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Developing Renewable Fuels From Algae OilHouston TX (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 Endicott Biofuels and TransAlgae have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of algae as a potential transportation fuel and renewable chemical feedstock source. According to Endicott Chief Executive Officer David Robinson, TransAlgae's strategy is consistent with Endicott's goal to create economically sustainable new sources of energy through the development of renewable ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2009Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change. Utilizing the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ... more 
Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2009The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1 million grant to UC Riverside's College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert biosolids to clean synthetic diesel fuel. The PDU will be located at CE-CERT's facilities on Columbia Ave. in Riverside and will use a steam hydrogasification process ... more 
Madison WI (SPX) Nov 27, 2009A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass could be harvested for use as a biofuel feedstock. Economically viable production of a perennial grass monoculture from which substantial quantities of biomass are ... more |
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 Biofuel scores a first in green aviation  KLM flies world's first "passenger flight on biofuel"  Scientists complete corn genome |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 19, 2009Purdue University will operate a new federally funded facility to test aircraft engines and develop alternative fuels in work that also aims to reduce the nation's reliance on imported oil. The National Test Facility for Fuels and Propulsion is funded with a $1.35 million grant from the U.S. Air Force and will be housed in the Niswonger Aviation Technology Building at the Purdue Airport. ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 19, 2009The truth about accelerating improvements in the way America produces both ethanol and the feedstocks from which it is made proved to be inconvenient for the narrative of former Vice President Al Gore in his description of grain-based ethanol in his new book. Writing in Our Choice, Vice President Gore expresses his "disappointment" over the progress of ethanol in the past 30 years. Yet, the fact ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2009As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products. The NASA bioreactor is an Offshore Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA), which won't compete with agriculture for land, fertilizer, or freshwater. NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., licensed the patent-p ... more |
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 UCI Computer Model Foresees Effects Of Alternative Transportation Fuels  Joule Reports Breakthrough In Renewable Diesel Production  DuPont And BSES Partner To Improve Sugarcane |
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