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Volvo Trucks is now taking the next concrete step towards carbon dioxide-neutral road transport. Within the framework of a broad-based joint project, field tests are being conducted with 14 trucks running on Bio-DME - a fuel that combines a low environmental imprint with high energy efficiency. In August 2007, Volvo Group unveiled seven demo trucks from Volvo Trucks each running on a ... read more
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2009Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart's Global Biofuels Center. Leading the expansion is the United States with a growth of total biofuels use of more than 35%. Brazil will grow ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2009Advanced biofuel producers announced the formation of the Low Carbon Synthetic Fuels Association (LCSFA), with members including TRI, Rentech Inc., Velocys, CHOREN, Flambeau River Biofuels/Johnson Timber, AP Fuels and World GTL. The LCSFA was formed to address existing legislative and regulatory inequities that have slowed or even hindered the development of advanced biofuels. ... more 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 02, 2009More of the fertilizers and pesticides used to grow corn would find their way into nearby water sources if ethanol demands lead to planting more acres in corn, according to a Purdue University study. The study of Indiana water sources found that those near fields that practice continuous-corn rotations had higher levels of nitrogen, fungicides and phosphorous than corn-soybean rotations. ... more 
Singapore (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Singaporean and Swiss scientists say using trash to produce biofuels might help solve the world's growing energy crisis and also reduce carbon emissions. The researchers said current biofuels produced from crops require an increase in crop production, which has its own severe environmental costs. However, second-generation biofuels, such as cellulosic ethanol derived from processed ... more |
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Mumbai (AFP) Sept 15, 2009It's a question that has left the best minds in India scratching their heads: how to harvest the coconut crop when no one either wants or knows how to climb trees any more. But officials in Kerala, the southern agricultural state famed for laid-back tourism at its tropical beaches, are hoping new technology can be harnessed to solve the problem. They have announced a six-month ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2009"Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide", Professor John Cushman of the University of Nevada told the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The current major limitation of biofuel production is the lack of adequate feedstocks, soybeans ... more 
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Sep 08, 2009For the first time in its 31-year history, the world's largest rally competition, formerly known as Paris-Dakar, will include in its 2010 edition a category in which competing vehicles will run on ethanol. The new category was introduced by the organizers at the request of Brazilian rally veteran and former Paris-Dakar winner Klever Kolberg, who will drive the first-ever flex-fuel vehicle ... more |
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