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Greenpeace wants moratorium on oil palm expansion in Indonesia
Jakarta (AFP) April 21, 2008
Greepeace called for a moratorium Monday on the expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia's rainforests and peatlands, warning that soaring world demand is creating an environmental crisis. It said a two-year investigation into the health of the country's rainforests and peatlands showed "wholesale" destruction driven by demand from food, cosmetic and biofuel companies. "Given the ... read more
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    Hannover Messe 2008: Experts To Outline Potential Of Alternative Fuels
    Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2008
    The rising price of gasoline and concern about greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are bringing fuel efficiency to the forefront in Germany. Fuel efficiency and alternative fuels will be topics of an expert panel at the Clean Moves Exposition during the Hannover Messe on April 23, 2008 at 10:30am. Alternative fuels are playing a significant role in reducing auto emissions. Research is developing ... more

    Biogas Production Is All In The Mixing
    St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 22, 2008
    Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm waste treatment. Anaerobic digesters employ reactors that use bacteria to break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen. They are studying ways to take "the smell of ... more

    Biotechnology Is Accelerating The Evolution Of Advanced Biofuels
    Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2008
    Biotechnology is delivering solutions to rapidly rising demand for both food and biofuels through improvements in current biofuel production, commercialization of cellulosic and other advanced biofuels, and increased production of food and energy crops on existing land. Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO's Industrial and Environmental Section, released the following statement ... more

    Biofuels under attack as world food prices soar
    Paris (AFP) April 20, 2008
    Hailed until only months ago as a silver bullet in the fight against global warming, biofuels are now accused of snatching food out of the mouths of the poor. Billions have been poured into developing sugar- and grain-based ethanol and biodiesel to help wean rich economies from their addiction to carbon-belching fossil fuels, the overwhelming source of man-made global warming. Heading ... more

    Germany touts wood residue, straw and sour milk as biofuel sources
    Berlin (AFP) April 17, 2008
    Rapeseed and sugar cane are out, making way for wood, straw and curdled milk to play key roles as future biofuel energy sources that would not starve the planet by taking over land need for food. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on hand Thursday with the heads of automakers Daimler and Volkswagen to inaugurate what was billed as the world's first refinery of "second generation" biofuels ... more

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    New Small Scale Ethanol Plants Using Highly Efficient Waste
    Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    A state of the art waste to ethanol process was recently introduced by Diversified Ethanol Corporation, a clean tech provider. Diversified Ethanol designs and builds small scale, modular ethanol plants that utilize existing waste as feedstocks which can be converted into ethanol. For example, using their proprietary technology, breweries, beverage recycling and food processing facilities ... more

    EU defends biofuel goals amid food crises
    Brussels (AFP) April 14, 2008
    The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package. "There is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for biofuels," said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. "You can't change a political ... more

    Verenium Announces Start-Up Of Its Demonstration-Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
    Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    Verenium has announced that it has achieved a key development milestone with its demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Jennings, Louisiana with commencement of the transition to "startup" phase. With this phase of the project now effective, the site has been electronically energized and the turnover of individual systems to start-up and operating teams has begun so that the function ... more

    Money Doesn't Grow On Trees, But Gasoline Might
    Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry and Sustainability, Energy and Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee ... more

    New Method Rapidly Produces Low-Cost Biofuels From Wood, Grass
    Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 14, 2008
    George Huber of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $400,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue his revolutionary new method for making biofuels, or "green gasoline," from wood or grasses, a process that would be much less expensive than conventional gasoline or ethanol made from corn. Results of Huber's research were published in the April 2008 ... more

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    China's Avant-Garde Agrarian Policies Provide Fresh Impetus To Its Biofuel Market
    Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
    China's quest for renewable energy options has opened new avenues for its biofuel market. The country has been intensifying efforts to find suitable solutions to address its energy concerns, and biofuels have emerged as an obvious solution, as they do not exhibit the detrimental climate changing effects associated with fossil fuels. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Strategic Analysis ... more

    Gulf Ethanol Central American Mission A Success
    Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2008
    Gulf Ethanol has met with government officials, investors and industry partners in Central America to discuss plans to manufacture biofuels in Central America. Central America has abundant sources of biomass. Negotiations identified a strong demand for biodiesel production in Costa Rica along with available, low cost, feedstock to produce it. "We see this opportunity as a healthy expansion ... more

    Germany drops plan for auto biofuel
    Berlin (AFP) April 4, 2008
    Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Friday that Germany would scrap plans to develop auto biofuels because they were not appropriate for millions of vehicles. "We will not do it," Gabriel told the television channel ARD. The VDIK association of foreign automakers said that around 3.3 million vehicles were unable to use the mix of ethanol and traditional petrol that Berlin sought to ... more

    German auto industry says ready for biofuel ramp-up
    Frankfurt (AFP) April 3, 2008
    Germany's automakers association played down concerns Thursday that large numbers of cars would be incompatible with a new biofuel mix that the government wants to introduce to cut emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants to double the proportion of biofuel in petrol to 10 percent by 2010 as part of the country's efforts to fall in with European Union aims to reduce the bloc's ... more

    Sandia's Fleet Services Department Exceeds DOE Fuel And Energy Efficiency Standards
    Albuquerque NM (SPX) Apr 03, 2008
    Sandia National Laboratories Fleet Services Department has exceeded fuel and energy efficiency standards set by the Department of Energy, one of a few organizations to do so in the nuclear weapons complex. By making a conscious effort to reduce the use of petroleum fuels and increase the use of gasoline enhanced with ethanol and alternative fuel vehicles, Sandia has met - and even exceeded ... more

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