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India's 'miracle' biofuel crop: too good to be true?New Delhi (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India's growing energy needs, but some experts are starting to question whether the wonder-shrub is too good to be true. The seeds of the wild plant, which grows abundantly across India, produce non-edible oil that can be blended with diesel, to make the biofuel that is part of government efforts to cut carbon emissions and combat climate change. That, combined with the shrub's much vaunted ability to flourish on poorly irrigated ... read more |
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Brazil's ethanol-fueled plant on streamRio De Janeiro (UPI) Jan 21, 2009 Brazil has inaugurated its first commercial ethanol-fueled power plant amid questions being asked about the global impact of increased feedstock production on food agriculture. The ethanol used in the plant comes from sugarcane, but other biofuels being researched for ecologically friendly attributes or all-weather use are using huge quantities of soy, sunflower and other oil seeds. Although most of the crops used in feedstock for fuels are grown specifically for the purpose, analysts s ... read more |
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Seattle (UPI) Jan 21, 2009 Seattle, which gets a small amount of electricity from its own trash, plans to increase its garbage power significantly, city officials say. The city of 602,000 plans to outfit a second landfill to pump methane gas from refuse by 2012, adding to an existing landfill in Arlington, Ore., where Seattle's garbage is taken by train, officials said. The city first began getting electri ... more 
Oviedo, 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. ... more 
Jodhpur, India (AFP) Jan 18, 2010A London-based environmentalist driving a biofuel-powered bus around the world was freed on bail by a judge in India on Monday after being arrested for illegally using a satellite telephone. Andy Pag's lawyer Prateek Kasliwal said the court in the western Indian city of Ajmer released him on condition he put up a personal guarantee of 40,000 rupees (900 dollars). "Justice P.K. Aggarwal r ... more |
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Biofuel Crop Miscanthus Can Host Western Corn RootwormChampaign IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 The western corn rootworm beetle, a pest that feasts on corn roots and corn silk and costs growers more than $1 billion annually in the U.S., also can survive on the perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus, a potential biofuels crop that would likely be grown alongside corn, researchers report. Rootworm beetle larvae can survive to adulthood on Miscanthus rhizomes, and adult beetles will lay their eggs at the base of Miscanthus plants grown near cornfields, the researchers found. Their st ... read more |
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