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Experts Agree: To protect the environment, biofuel standards are needed
Friday, October 10, 2008
MILLBROOK, NY - The United States lacks the policies needed to ensure that cellulosic biofuel production will not cause environmental harm, says a distinguished group of international scientists.
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Experts Agree: To protect the...
Experts Agree: To protect the environment, biofuel standards are needed
Friday, October 10, 2008
MILLBROOK, NY - The United States lacks the policies needed to ensure that cellulosic biofuel production will not cause environmental harm, says a distinguished group of international scientists.
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CSU closer to large-scale algae biofuel...
CSU closer to large-scale algae biofuel production
Friday, October 10, 2008
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Running your car on fuel made from algae is getting closer to reality thanks to research being done in Fort Collins.
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$2bn fund for secondary agriculture suggested
$2bn fund for secondary agriculture suggested
Friday, October 10, 2008
NEW DELHI, India - A panel formed by the government in 2006 has proposed the creation of a $2 billion fund to boost so-called secondary agriculture, including the extraction of oil from rice bran, milk from soya bean and industrial chemicals and biofuel from sugar cane, an official said.
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Brazil leads the way for biofuels sector
Brazil leads the way for biofuels sector
Friday, October 10, 2008
The European biofuel industry pales into significance against the scale of operation in the likes of Brazil and the USA, as Nuffield scholar Cathal McCarron found on his recent tour to the countries
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In bloom: growing algae for biofuel
In bloom: growing algae for biofuel
Friday, October 10, 2008
ROOSENDAALM, The Netherlands - "It's exciting because it's achievable," says Peter van den Dorpel, as he looks over the big plastic tubes full of various shades of green algae.
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Roxas Holdings eyes P5-B debt
Roxas Holdings eyes P5-B debt
Friday, October 10, 2008
MANILA, Philippines - Roxas Holdings Inc. plans to take out P5 billion in loans for a bioethanol venture and has received commitments from a number of banks, including Banco de Oro Unibank, Bank of the Philippine Islands and Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., company chairman Pedro Roxas said.
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Europe rallies behind nanotechnology to...
Europe rallies behind nanotechnology to wean world from fossil fuels
Friday, October 10, 2008
Nanotechnologies can be used to develop sustainable energy systems while reducing the harmful effects of fossil fuels as they are gradually phased out over the next century.
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Monterey-Salinas Transit to run buses on...
Monterey-Salinas Transit to run buses on local mustard-seed oil
Friday, October 10, 2008
B20 biodiesel mix will power entire 80-bus fleet
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Oct 09
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University of Reading plays key role in...
University of Reading plays key role in major breakthrough for global oil palm industry
Thursday, October 09, 2008
The University of Reading, working with Sumatra Bioscience, BioHybrids International Limited, and the University of Aberystwyth, has made a major breakthrough in oil palm yield.
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Oct 09
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Fungus fights air pollution by removing...
Fungus fights air pollution by removing sulfur from crude oil
Thursday, October 09, 2008
TEHERAN, Iran - Researchers in Iran are publishing what they describe as the first study on a fungus that can remove sulfur - a major source of air pollution - from crude oil more effectively than conventional refining methods.
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Brazil to have 7 mln more hectares of...
Brazil to have 7 mln more hectares of land for sugarcane production
Thursday, October 09, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc announced an expansion project on Wednesday to have 7 million more hectares of land for planting sugarcane.
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Novozymes wins $12.3M ethanol contract...
Novozymes wins $12.3M ethanol contract from feds
Thursday, October 09, 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy has given a $12.3 million contract to Novozymes in an effort to cut the cost of making ethanol from materials such as wood and the inedible parts of plants.
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Zimbabwe: Turn human waste into energy
Zimbabwe: Turn human waste into energy
Thursday, October 09, 2008
NEW YORK, USA - To many people, the term "biogas" is something they come across sometime in their secondary school education and is quickly forgotten once examinations are over.
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Idemitsu to study ways to make...
Idemitsu to study ways to make bioplastics from nonfood crops
Thursday, October 09, 2008
TOKYO, Japan - Idemitsu Kosan Co. is accelerating its research into the production of bioplastics from nonfood plants.
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I-65 becomes U.S's first biofuels corridor
I-65 becomes U.S's first biofuels corridor
Thursday, October 09, 2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely and officials from Alabama, Kentucky and Indiana and the U.S. Department of Energy announced on Wednesday that Interstate 65 is America's first biofuels corridor.
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Biofuels are here to stay: What to do...
Biofuels are here to stay: What to do about food supply?
Thursday, October 09, 2008
In a wide-ranging session on Tuesday dealing with global biofuel, food security and poverty issues, there was plenty for the presenters to disagree about - but the one thing they could all concur on was that the biofuel genie is out of the bottle and he’s here to stay.
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Top BioEnergy Articles
Algae oil promises truly green fuel
This is one biofuel that lives up to its green billing in more ways than one. It's an emerald-green crude oil, produced by photosynthesis in algae, which could fuel cars, trucks and aircraft - without consuming crops that can be used as food.
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Algae oil promises truly green fuel
Algae oil promises truly green fuel
This is one biofuel that lives up to its green billing in more ways than one. It's an emerald-green crude oil, produced by photosynthesis in algae, which could fuel cars, trucks and aircraft - without consuming crops that can be used as food.
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Biofuels, Biopolymers key topics of...
Biofuels, Biopolymers key topics of National Biotech Conference
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The nation’s agricultural biotechnology experts will convene in Ohio June 3 to 5 to discuss the role this industry will play in the future of renewable fuels, energy and industrial products.
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Sweet sorghum: a new smart biofuel crop...
Sweet sorghum: a new smart biofuel crop that ensures food security
PATANCHERU, India - In these days of soaring food prices worldwide , imagine a crop that provides food, livestock feed and biofuel. It grows in dry conditions, tolerates heat, salt and waterlogging, and provides steady income for poor farmers.
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Alabama plant to begin producing ethanol...
Alabama plant to begin producing ethanol from waste wood
LIVINGSTON, Alab. - In a cavernous, abandoned lumber mill in the Black Belt, a small team of engineers and technicians is assembling a demonstration plant that, as early as this month, will start turning wood scraps into ethanol.
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Algae to Biodiesel: Aurora Biofuels...
Algae to Biodiesel: Aurora Biofuels Raises $20M
Aurora Biofuels, an algae-to-biodiesel startup, said Tuesday that it’s raised a second round of funding of $20 million; Oak Investment Partners, Gabriel Venture Partners and Noventi were included in the round.
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Pure Biofuels establishes jatropha...
Pure Biofuels establishes jatropha nursery to support its feedstock needs
LOS ANGELES & LIMA, Peru - Pure Biofuels Corp., a Peruvian-based biodiesel corporation, announced that it has established a Jatropha nursery which will produce an initial 360,000 plants in approximately two months, scaling up to one million plants per month.
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DR Congo debates its enormous biofuels...
DR Congo debates its enormous biofuels potential
The Democratic Republic of Congo is debating the pros and cons of its enormous untapped agricultural potential, in particular for the production of biofuels.
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AE Biofuels announces plans to construct...
AE Biofuels announces plans to construct a 75 million gallon Argentina biodiesel plant with DS Group
AE Biofuels, Inc., yesterday announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with DS Development, a subsidiary of DS Group, to build, own and operate a 75 million gallon per year production biodiesel plant near Rosario, Argentina.
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Refinery will convert vegetable oil to...
Refinery will convert vegetable oil to burn in diesel engines
The Port of Sacramento's governing board on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal from Long Beach startup Primafuel Inc. to build a biodiesel plant that would make 60 million gallons a year of the alternative fuel.
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Oily seed is next biofuel
Oily seed is next biofuel
KUNIA, Hawaii - If all goes well this summer, an Air New Zealand 747 jumbo jet will take off from Auckland this fall powered by fuel refined from the seed of a fast-growing weed.
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New biofuel crops set off new alarms
New biofuel crops set off new alarms
In the past year, as the diversion of such food crops as corn and palm oil to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so-called second-generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy. These, made from non-food crops such as reeds and wild grasses, would offer fuel without the risk of taking food off the table, they said.
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Switchgrass varieties currently on trial...
Switchgrass varieties currently on trial at four locations in California
COALINGA, Calif. - Rancher Anthony Amaro has been a frequent visitor to the University of California’s Westside Research and Extension Center at Five Points, Calif. over the past year.
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New law aimed at boosting biofuel production
New law aimed at boosting biofuel production
HONOLULU, Hawaii – Gov. Linda Lingle signed into law today a bill that will make it easier for biofuel producers to directly lease public lands. The measure is part of the Lingle-Aiona Administration's efforts to increase Hawai'i's energy independence by encouraging the use of alternative renewable energy sources such as biofuels.
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Patent policy and sustainable cellulosic...
Patent policy and sustainable cellulosic biofuels development
National patents and international rules on patents will be instrumental in the development of biofuels markets—defining how fast that development takes place and who controls and benefits from the next wave of biofuels.
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Energy crops take a roasting
Energy crops take a roasting
A process used to roast coffee beans could give Britain's biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some of the UK’s leading energy crops by up to 20 per cent.
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New farm bill boosts critical clean...
New farm bill boosts critical clean energy investments
CHICAGO, IL - Yesterday Congress overrode the President's veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, also known as the Farm Bill. The new legislation includes a significant clean energy development component -- improved and new programs for wind power, advanced biofuels, energy efficiency, solar power and new energy crops for cleaner energy from America's farmers, ranchers and...
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