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Britain to slow adoption of biofuels
London (AFP) July 7, 2008
The British government said Monday it would slow the expansion of biofuels following a report which found they could increase greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to food price rises. Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly said a review had not recommended a temporary halt to the use of biofuels, which are sourced from organic materials such as palm oil and sugar beet. But she said that while ... read more
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    Ethanol Byproduct Produces Green Results
    Prosser WA (SPX) Jul 07, 2008
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    EU ministers 'discover' biofuels not an obligation after all
    Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008
    European Union energy ministers said at an informal meeting Saturday they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels. What seems to be a stunning misreading on the part of policymakers in Brussels comes at a time when the image of biofuels has shifted over a matter of a months ... more

    Biofuel waste becomes valuable chemicals
    Houston (UPI) Jul 3, 2008
    U.S. chemical engineers say they have developed a technology for cleanly converting problematic biofuel wastes into valuable organic acids. Rice University researchers said their techniques promise to change the economics of biodiesel refining by a fermentation process that allows E. coli and other enteric bacteria to convert glycerin -- the major waste byproduct of biodiesel production ... more

    Weather clouds future of biofuels
    New York (UPI) Jul 1, 2008
    U.S. energy experts say recent storms and flooding highlight the risk of the nation's increasing reliance on corn for fuel. The cost of filling U.S. gas tanks could soon be influenced "as much by hail in Iowa as by the bombing of an oil pipeline in Nigeria," The New York Times reported Tuesday. "We are holding ourselves hostage to the weather," ethanol expert John M. Reilly of ... more

    Quest for renewable energy is new 'green gold rush': UNEP
    Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008
    A 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

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    Japan Airlines plans biofuel test flight
    Tokyo (AFP) June 23, 2008
    Japan 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, 2008
    Stratos 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, 2008
    Never 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, 2008
    Performance 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

    Brazil's Petrobras to start biofuel sales in Japan: report
    Tokyo (AFP) June 18, 2008
    Brazil'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

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    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, 2008
    The 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, 2008
    Today 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

    Demand for biofuels boosting food prices
    Rome (UPI) May 29, 2008
    The United Nations said food prices are being pushed higher by weather-related crop shortages and high demand for biofuels. A report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, released ahead of the upcoming conference on World Food Security in Rome, said urgent measures are needed to boost agricultural production and protect the poor from being hurt by high food prices. "The ... more

    Clean Diesel Wins Future Car National Engineering Challenge X
    Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2008
    Clean 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

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