channels or...

Tags: erosion

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Image-handling flaws put Windows PCs at risk

Image-handling flaws put Windows PCs at riskThe real critical flaw .....is buying this crap!That's why the irrelevant PhP vulnerability was pushed so hardby zdnet ;;-) They would have to prepare people's moods and tastes for YACMSF Yet Another Critical MS Flaw I am sure that will mitigate somehow the impact...

Tags: SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, flaw, critical flaw, Windows PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2005-11-08

Nanotech bill gets Bush's approval

Nanotech bill gets Bush's approvalsome of thise is scarry" President Bush signs a bill that will provide $3.7 billion over four years to research and promote the commercial evolution of nanotechnology."small camera's and tracking device nano sizeWell, it's better than spending...the money to build more nukes...we need powerful technologyArchimedes invented...

Tags: nanotechnology, Archimedes

Discussion threads 2003-12-05