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VIASPACE Targets Biofuel Market Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 VIASPACE has announced the Company is cultivating a new fast-growing hybrid grass to be used for production of cellulosic ethanol, methanol, biocrude and green gasoline. VIASPACE is taking a leadership position in the development of feedstock for sustainable biofuels, targeting the growing $25 billion global biofuels market. The Company is working to develop supply contracts with companies ... read more Indy Racing Turns Its Back On US Energy Des Moines IO (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 The American Future Fund (AFF) has launched "Race," a radio ad which urges Hoosiers to call the Indy Racing League (IRL) and tell them to continue using American ethanol in its race cars. In a multi-year deal announced on Nov. 18, the IRL named APEX-Brasil as the official ethanol supplier for the IndyCar Series. As a result, the Indy 500, an American institution, could be powered with ... read more Biofuel Plantations On Tropical Forestlands Bad For Biodiversity Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was ... read more GreenHunter BioFuels Resumes Production At Houston Biodiesel Refinery Grapevine TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 Greenhunter Biofuels gas announced that startup of biodiesel production at the Company's biodiesel refinery in Houston has been initiated following repairs and recovery from Hurricane Ike. Located along the Shipping Channel in Houston, Texas, the Company's biodiesel refinery, one of the country's largest, sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Ike in mid-September of 2008. Plant debugging ... read more Frost And Sullivan Lauds Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 The 2008 Frost and Sullivan South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award is presented to Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels (RNRF). The company is building the biggest soybean processing facility in Africa, a particularly strategic choice of location since South Africa has the greatest demand for biofuels in Southern Africa. This, together with its coherent, growth-focused ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2008 Statement from Toni Nuernberg, Executive Director, Ethanol Promotion and Information Council: I am proud to announce that the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) Board of Directors will be recommending a transition plan to EPIC's membership to join Growth Energy, a newly formed organization dedicated to the promise of agriculture and growing America's economy through cleaner ... read more Advanced Cellulose Ethanol Development Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2008 Swedish researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on development and large scale implementation of a new improved bio-technical process for production of ethanol from lignocellulose feedstocks. The development is based on Taurus' yeast technology for fermentation of both six- and five-carbon sugars. Ethanol ... read more National Algae Association Meeting The Woodlands TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2008 The National Algae Association is growing at an astronomical rate. We are the first national trade association for the algae industry in the United States. Algae is renewable, does not affect the food channel and eats C02. Due to the high cost of oil, commercializing the algae oil industry is now on a fast track. Algae can be converted into fuels such as jet fuel, biodiesel, ethanol ... read more New Generation Biofuels Announces Test Burn Agreement Lake Mary FL (SPX) Nov 24, 2008 New Generation Biofuels has announced that it has entered into a Test Burn Agreement with Progress Energy Florida to demonstrate its proprietary biofuel technology in utility boiler applications. The Agreement calls for New Generation Biofuels to supply its biofuel for a test program that will be performed in early 2009 at Progress Energy Florida's Bartow Plant in St. Petersburg. ... read more Stratos Renewables Secures Land Agreements For Sugarcane Ethanol Production Lima, Peru (SPX) Nov 26, 2008 Stratos Renewables has announced that the company has secured enough land in the northern coastal region of Peru required for the production of up to 90 million gallons per year of sugarcane-based ethanol. Stratos intends to use this land for extensive sugarcane cultivation, milling and distillation into ethanol primarily for export. Peru has historically achieved some of the highest yields ... read more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008 OriginOil 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, 2008 Significant 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 BIO Thanks Senators For Supporting Sound Scientific Review In Renewable Fuel Standard Rule Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2008 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should implement new rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in a timely manner that is consistent with the goals of achieving energy security and addressing climate change priorities. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has thanked Senators who sent a letter to EPA Administrator Johnson urging the agency to publish and seek comment on ... read more NASA Plans Test Of Electronic Nose On ISS Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2008 NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. Designed to help protect crew members' health and safety, the experimental "ENose" will monitor the space station's environment for chemicals such as ammonia, mercury, methanol and formaldehyde. The Enose fills the long ... read more |
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