The Billion Gallon Challenge: Advanced biofuels from diverse sources such as grasses and agricultural waste hold the promise of sustainably reducing U.S. oil dependence and global warming emissions. Unfortunately the advanced biofuels industry not been able to meet the demand as set out in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The Billion Gallon Challenge is an effort to build the support and policies needed to bring the fledgling advanced biofuels industry to maturity. It also seeks to ensure that the biofuels market maximizes taxpayer investment and helps to strengthen U.S. energy and environmental security.
Recent studies have concluded that avoiding dangerous climate change will require the United States and other industrialized countries to reduce their global warming emissions approximately 80 percent below 2000 levels by mid-century. This goal is attainable, but only if we act immediately, and on multiple fronts. One major part of the climate solutions equation is a shift to renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, and bioenergy.
See: Smart Bioenergy: Guiding Sustainable Bio-based Energy and Fuels Development
Scirus is a comprehensive science and engineering specific search engine that searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites. With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Scirus is also linked from Databases/Article indexes for Engineering or it can be found by searching on our Library’s online catalog in the ‘Title’ field.
To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences
Searching for Nanotechnology Patents:
Using Advanced Searching, select ‘Patents’ as one of the ‘Information Types’ and use ‘Nanotechnlogy’ as keywords.
See: Nanotechnology patents
A resource for nanoscience and technology, the nanoHUB was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
The nanoHUB is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices. The nanoHUB also provides collaboration environment via Workspaces, Online meetings and User groups.
Resources come from over 600 contributors in the nanoscience community, and are used by thousands of users from over 170 countries around the world. Most of our users come from academic institutions and use nanoHUB as part of their research and educational activities.
With over 2,500 members & advocates, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is the hub of the wind energy industry.
AWEA promotes wind energy as a clean source of electricity for consumers around the world.
AWEA site also provides access to several online documents and resources.
These include:
among many other resources. See also: Wind Energy Case Studies to find information on how wind energy is used today in various ways around the world.
Dr. Richard Carincross, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University, is currently in El Salvador on a Fulbright Lectureship. He will be teaching a course on Renewable Energy at the University of El Salvador. He has created this blog called Sustainability and Renewable Energy In El Salvador: A Blog of Experiences on a Fulbright Lectureship in El Salvador to showcase and highlight his experiences there.
See also: Professor Cairncross Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Teach Renewable Energy at the University of El Salvador
Chempedia is the free and open chemical substance registry. It enables anyone to register, at no cost, individual substances through a Web-based interface. Each substance receives a unique, numerical, checksummed identifier that can be used anywhere and looked up at no cost. Each substance also gets a canonical URI from which everything that is known through Chempedia can be found.
Chempedia uses a streamlined from of peer review that combines concepts used in traditional peer review with experiences learned from modern social media.
Source: depth-first
USGS Minerals portal provides Statistics and information on the worldwide
supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S.
economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.
See also:
With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
I tried experimenting by searching different chemicals in Google Trends.
For example, searching for Acetic Acid, retrieved a news story about projected forecast for the world market of Acetic Acid by the year 2015.
World Market for Acetic Acid Projected to Reach 11.8 Million Tons in 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
See More News about Acetic Acid.
Some other examples:
Methanol
Ethylene Oxide
See More News about Ethylene Oxide.
Try this:
Find out which countries have people have searched for ‘Phenol’ the most?
The Chemical Database database will allow the user to retreive information for any of 25,496 hazardous chemicals or ‘generic’ entries based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS, EINECS, Beilstein and Merck). Formula are represented in Hill format for searching and a more descriptive format for viewing.
Access: The Chemical Database
See: Phenol
