A parallel bioreactor strategy to rapidly determine growth-coupling relationships for bioproduction: a mevalonate case study by Alec Banner, Joseph Webb, Nigel Scrutton

“…Abstract Background The climate crisis and depleting fossil fuel reserves have led to a drive for ‘green’ alternatives to the way we manufacture chemicals, and the formation of a bioeconomy that reduces our reliance on petrochemical-based feedstocks. …”
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Economic Analysis of Sequestering Carbon in Green Ash Forests in the Lower Mississippi River Valley by Ching-Hsun Huang, Gary D. Kronrad, Shiaolin D. Cheng

“…Electric utility companies have the options of reducing their use of fossil fuels, switching to alternative energy sources, increasing efficiency, or offsetting carbon emissions. …”
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Black Carbon and Elemental Carbon from Postharvest Agricultural-Waste Burning Emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain by Atinderpal Singh, Prashant Rajput, Deepti Sharma, M. M. Sarin, Darshan Singh

“…The mass concentrations of BC varied from 8.5 to 19.6, 2.4 to 18.2, and 2.2 to 9.4 μg m−3 during October-November (paddy-residue burning emission), December–March (emission from bio- and fossil-fuel combustion) and April-May (wheat-residue burning emission), respectively. …”
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A Polymer-Binder-Free Approach to Creating Functional LiFePO₄ Cathodes by Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal-Derived Ion-Conductive Binders by Daniela M. Josepetti, Maria Forsyth, Patrick C. Howlett, Hiroyuki Ueda

“…Lithium-ion batteries are a promising technology to promote the phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles. Increasing efforts are focused on improving their energy density and safety by replacing current materials with more efficient and safer alternatives. …”
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Azolla Plant Production and Their Potential Applications by Gamachis Korsa, Digafe Alemu, Abate Ayele

“…In the modern world, lifestyle changes, the nature of work, and food habits increase the incidence of serious diseases in animals, and human activity influences the environment, such as the use of chemical fertilizers for agriculture, large terrestrial ecosystems all over the biosphere, such as deforestation of plants, which could not sink from atmospheric CO2, and the production of fuels for energy, which would increase the need for fossil fuels but would also deliver low energy fuels at a high energy cost. …”
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Preparation of p-type Fe2O3 nanoarray and its performance as photocathode for photoelectrochemical water splitting by Xiaoli Fan, Fei Zhu, Zeyi Wang, Xi Wang, Yi Zou, Bin Gao, Li Song, Jianping He, Tao Wang

“…Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has the potential to convert solar energy into chemical energy, emerging as a promising alternative to fossil fuel combustion. In PEC systems, p-type semiconductors are particularly noteworthy for their ability to directly produce hydrogen. …”
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Environmental Assessment of the Life Cycle of Bovine Compound Feeds from a Feed Milling Plant in a Large Commercial Farm in Wielkopolska Region, Poland by Jerzy Bieńkowski, Małgorzata Holka

“…For average compound feed, the impact category indicators for the global warming potential, acidification, eutrophication, photochemical ozone formation, consumption of mineral resources, fossil fuel resources and the emission of the respirable particles were respectively: 605.9 kg CO2 eq, 8.73 kg SO2 eq, 3.32 kg PO4 eq, 0.73 kg ethylene eq, 3.4x10-3 kg antimony eq, 5141.1 MJ and 2.25 kg PM2.5 eq. …”
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Pyrolysis Kinetics of Spirulina platensis and Non-condensable Gas Product Distribution in a Fixed-Bed Reactor by Ahmad Yusril Aminullah, Sukarni Sukarni, Retno Wulandari, Muhammad Shahbaz

“…However, energy sources are dominated by non-renewable fractions, such as fossil fuels. Renewable biomass is projected to be a future fuel source. …”
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Concentrations, Deposition, and Effects of Nitrogenous Pollutants in Selected California Ecosystems by Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Pamela E. Padgett, Sally D. Parry, Mark E. Fenn, Michael J. Arbaugh

“…In southern California, most of the N air pollution is in oxidized forms as nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitric acid (HNO3), and particulate nitrate (NO3–) resulting from fossil fuel combustion and subsequent complex photochemical reactions. …”
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Modelling Seismically Induced Mesothermal Goldfields along the Deep-Rooted Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault, Abitibi, Canada by Pierre Bedeaux, Silvain Rafini, Pierre Pilote, Réal Daigneault

“…Various rheological factors are evaluated for optimizing the models’ ability to reproduce known gold occurrences, regarded as the fossil primary markers of synkinematic hydrothermal systems. …”
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Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on CO2 Emission in the World by Sahar Safarian, Runar Unnthorsson, Christiaan Richter

“…Then this indicator is calculated for 3 scenarios which are based on this disease situation worldwide and therefore based on different reduction percent of fossil fuels consumption in various sectors over year 2020. …”
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Source Impact Analysis Using Char-EC/Soot-EC Ratios in the Central Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India by Manisha Mishra, U.C. Kulshrestha

“…Cross plots of these ratios identified biomass burning and fossil-fuel combustion as the largest sources during winter and the post-monsoon season, and summer and the monsoon season, respectively. …”
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To nip it or let it bloom: Life cycle assessment of lab-scale catalysts used in low-TRL CCUS technologies by Tanisha Kar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy

“…Excessive reliance on fossil fuels results in the increasing accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, contributing to substantial global warming. …”
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State-of-the-art and future trends in electric vehicle charging infrastructure: A review by Sudev V., Sindhu M.R.

“…One of the most significant aspects of this “GO GREEN” is the sustainable mobility sector, which focuses not only on reducing the usage of fossil fuels but also on enhancing the efficiency of the transportation system. …”
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The analysis of power curves of wind power plants by A. A. Belsky, A. I. Zamyatin

“…The use of wind power plants is growing rapidly, despite the continued growth in the extraction of traditional fossil resources. In this paper, the analysis of the power curves of real wind turbine models and the polynomials common among the scientific community describing the dependence of the wind turbine output power on wind is carried out. …”
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Opinions of Forest Managers, Loggers, and Forest Landowners in North Carolina regarding Biomass Harvesting Guidelines by Diane Fielding, Frederick Cubbage, M. Nils Peterson, Dennis Hazel, Brunell Gugelmann, Christopher Moorman

“…Woody biomass has been identified as an important renewable energy source capable of offsetting fossil fuel use. The potential environmental impacts associated with using woody biomass for energy have spurred development of biomass harvesting guidelines (BHGs) in some states and proposals for BHGs in others. …”
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Source apportionment, ecological and health risks of potentially toxic elements in street dusts across different land uses in city of Kermanshah, Iran by Ali Asgari, Soheil Sobhanardakani, Mehrdad Cheraghi, Bahareh Lorestani, Maryam Kiani Sadr

“…The positive matrix factorization (PMF) model identified traffic emissions and sources, fossil fuel combustion and natural sources, and industrial emissions as the major sources of tested elements. …”
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Novel Study of Reaction Kinetics and Mass Transfer in Bioreactor Modelling: Prediction of Bioethanol Fermentation Performance by Saccharomyces cerevisiae on Continuous Fixed Bed Bi... by Christian Aslan, Hary Devianto, Vita Wonoputri, Ardiyan Harimawan

“…Bioethanol implementation as a renewable fuel has yielded economic, social, and environmental benefits, including reduced fossil fuel consumption, enhanced energy diversity and supply security, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and support for agricultural communities. …”
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Impact of Wave COVID-19 Responses on Black Carbon Air Pollution in Moscow Megacity Background by Olga B. Popovicheva, Marina A. Chichaeva, Roman G. Kovach, Ekaterina Yu. Zhdanova, Victor M. Stepanenko, Alexander Varentsov, Nikolay S. Kasimov

“…BCff component associated with emissions from fossil fuel (FF) combustion showed 100% increase. …”
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Matte separated behavior from slag during the cleaning process by using waste cooking oil as carbon neutral reductant by Wang L.-C., Wei Y.-G., Zhou S.-W., Li B., Wang H.

“…Based on the characteristics of WCO cracking, this study proposed to replace fossil-based reductant with WCO for copper slag cleaning, to solve the problem of carbon neutralization in this process. …”
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