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Obama names agriculture, interior picks
Chicago (AFP) Dec 16, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday filled out his incoming cabinet with nominees to take over the agriculture and interior departments, two hot-button jobs where controversy is never far. The Democrat nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar ... read more
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    Obama rounds out cabinet, games out global crises
    Chicago (AFP) Dec 17, 2008
    President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday filled out his incoming cabinet with picks for agriculture and interior, while stepping up his contingency planning for a post-inauguration emergency. The Democrat nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar ... read more

    New method of killing bacteria is created
    Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Dec 16, 2008
    U.S. scientists say they have developed a method of "fooling" a bacterium's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death. Researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst said their achievement shows a synthetic "hole punching" anti-microbial depends upon the presence of phosphoethanolamine -- a cone-shaped lipid found within ... read more

    VIASPACE Plants Biofuel And Animal Feed Grass
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008
    VIASPACE has announced that it has planted 1.2 million seedlings of its proprietary fast-growing China Giant King Grass near the IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. Giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass which is propagated from seedlings rather than seeds. In tropical and subtropical areas such as Southern China, it can yield four crops per year and up to 156 tons of ... read more

    Sweden Offers World-Class Cleantech Solutions For The Future
    Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 12, 2008
    Sweden is a world leader in bioenergy and renewable vehicle fuels, and is the fastest growing windpower market in Europe. There are excellent investment opportunities for Indian investors, as Sweden can offer innovative and sustainable cleantech solutions for the future. Major Swedish cities have integrated the planning of transport and traffic, water and sewage treatment, waste collection ... read more

    Replacing Corn With Perennial Grasses Improves Carbon Footprint Of Biofuels
    Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2008
    Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where - and which - biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month. The researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies to determine how planting new biofuel crops can influence the carbon content of the soil. Their findings will appear next month in ... read more

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    Frost And Sullivan Award Honours Global Biofuels
    London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2008
    The 2008 Sub-Saharan Africa Biofuel Emerging Company Award is presented to Global Biofuels Limited of Nigeria in recognition of its commitment to producing biofuel, promoting the socio-economic upliftment of Nigerians and reducing greenhouse gases as set out in the Kyoto protocol. "Global Biofuels Limited is establishing the first refinery for the production of bioethanol from sweet ... read more

    Continental Airlines Will Start 2009 With Flight Powered By Biofuels
    Houston TX (SPX) Dec 12, 2008
    Continental Airlines has announced plans for the first biofuel-powered demonstration flight of a U.S. commercial airliner, to be conducted in Houston on Jan. 7, 2009. The demonstration flight, which will be operated with no passengers, will be powered by a special fuel blend including components derived from algae and jatropha plants - sustainable, second-generation fuel sources that don't ... read more

    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

    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

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    Central Florida Pipeline System Begins Ethanol Transport
    Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008
    Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced it is now transporting commercial batches of denatured ethanol along with gasoline shipments in its 16-inch Central Florida Pipeline (CFPL) between Tampa and Orlando, Fla., making CFPL the first transmarket gasoline pipeline in the United States to do so. Kinder Morgan has invested approximately $10 million to modify the line for ethanol shipment ... read more

    Green Star Announces Odessa Biodiesel Plant Completed
    Odessa WA (SPX) Nov 27, 2008
    Green Star Products has announced that the Inland Empire Oilseeds Biodiesel Facility in Odessa, Washington is completed. Its initial continuous acceptance run produced 36,000 gallons of spec biodiesel to complete GSPI's contractual obligations. The biodiesel fuel was tested by an independent certified lab. The certificate of analysis No. 111208030 reported that all ASTM 6751 specifications ... read more

    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

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