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Scientists get closer to creating artificial life: study
Chicago (AFP) Dec 4, 2008
Scientists have discovered a more efficient way of building a synthetic genome that could one day enable them to create artificial life, according to a study released Wednesday. The method is already being used to help develop next generation biofuels and biochemicals in the labs of controversial celebrity US scientist Craig Venter. Venter has hailed artificial life forms as a potential ... read more
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    Analysis: Brazil says, drop ethanol tariff
    Miami (UPI) Dec 4, 2008
    Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States. The head of the Petrobras biofuel division, Alan Kardec Pinto, couched his call for lower tariffs on Brazilian ethanol in remarks on "environmental responsibility" clearly ... read more

    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

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    Enhanced R And D In Biofuel Production Attracts Investors To Latin America
    Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Nov 27, 2008
    Latin America is all set to make a splash in the global biofuels market, thanks to its inherent advantages of land availability, technological developments, agricultural knowledge, and low labor costs. Biofuel feedstock production already has a move on in Brazil and Argentina, which produce significant amounts of ethanol and soy, respectively. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Latin ... read more

    EPIC Joins Growth Energy
    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

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    Nexterra Energy To Supply Biomass Gasification System
    New Westminster, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2008
    Nexterra 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, 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

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