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Quest for renewable energy is new 'green gold rush': UNEP
Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008A green "gold rush" is underway, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Tuesday as it announced a 60 percent rise in new investment entering the sustainable energy sector in 2007. More than 148 billion dollars (93 billion euros) of new funds were ploughed into the quest for cleaner energy last year. The current demand for solar, wind and biofuel energy is powered by prevailing climate ... more Kenya greenlights sugar power project 
Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008Kenya has given the green light to a project where sugar will be grown to generate power in coastal wetlands, despite objections by environmentalists, its government said Tuesday. The 24-billion-shilling (369.3-million-dollar or 235-million-euro) Tana Integrated Sugar Project will mill 8,000 tonnes of sugar cane daily, generate 34 megawatts of electrity and produce 23 million litres of ethanol ... more Abandoned Farmlands Are Key To Sustainable Bioenergy 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with food production and ... more 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 |
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Tokyo (AFP) June 18, 2008Brazil's state-controlled energy company Petrobras will begin sales of biofuel for motor vehicles in Japan as early as this year, a report said Wednesday. Petrobras, one of the world's largest biofuel producers, will supply gasoline blended with ethanol to independent gas stations, which number 10,000 in Japan, the Nikkei business daily said without citing sources. The wholesale price is ... more 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 |
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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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