LS9’s bugs are single-cell organisms, each a fraction of a billionth the size of an ant. They start out as industrial yeast or nonpathogenic strains of E. coli, but LS9 modifies them by custom-de-signing their DNA.
Using genetically modified bugs for fermentation is essentially the same as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol, although the energy-intensive final process of distillation is virtually eliminated because the bugs excrete a substance that is almost pump-ready.
The closest that LS9 has come to mass production is a 1,000-litre fermenting machine, which looks like a large stainless-steel jar, next to a wardrobe-sized computer connected by a tangle of cables and tubes. It has not yet been plugged in. The machine produces the equivalent of one barrel a week and takes up 40 sq ft of floor space.
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“We think we will have fourth-generation fuels in about 18 months, with CO2 as the fuel stock.”
Simple organisms can be genetically re-engineered to produce vaccines or octane-based fuels as waste, according to Venter. Biofuel alternatives to oil are third-generation. The next step is life forms that feed on CO2 and give off fuel such as methane gas as waste, according to Venter.
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Several years ago, SunPower, a unit of Cypress Semiconductor, (CY) realized the top metal plate was reflecting the sun’s rays, cutting efficiency by reducing the percentage of sunlight converted to electricity. So the company decided to put both plates beneath the silicon. It now has an industry-high efficiency of 22% vs. an average of 16%, says analyst Dan Ries of Monness, Crespi Hardt & Co. That means fewer panels are needed to produce power, shaving installation costs and making systems more affordable for homes, which have smaller roofs than most commercial buildings.

SunPower, which says it will earn about $90 million on $740 million in sales this year, expects its prices to be competitive with grid power by 2012, says Vice President Julie Blunden.

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It is a battery that looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed. While the battery is only a prototype a few inches (centimeters) square right now, U.S. researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed it have high hopes for it in electronics and other fields that need smaller, lighter power sources. The battery uses paper infused with an electrolyte and carbon nanotubes that are embedded in the paper. The carbon nanotubes form the electrodes, the paper is the separator and the electrolyte allows the current to flow.

Some students were working on methods to dissolve paper and cast it into membranes for use in dialysis machines. Meanwhile, other students in RPI’s materials science department were trying to make carbon nanotube composites using polymers. The two groups got together and realized they could use paper instead of polymers and combine the two projects. Then came another group of students, also at RPI, who said the project — a thin sheet black on one side and white on the other — looked like an electrical device. And over a period of about 18 months, the groups developed the projects, into a battery, a capacitor and a combination of the two.

This collaborative effort involved the Rensselaer departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center.

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So-called ‘second generation’ biofuels – made from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood – have long been touted as the successor to today’s grain ethanol, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels, according to an open access paper [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/114801267/PDFSTART] published in the first edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining – a scientific journal launched to explore the emerging bioeconomy.

The switch to second generation biofuels based on biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes will reduce competition with grain for food and feed, and allow the utilization of materials like straw which would otherwise go to waste. The biorefineries will also be able to use dedicated lignocellulosic energy crops: short-rotation trees like poplar, eucalyptus or willow, and grass species such as miscanthus, switchgrass or sudan grass, which can be grown on land less suitable for farming than traditional row crops.

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The typical Western diet may be more than just hazardous to the health of patients treated for colon cancer. New research suggests it may be deadly. Former patients in the study who ate the most red and processed meats, refined grains, fats, and sugars were about three times as likely to die or have their cancers recur as patients who ate these foods the least.

While there is no shortage of evidence linking the so-called Western diet to an increased risk for developing colon cancer, the study is among the first to examine the impact of such a diet on survival among patients treated for the disease.

The findings must be confirmed, but Dana-Farber Cancer Center oncologist Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, a researcher on the team, says they cannot be ignored by colon cancer patients or their physicians. The study appears in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” — Matthew 4:19 & Mark 1:17

The Washington Career Fellowship is being organized to serve as a comprehensive net. Ours is a program of attraction; conducted as an objective lure for the broadest possible yield. Accordingly, and for purposes of Spiritual instruction, this way of thinking extends the Fishers of Men parable to include what every fisher should know about attracting fish. As this is so very important, I have included a brief treatment on how such a program of attraction works when we are operating in the natural world. And I am praying that our Promised Helper will show you how this knowledge can be applied to things Spiritual.

The earliest treatise on fly fishing is that of Aelian. In his seventeen volumes of Natural History, probably written about 200 A.D., Aelian mixes personal observation with fact, legend and fancy drawn from earlier authors. On the finer points of fishing, he had this to say:

These flies seek their food over the river, but do not escape the observation of the fish swimming below. When then the fish observes a fly on the surface, it swims quietly up, afraid to stir the water above, lest it should scare away its prey; then coming up by its shadow, it opens its mouth gently and gulps down the fly, like a wolf carrying off a sheep from the fold or an eagle a goose from the farmyard; having done this it goes below the rippling water.
Now though the fishermen know this, they do not use these flies at all for bait for fish; for if a man’s hand touch them, they lose their natural colour, their wings wither, and they become unfit food for the fish. For this reason they have nothing to do with them, hating them for their bad character; but they have planned a snare for the fish, and get the better of them by their fisherman’s craft.
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Their rod is six feet long, and their line is the same length. Then they throw their snare, and the fish, attracted and maddened by the colour, comes straight at it, thinking from the pretty sight to gain a dainty mouthful . . .

While we recognize that there is a certain allure to all things flashy, in our community of fish there is also a profound need for augmenting the offerings of a secular world. For implicit to the concept of secularism is a lack of balance and symmetry. In contrast to the incomplete and immature world view of a secularist society, the real world consists of things, meanings and values. These components of total reality give rise to the primary intellectual disciplines of science, philosophy and religion.

Our approach is holistic. Our task is to develop a program of attraction that will strike the best balance between what is naturally appealing and spiritually edifying. The most effective lure will not be overtly religious if our mission is to reach a person that does not necessarily perceive the value. People have a need for outings that are not budget busters. They crave opportunities for socialization that are non-threatening. Everyone can improve their quality of life by adding some fun.

The Creator, Controller and Upholder of all things is certainly mindful of the great incentives for living. Our aim is to help augment and enhance the spiritual aspects of living and, through our fellowship, to address these most basic human needs in a way that is consistent with and inspired by the teachings of Jesus.

– Written by Robert H. Kalk on 8/14/2007 for the Washington Career Fellowship