|
 
Nestle eyes resuming ties in Indonesia palm oil controversyKuala Lumpur (AFP) May 17, 2010 Food giant Nestle will resume buying palm oil from Indonesian giant Sinar Mas if an independent audit clears the Jakarta-based firm of claims it is devastating rainforest, a Nestle official said Monday. The world's largest food company dropped Sinar Mas - Indonesia's biggest palm oil firm - as a supplier in March following protests by environmental group Greenpeace, after Anglo-Dutch company Unilever also severed ties this year. Jose Lopez, Nestle S.A's executive vice president, said the Swiss ... read more |
. |
 |
|
Free Space, Earth, Energy And Military Newsletters - Delivered Daily |
| . | . |
| .. |
 
Madison WI (SPX) Apr 06, 2010Crop residues, perennial warm season grasses, and short-rotation woody crops are potential biomass sources for cellulosic ethanol production. While most research is focused on the conversion of cellulosic feeedstocks into ethanol and increasing production of biomass, the impacts of growing energy crops and the removal of crop residue on soil and environmental quality have received less attention ... more 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 01, 2010Using genetic sleight of hand, researcher Xinyao Liu and professor Roy Curtiss at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have coaxed photosynthetic microbes to secrete oil-bypassing energy and cost barriers that have hampered green biofuel production. Their results appear in this week's advanced online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS. The challe ... more 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2010A Queen's University chemistry professor has invented a special solvent that may make cooking oil production more environmentally friendly. Philip Jessop, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, has created a solvent that - when combined with carbon dioxide - extracts oil from soybeans. Industries currently make cooking oils using hexane, a cheap, flammable solvent that is a neurotoxin a ... more |
.. |
 Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Has Highest Emissions Savings  More Economical Process For Making Ethanol From Nonfood Sources   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
.. |
|
|
Free Space, Earth, Energy And Military Newsletters - Delivered Daily |
|
. |
2,487.5 MPG Achieved At 2010 Shell Eco-Marathon AmericasHouston TX (SPX) Mar 30, 2010 Extreme mileage was the goal this weekend on the streets of downtown Houston as 42 student teams competed in the 2010 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a challenge for students to design, build and test fuel-efficient vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of energy. More than 400 students were on hand to stretch the boundaries of fuel efficiency and participate in the first-ever street course challenge for the Americas event. So who came out on top? For the second year ... read more |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
| Previous Issues | May 18 | May 17 | May 14 | May 13 | May 12 |
