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Hungarian "Solo" concept car, super-light and super-ecological
Budapest (AFP) June 17, 2008The prototype for a new Hungarian car that can reach 140 kilometres per hour while only consuming between 1.5 and two litres of ethanol per 100 kilometres, was unveiled Tuesday in Budapest. The smooth,oval-shaped "Solo," developed by Hungarian company Antro and presented Tuesday at Budapest's Museum of Transport, is just over three metres long, less than two metres wide and can carry up to ... more PG And E Adds 106.8 MW Of Renewable Solar Hybrid Power 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Continuing its momentum of adding utility-scale solar power to its energy mix, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced that it has entered into two contracts with San Joaquin Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer Renewables Electricity, for a combined 106.8 megawatts (MW) of solar thermal-biofuel hybrid power. Located near Coalinga, CA, the solar-biofuel projects will deliver a total of 7 ... more Is New Transport Fuels Worth The Wait 
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 16, 2008New biofuels mandates will be essential to getting the industry up and running, proponents argue, but whether the harms outweigh the benefits is still up for debate. One of the major controversies swirling around the new law, passed by Congress in December, is its effect on food prices. As both gas and grocery bills rise worldwide, the argument has become increasingly heated, but the ... more Ethanol-gas mix may lead to poor mileage 
Albuquerque (UPI) Jun 13, 2008 An ethanol-gasoline blend sold at New Mexico gas stations reduces an engine's power, leading to poorer vehicle mileage, AAA said. In addition, the state environmental department said E-10 -- a 10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline mix -- while reducing emissions of some hazardous pollutants, increases emissions of others, the Albuquerque Journal reported Friday. "Recent studie ... more Analysis: Brazil's leader defends ethanol 
Miami (UPI) Jun 11, 2008 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the world's oil companies are behind the bad press regarding his country's ethanol sector, denying claims by some that the industry uses slave labor and is responsible for deforestation in the Amazon. Da Silva, an ardent supporter of Brazilian ethanol, made defending the world's leading producer of the biofuel one of the focal points of ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2008Clean diesel technology powered the top three winning vehicles and 12 of 17 entries overall in a national engineering competition known as Challenge X to design the green cars of the future. Today we have a glimpse of the leading technologies that will power our future cars, trucks and SUVs, and its no surprise that the winner was a clean diesel engine running on renewable biofuels, couple ... more First Draft Of Oil Palm Genome Completed 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SPX) May 27, 2008Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd (ACGT), which is focused on the commercial application of genome technology to improve oil palm and other crops and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), a privately held company dedicated to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address global energy and environmental challenges, has announced the completion of a first draft assembly and annotation of ... more UN food expert wants halt to biofuel investment 
Geneva (AFP) May 22, 2008New investments and subsidies favouring the production of biofuels should be frozen in an effort to curb food price rises, the United Nations' new independent expert on the right to food said Thursday. Such a move could send a strong signal that the price of food crops will not keep rising, and thus halt speculation, Olivier De Schutter told a special UN Human Rights Council session on the ... more Energy Crops Take A Roasting 
Leeds, UK (SPX) May 23, 2008A process used to roast coffee beans could give Britain's biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some of the UKs leading energy crops by up to 20 per cent. The study, carried out by engineers from the University of Leeds, examined the combustion behaviour of crops grown specifically for energy creation when put through a mild thermal process called 'torrefaction - more ... more Centia Advanced Biofuels Process Awarded Development Grant 
Gilbert AZ (SPX) May 23, 2008Centia has been awarded a $200k development grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. The Centia process can take any renewable oil input source (e.g., oils derived from agriculture crops, algae, animal fats, waste greases, etc.) and produce transportation fuels that are 1-for-1 replacements for petroleum-based jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline. Fuels produced from Centia could be ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) May 17, 2008Biofuels must not deprive the world's poor of food, a senior European official said, as he proposed a greater focus on second-generation biofuels that would be more environmentally friendly. Guenter Verheugen, a vice president of the European Commission, was speaking against a background of growing doubts about whether the European Union should continue a policy of elevating biofuels to an ... more Biodiesel Glycerin To Energy 
Hartfield VA (SPX) May 15, 2008XcelPlus Global Holdings has announce the acquisition of a new alternative energy fuel technology and process that enables glycerin, a byproduct from bio-diesel production, to be converted to a fuel suitable for use in turbine engines. Gly-Clene , as the new product is called, was developed by Maverick BioFuels as a new alternative energy source. This fuel can be made from any crude glycerine ... more World faces choice between higher energy, food costs: experts
Singapore (AFP) May 15, 2008The world must choose between higher energy prices or rising food costs, experts said Thursday, arguing that the use of farm land to make biofuels was likely to continue amid strong energy demand. Biofuels are among the factors blamed for escalating global prices of foodstuffs including corn, rice and wheat. The rising cost of such staples has sparked protests in many countries, including in ... more Walker's World: Building with BRICs 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 The concept of the BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- was coined five years ago in a research paper from the Goldman Sachs investment bank. This week, reality takes over from theory as the foreign ministers of the BRIC countries hold their first formal meeting in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. They convene with an agenda that includes the issue of biofuels, food ... more Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage 
Bangkok (AFP) May 13, 2008Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis -- in part because the regime has been forcing some farmers to stop growing rice in a plan to produce biofuel instead. In 2005 the military government's leader Than Shwe ordered a national drive to plant jatropha, a poisonous nut he hoped would be the cornerstone of a state industry that would capitalise on growing ... more
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