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• Loch Striven ship layups: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Update 08.00 3rd December: An issue which looks as if it may be on the horizon is the UK Government selling off more of the remaining Trust Ports. The national debt already at unprecedented - unimagined - levels. The shadow of a potential Dubai collapse (the  now state-owned RBS was, of course, a major lender) [...]
  5 hours ago

• Fishing: the figures we’re not given

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  3,500 tonnes - that is the minimum estimate of fish thrown back into the Clyde as ‘by-catch’ and ‘discards’. (But there’s more.)Most of this 3,500 tonnes of fish are already dead or will die as a result of the stress encountered by being caught and subjected to the nets and the handling process. According to ...
  1 day ago

• Algae Systems advances with NASA-developed technology for off-shore algae production

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 561
  In Texas, Algae Systems, a company started by NASA engineers and biofuel industry veterans, has accepted NASA’s challenge to prove, commercialize and bring to market a renewable carbon-negative fuel from algae that feeds on sunlight, sewage and CO2. The NASA-developed technology, called OMEGA (Offshore Membrane ...
  1 week ago

• GreenBiz: The algae farmer

  
  Richmond BizSense — Authority: 542
  With an alternative and renewable energy industry poised to take off in Virginia, there are plenty of start-ups and entrepreneurs looking to cash in. In a new feature for BizSense, we will take a look at those Virginians who are putting a stake into the emerging green energy sector.
  2 weeks ago

• Achtung, pescatarians!

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 574
  SFist alerts you to the risk of “sport-caught shellfish” from Santa Cruz county carrying a neurotoxin called domoic acid, which causes amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP). Of course, the key is that most shellfish people buy in stores or eat in restaurant is commercially caught, and thus “subject to frequent and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Engineered organisms. Direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide.

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  Joule Biotechnologies Inc has reported that it has achieved “… direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy.”More from a Release dated November 9, sourced from Joule Biotechnologies Inc:Joule Reports Breakthrough in Renewable Diesel ...
  3 weeks ago

• LiveFuels: Using Fish to Harvest Oil From Algae

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 137
  2139032694_cd900c3686.jpg Menlo Park, Calif. based LiveFuels , which received $10 million in funding two years ago and has been in business since 2006, is headed by the husband-wife team of David Jones and Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones.
  3 weeks ago

• Algal Biomass Organization’s Executive Director Testifies Before Congress on Benefits of Algae-Based Fuels

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 137
  Algae4.jpg Mary Rosenthal knows the benefits of algae-based fuels and she’s not afraid to let her voice be heard.
  3 weeks ago

• PetroAlgae to Partner with IndianOil Company on Algae-Based Fuels

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 582
  Florida-based PetroAlgae Inc. (PA) ( earlier post ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into an agreement to license its proprietary micro-crop technology to IndianOil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for the future commercial-scale production of biodiesel from algae. ICOL is the 18 th largest ...
  4 weeks ago

• Robot Fish to Better Monitor Water Quality

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 625
  An ecologist and an engineer at Michigan State University are working together to create robot fish that can better monitor various factors in aquatic environments. Combining the brilliance of nature with some top-notch engineering, these two scientists are on to something and getting the funding for it. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Are Minute Maid “Brain Juice” Commercials Misleading? [Inside the Label]

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 514
  Minute Maid, a subsidiary of the Coca Cola Company best known for its lines of fruit juices, has been reprimanded, albeit lightly, by the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB). NAD found that commercials for it’s “ Enhanced Pomegranate Blueberry Flavored 100% Juice ...
  4 weeks ago

• Warmer Seas Blocking Nature’s Carbon Pump

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 552
  Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton. Climate change isn’t just warming the atmosphere, it’s also warming the ocean’s surface and deeper levels of the water column. This is known as the pelagic ocean (the “pelagic zone” is any part of the water column other than that at the sea floor) ...
  4 weeks ago

• East coast regains allure but red tide threat lingers

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  With minimal traces of red tide in the waters around the east coast, after having plagued Fujairah for months earlier this year, bathers and divers are enjoying the open seas once more. But for how long? Red tides, or harmful algal blooms, occur Read the original:  East coast regains allure but red tide threat ...
  4 weeks ago

• Agriculture 3.0

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 123
  Depleted versus rich topsoil There have been a series of interesting articles recently regarding the future of agriculture, and it’s not what you’d think.  In fact some future trends seem rather ancient. First let’s start with the key problem.  Today’s methods, let’s call them 2.0, aren’t ...
  4 weeks ago

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