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Oklahoma Set To Plant First-Ever 1,000 Acre Switchgrass Field
Ardmore OK (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Oklahoma has secured land for the worlds largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production. Acknowledging concerns over ethanol production impacting food prices, Oklahoma advances switchgrass, a different type of energy crop, which has higher energy output than corn and does not compete with human or animal food sources. The Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC) ... more Coskata Chooses Site For Commercial Demonstration Facility To Produce Next-Gen Ethanol 
Madison PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Coskata has said it will produce 40,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year at a commercial demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The $25 million project will be located at the Westinghouse Plasma Center, the current site of a pilot-plant gasifier owned and operated by Westinghouse Plasma Corporation (WPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alter Nrg Corp. "Coskata has been eager to reach this ... more BP, Santelisa Vale, And Maeda Unveil Plans To Invest In Biofuels 
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 29, 2008BP has announced that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, which is constructing a 435 million liter (115 million gallons) a year ethanol refinery in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil. The joint venture, in which Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group would each hold 25 per cent, also intends ... more Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 27, 2008Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber plantations, is worsening global warming, species loss and poverty ... more Direct Fuels To Produce Biodiesel At North Texas Facility 
Euless TX (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Direct Fuels has opened a biodiesel production facility at its refinery in Euless, Texas. This makes the company one of two producers of biodiesel in North Texas, yet the only one located at a fuel terminal so biodiesel can be blended directly into petroleum diesel, as per customer need. Direct Fuels has implemented a production technology that allows significant flexibility in terms of ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) April 21, 2008Greepeace 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 ... more Hannover Messe 2008: Experts To Outline Potential Of Alternative Fuels 
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The 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, 2008Engineers 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, 2008Biotechnology 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, 2008Hailed 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 |
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Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 15, 2008A 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, 2008The 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, 2008Verenium 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, 2008Researchers 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, 2008George 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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