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 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (AFP) Oct 22, 2009 
Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists. She is one of the casualties of the boom in palm oil -- used extensively for biofuel and processed food like margarine -- which has seen swathes of jungle felled in Borneo, an island split between Malaysia and ... read more
Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2009US experts warn that rules governing biofuel production encourage deforestation and mean the technology is therefore a "false" method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In a study to be published Friday in the US journal Science, a group of 13 scientists called for the rules, which contain a loophole exempting carbon dioxide emitted by bioenergy regardless of its source, to be overturned. ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Oct 23, 2009The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint. Paul Steele, who heads IATA's environmental initiatives, told reporters in New Delhi biofuel would be certified "by the end of next year". Certification is widely regarded as a first technical step that ... more
Upton NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2009Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin - the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance found in cork. While effective at keeping wine inside a bottle, suberin's most important function in plants is to control water and nutrient transportation and keep pathogens out. Adjusting the ... more 
Landover MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, Ohio, was one of five winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production. Cellulosic biofuels can be derived from a diverse number of feedstocks including switchgrass, woodchips, and agricultural residues. ... more |
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Ruston, La. (UPI) Oct 12, 2009 U.S. scientists say they are using nanotechnology to improve the cellulosic ethanol processes involved in producing biofuels. Louisiana Tech Professors James Palmer, Yuri Lvov, Dale Snow and Hisham Hegab say biofuels will play an important part in sustainable fuel and energy production solutions for the future. But the professors say the nation's appetite for fuel cannot be satisfied ... more 
Georgetown SC (SPX) Oct 13, 2009The future of algae energy has come. Renewed World Energies unveiled an operational prototype of its photo-bioreactor at the Algae Biomass Summit in San Diego, CA on October 8, 2009. The energy company has achieved the technology breakthrough that will forever transform the dream of algae energy into a reality; making algae green the new black gold. Renewed World Energies has cracked the ... more 
Rolla MO (SPX) Oct 13, 2009Dr. Nam, Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Missouri University of Science and Technology is partnering with a coal plant in Chamois, Mo to produce algae in large pools near the plant's coal stacks. The algae feeds off the CO2 emissions from the coal plant and multiplies more quickly. He and engineers from the school are using a strain of Missouri native algae because it sinks to the bottom ... more |
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