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SunEthanol Changes Name To Qteros
Hadley MA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008SunEthanol has raised $25 million in Series B financing from a consortium including BP and Soros Fund Management LLC, and is changing its name effective immediately to Qteros. The new name refers to its breakthrough Q Microbe(TM) technology for producing sustainable liquid fuel from non-food plants and wastes. Leading the Series B financing is new investor Venrock, with previous investor ... read more Nexterra Energy To Supply Biomass Gasification System 
New Westminster, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2008Nexterra Energy has announced that it has been selected by Kruger Products to supply a biomass gasification system for its tissue mill in New Westminster, B.C. The new system will be the first of its kind in the pulp and paper industry. Kruger Products is Canada's leading paper tissue manufacturer. Kruger operates facilities in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and ... read more OriginOil Named Among Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008OriginOil has announced that the company has been named as one of the Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies by the New Energy Congress. NEC ranks OriginOil as the top algae company. The New Energy Congress is an association of energy professionals from around the world who review the most promising claims to existing and up-and-coming energy technologies that are clean, renewable, affordable ... read more Food Insecurity Complicates Land Use For Biofuel Feedstock Production 
Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Nov 21, 2008Significant potential exists for additional crop production in Southern Africa based on land availability. However, growing crops for biofuel feedstock will only be realised if there is concerted effort from key stakeholders to address the food shortages in the region. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Opportunities for Biofuel Feedstock Production in Southern Africa, finds that the ... read more Brazil Says Ethanol Having Little Impact On Amazon Basin 
Miami (UPI) Nov 19, 2008 Increasing ethanol production in Brazil will not lead to greater deforestation of the Amazon, as some critics of the world's largest ethanol exporter contend, according to a top Brazilian official at the outset of a five-day international biofuel conference in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff, the chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told representatives from 40 ... read more |
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Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 13, 2008Air New Zealand and Boeing have announced Dec. 3 as the date for the airline's sustainable biofuels flight from Auckland using a 747-400 jetliner. Conducted in partnership with Rolls-Royce and UOP, a Honeywell company, one of the airplane's four Rolls-Royce RB211 engines will be powered in part using advanced generation biofuels derived from jatropha. Air New Zealand now becomes the first ... read more South Dakota: A Leader In Consumer Choice At The Pump 
Sioux Falls SD (SPX) Nov 13, 2008Consumers in South Dakota are reaping the benefits of the blender pump program offered by the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council (SDCUC) and the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). Forty-five stations have filed applications to receive grants to install blender pumps and to date, 34 stations are operational. For years, E10 (10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline) and E85 ... read more BIO Urges EPA To Complete Review Before Publishing Emission Estimates For Biofuels 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2008The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must establish a sound, science-based model for measuring net greenhouse gas emissions related to biofuels production before releasing estimates that may understate the positive role biofuels play in reducing climate change emissions. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) released a letter sent to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson on ... read more Scientific Community Called Upon To Resolve Debate On Net Energy 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2008"Net energy is a (mostly) irrelevant, misleading and dangerous metric," says Professor Bruce Dale, editor-in-chief of Biofuels, Bioresources and Biorefining (Biofpr) in the latest issue of the journal. Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientist ... read more Fill her up please, and make it myco-diesel 
Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2008Will the Ferrari of tomorrow be fungus-powered? A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term "myco-diesel" -- a derivation of the word for fungus -- to describe the bouquet of hydrocarbons that it ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2008In August Gasrec, Veolia Environmental Services and Iveco announced the beginning of a commercial trial of a CBM-powered street cleansing vehicle in Camden that could drastically reduce society's reliance on fossil fuels. Further to that announcement, Gasrec and The London Borough of Camden have announced Gasrec's successful installation of London's first biogas fueling station at the ... read more Siemens USDA ARS Second Gen Biofuel Feedstocks Pilot Plant 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 22, 2008Siemens Energy and Automation and the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that will improve the processes used to convert second generation, non-food-based, biofuel feedstocks, including perennial grasses, animal wastes and agricultural residues such as corn stover, into ... read more Biodiesel Derived From Pennycress 
Albany NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2008Innovation Fuels has announced that it is conducting the first pilot program across New York State to plant the oilseed crop pennycress with the intent of producing biodiesel. Among the selected planting sites will be two acres on the campus of Morrisville State College in Morrisville, NY. This marks the first effort in United States history where non-edible pennycress has been planted to ... read more Green Star One Step Closer To Marketing Algae Booster 
Kansas City MO (SPX) Oct 17, 2008Green Star Products has announced that a major breakthrough had been achieved, which substantially increases the algae production rate of certain strains of microalgae. This all natural growth formula is now being studied on five continents. The first preliminary tests of the growth formula have come from John A. Lednicky PhD, principal scientist at Midwest Research Institute (MRI). ... read more More Flexible Method Floated To Produce Biofuels, Electricity 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 17, 2008Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that could supply up to 20 percent of transportation fuels in the United States annually. The method offers a potential solution to problems that might be created by increasing production of ethanol ... read more
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