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BSI publishes net zero blueprint for scaling industrial biotechnology sector

Business Green

National standards body partners with government innovation agency InnovateUK and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum on major new report setting out full potential for bio feedstocks.

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New funding to support growth of Scotland’s bioeconomy

Envirotec Magazine

New funding available from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) aims to help grow Scotland’s bioeconomy. Initiatives that have secured funding previously include a wide range of industrial biotechnology applications – from low-carbon construction materials made from bacteria to lithium-ion batteries derived from seaweed.

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Data driven methods to boost microalgae production and CO2 capture

Envirotec Magazine

The measurement technologies to be developed in the project will be applicable also for other biotechnological processes. Industrial biotechnology is becoming more and more an important part of sustainable industrial practices. In ROBA, a series of optical and other online methods will be explored.

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How Hydrogen is Changing Hollywood

Hydrogen Fuel News

An article from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) shows that diesel generators account for approximately 59% of an institution’s annual carbon footprint, equating to around 1460.20 Research from ScienceDirect reveals substantial air pollutant emissions from captive diesel generators.

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Making biofuels from seawater rather than crude oil

Envirotec Magazine

It is possible to replicate the exact same molecules we harvest from crops to make high value compounds by exploiting this biological process by taking the genes out of the plant and inserting the information into bacteria. Biotechnology- reducing environmental impact.

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Tens of thousands of Scottish students favouring renewables studies

Business Green

Thirty-three Scottish colleges and universities responded to a Freedom of Information request submitted as part of research conducted by trade body Scottish Renewables to provide figures from a wide range of renewables-related courses, including engineering, mathematics, and finance courses which now include an element on renewables.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Cheap electricity also will drive synthetic biology — the intersection of information and biotechnologies, where Moore's Law meets Mendel , the father of genetics. As we try to anticipate a resilient, reliable, secure, sustainable and prosperous future, we also have the chance to incubate and create that future.