Wacker Chemie AG, a German chemical company, announced Thursday that it will build a $1 billion plant with 500 jobs in southeastern Tennessee to produce hyperpure polycrystalline silicon, a product used to make solar panels and semiconductors.
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California’s solar power market and its startups stand to gain from utilities making a direct play into renewable energy development, a prominent industry representative said in an interview yesterday.
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A UK company is using microbes designated TM242 to turn rubbish into ethanol. Ethanol has been pushed as a climate-friendly substitute for gasoline and an alternative to depending on unstable oil producing countries. In theory, using ethanol in vehicles reduces CO2 emissions, because CO2 has been absorbed by the plant used as a raw material, [...]
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new. Now, researchers in the growing field of metabolic engineering are trying to manipulate bacteria’s unique abilities to help generate energy and clean up Earth’s atmosphere.
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