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Company turning cow fat into motor oilOviedo, Fla. (UPI) Jan 20, 2009 A Connecticut company that turns cow fat into motor oil says it's greasing engines from Florida to California, including cars in the American Le Mans. The city of Oviedo, Fla., has become the latest customer of Green Earth Technologies of Stamford, Conn., The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Wednesday. The company's G-OIL has no odor, is similar in cost to regular motor oil and performs as well as its petroleum-based competitor, said Jeff Loch, who founded Green Earth in 2007. ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2010The United States needs to fundamentally rethink its policy of promoting ethanol to diversify its energy sources and increase energy security, according to a new policy paper by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The paper, "Fundamentals of a Sustainable U.S. Biofuels Policy," questions the economic, environmental and logistical basis for the billions of dollars in federa ... more 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jan 08, 2010Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have identified a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step in using the plants for biofuel. Their paper was published online in Plant Biotechnology Journal. According to Vyacheslav Andrianov, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cancer Biology at Jefferson Medical College o ... more 
Bogota, Colombia (UPI) Jan 4, 2009 Ampal-American Israel Corp. has signed an agreement making way for the company to acquire a 25-percent stake in an ethanol project in Colombia. Once completed it will be the largest Israeli energy project undertaken in Latin America, company officials said. The company said the deal, signed on Dec. 31, 2009, was an option exercise agreement with Merhav MNF Ltd., pursuant to which ... more |
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Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 21, 2009Cetrel and Novozymes have announced a research partnership to turn sugarcane waste into green energy. Using Cetrel's know-how in waste-stream treatment and Novozymes' biotech expertise, the partners aim to enable sugar and ethanol production plants in Brazil to turn bagasse, the waste from sugarcane production, into biogas using enzymes. The biogas can be used to produce electricity for ... more 
Grand Forks ND (SPX) Dec 21, 2009The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology developed at the EERC at the University of North Dakota. Whole Energy is receiving global, exclusive licensing rights to EERC Foundation's technology, which converts biomass and ... more 
Rosemont IL (SPX) Dec 21, 2009Methane digesters on dairy farms could soon be a common source of energy for residents and businesses in the state of New York. That is one result of the Dairy Power Summit which brought together more than 200 New York dairy farmers and industry stakeholders from across the country to discuss the potential for dairy-supplied renewable energy. Summit attendees set a 2020 goal that 40 ... more |
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