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Massive East Timor Land-For-Biofuel Plan Raises Hackles
Dili (AFP) Jun 24, 2008East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant. The agr ... more Japan Airlines plans biofuel test flight 
Tokyo (AFP) June 23, 2008Japan Airlines (JAL) said Monday that it will join a project by US aircraft maker Boeing to test biofuel for commercial airplanes as part of efforts to cope with soaring jet fuel costs. JAL, Asia's largest carrier, will fly a Boeing 747 partly using biofuel by March next year, the company said, adding that it will be the first such flight in Asia. "The technology to produce biofuel from ... more Stratos Renewables Comments On Advantages Of Sugarcane Ethanol 
Lima, Peru (SPX) Jun 24, 2008Stratos Renewables has commented on the recent controversies surrounding the corn ethanol industry. Studies on corn ethanol published in, among other sources, Science magazine, and recent reports about the delays in the openings of corn ethanol facilities are mounting. The consensus in many of these reports is that the greenhouse gas benefits of ethanol have been greatly overstated - parti ... more Waste-to-Energy Isn't Rubbish Says BioGold Fuels 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008Never one to waste words, Steve Racoosin, CEO of BioGold Fuels has become the subject of the next AudioStocks.com interview. Renewable fuels expert, BioGold Fuels Corporation was formed via merger with Full Circle Industries in April, 2007. Their mutual goal: to reduce and eliminate trash being dumped into landfills by processing waste into usable by-products. Mr. Racoosin discusses ... more Performance Plants Establishes US Biofuels Facility 
Kingston, Canada (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Performance Plants has announced that it has established an American Research Center to develop specialized non-food crops for industries seeking renewable feedstocks for liquid transportation fuels, biochemicals and coal replacement. The facility, located in Waterloo, New York, will develop biomass feedstocks adapted to maximize cellulose energy productivity per acre on land less suitable ... more |
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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 Are Microbes The Answer To The Energy Crisis
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 09, 2008The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi to microalgae, are biological factories that are proving to efficient sources of inexpensive, environmentally friendly biofuels that can serve as alternatives to oil, according to research presented at the 108th General ... more New Farm Bill Boosts Critical Clean Energy Investments 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Today Congress overrode the Presidents veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, also known as the Farm Bill. The new legislation includes a significant clean energy development component - improved and new programs for wind power, advanced biofuels, energy efficiency, solar power and new energy crops for cleaner energy from Americas farmers, ranchers and rural businesses. ... more |
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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 US ethanol policy under siege in food-for-fuel debate 
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2008Amid a surge in food prices blamed in part on US expansion of corn-based ethanol production, lawmakers, experts and industry officials are urging the government to rethink a new law mandating alternative fuels. The United States is the world's top producer of corn-based ethanol, which the administration of President George W. Bush sees as a way of reducing dependence on foreign oil and curb ... more EU parliament calls for more research into impact of biofuels 
Strasbourg (AFP) May 21, 2008The European Parliament on Wednesday called for more research into the impact of developing biofuels to combat climate change, a strategy which has been criticised amid a world food crisis. The EU parliament "advocates additional research into the impact of the policy of promoting biofuels and their effects on the increase of deforestation, the expansion of cultivated land and world food ... more Some biofuel crops could become invasive species, experts warn 
Bonn (AFP) May 20, 2008Countries thinking of joining the rush for biofuels run the risk of planting invasive plant species that could wreak environmental and economic havoc, biologists warned on Tuesday. In a report issued on the sidelines of a major UN conference on biodiversity, an alliance of four expert groups urged governments to select low-risk species of crops for biofuels and impose new controls to manage ... more
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