Archive for the ‘Biorefinery’ Category
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 ...
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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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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
More than 10% of all gasoline sold in the United States in 2009 will be made from ethanol rather than petroleum. Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told gasoline refiners and importers that they must produce more than 10% of all gasoline from ethanol in 2009. This exceeds the ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
DARPA is funding research devoted to the affordable production of a surrogate for petroleum based military jet fuel (JP-8) from agricultural or aquacultural crops that are non-competitive with food material.
The current solicitation expands the scope of the BioFuels program described in BAA06-43 to additionally focus on: (1) processes for ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Gulf Oil recently opened its first e85 fueling station in New England to service commuters with Flex Fuel Vehicles. This station is an important milestone to expand Massachusetts and New England’s fuel resources, providing greater access to affordable and environmentally friendly alternative fuels.
This new station makes it easier for Massachusetts’ ...
Posted in Batteries, Biofuels, Biorefinery, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Green-Cars, Hydrogen, Industry-News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Sustainability, biomass, ethanol, green-technology | No Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Biofuels may not be as bad as many of its critics believed.
Speculators were the principal cause for the rise in corn prices during the summer months, according to a new report by Global Insight, a Boston, Mass.-based consulting firm. In other words, biofuels are not to blame.
"The record high prices ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Posted in Biofuels, Biorefinery, Carbon, Geoengineering, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Start-ups, Sustainability, biomass, ethanol, green-technology | No Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
A wave of solar-energy companies are scrambling to adjust to the lingering credit crisis in capital markets. While investors and analysts are still bullish on the sector’s long term prospects, the next year or two could see a major shake up in the crowded solar energy space.
The looming threat of ...
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