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That they have the potential to produce cheaper electricity than coal-fired generators can SUNLIGHT is free, but that is no reason to waste it. Yet even the best silicon solar cells—by far the most common sort—convert only a quarter of the light that falls on them. Silicon has the merit of being cheap: manufacturing improvements

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that nearly 14 percent of land in the continental United States, or roughly the combined area of Texas and New Mexico, could be used for converting algae to transportation fuels. In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energyestimated that for algae fuel to replace all the petroleum fuel

Scientists discover variant plants with straw that is more easily digested for biofuel production Critically the plants are not significantly smaller or weaker than normal plants The discovery could make biofuels from plant residues easier and cheaper to make, reducing pressure on food crops used for biofuels Manufacturing biofuels from food crop by-products such as

UCSF Approach Could Improve Safety, Decrease Costs Of Drug Development A new set of computer models has successfully predicted negative side effects in hundreds of current drugs, based on the similarity between their chemical structures and those molecules known to cause side effects, according to a paper appearing online this week in the journal Nature.

A discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made, University of Utah medical researchers have identified a way to treat inflammation while potentially minimizing a serious side effect of

To increase the city’s dismal recycling rates, Houston’s government is trying something else: One Bin for All. It will collect all trash together in one bin and then convert it to biofuel. Houston, Texas, has a recycling problem. The city has a fairly dismal recycling rate of 14%, caused in part by the fact that

America’s current energy boom may take a new direction thanks to the discovery of a new way to turn raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel. In the March 14 issue of Science magazine, chemists from Brigham Young University and The Scripps Research Institute detail a process that could reduce dependence on petroleum. The most unexpected