Archive for the ‘Biofuels’ Category
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
While global venture-capital investments in clean tech doubled in 2008, according to a report released yesterday by GreenTech Media, a decline in investments during the last quarter of the year could signal a slower 2009. The $7.7 billion invested in clean tech in 2008 was up from the $3.4 billion ...
Posted in Biofuels, Climate-Change, Eco-Efficiency, Energy-Storage, Finance, Solar-Energy, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, green-building, green-technology | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
How accurate are energy demand and supply forecasts produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration every year in the form of the so-called Annual Energy Outlook? A new analysis by Resources For the Future, an influential energy research organization in Washington D.C., finds that the EIA's track record is mixed. ...
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Finance, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Venture Capital, biomass, ethanol | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Air New Zealand has joined a number of other commercial airlines in testing alternative fuels. The airline conducted a two-hour test flight using fuel made from jatropha plants blended 50:50 with conventional Jet A1 fuel in the tank of one of four Rolls-Royce engines on a 747-400 airplane. ...
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Biofuels, Carbon, Green-Chemistry, India, Industry-News, Renewable Fuels, Sustainability | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Wired magazine today announced its picks for the Top 10 Green Tech Breakthroughs of 2008. Interestingly, the magazine awarded the top spot on its list to the Calera Corporation for its development of a new cement that is produced by catalysis instead of heat, and that thereby absorbs carbon dioxide ...
Posted in Batteries, Biofuels, Carbon, Eco-Efficiency, Energy-Storage, Finance, Hydrogen, Solar-Energy, Wind-Power, green-building, green-technology | No Comments »
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Have you heard of "Green Liquids"? I'm not talking about traditional biofuels or liquid fuels generated from biomass, but a new mysterious category of fuel added to the list of renewable-energy fuels used in the transportation sector in the Energy Information Administration's 2009 Annual Energy Outlook.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Next year, ethanol will account for more than 10% of all gasoline sold in the United States, breaking the so-called E-10 "blend wall" for the first time and potentially wreaking havoc on the millions of gasoline powered engines across the country.
And that's the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic scenario is that ...
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Biorefinery, Green-Cars, Industry-News, biomass, ethanol, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Yesterday, Kinder Morgan reported moving commercial batches of ethanol on its 16-inch-diameter Central Florida Pipeline between Tampa and Orlando, marking the first US trans-market shipment of ethanol on a gasoline pipeline. In addition, Kinder Morgan announced that it had successfully tested the shipping of blended B-5 biodiesel on the Plantation ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
During the four-week period, an average 63.255 million barrels of gasoline was purchased in the week at retail outlets, a 3% fall from 2007, but an increase from the previous week's 62.720 million barrels, according to MasterCard Advisors data.
The question is how far will prices reverse downward usage trends. The ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Engineers at Virginia Tech, Paul Gatenholm and Rafael Davalos, have developed a new technology for controlling the motion of bacteria that produce cellulose.
The use of bacterial cellulose for biomaterials has been limited because its mechanical properties cannot be controlled beyond thin, flexible layers. The invention will allow precise control ...
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