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• in Technology
  The Future in the Skies
  How Airbus is Crafting an Environmentally-Friendly Fleet
  by msilver / on Jun 17, 2011
• in Green
  Making Gasoline From Plants
  Algae and sunflower
  by yihyeewong / on Sep 20, 2010
• in Green
  EPA Report Indicates Increasing Man-Made Dead Zones In Our Waterways
  This new report from environmental and agency scientists shows an alarming rate of increase of "dead zones" in our waterways, caused largely by our overuse of fertilizers.
  by terrasanoblog / on Sep 3, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “biofuels”

 

• Save 31% on BioAmber’s IPO

  
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  Jim Lane Will BioAmber complete its IPO? As the industry waits, fingers crossed, the biosuccinic developersweetens the pot with warrants, lower share prices. In Canada, BioAmber has reduced the proposed price range for its IPOto $10-$12 per share, down from a $15-$17 range — as it seeks tokeep the initial public ...
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• DOEs Joint Bio Energy Institute and NERSC Advance Cellulosic Biofuel Production

  
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  Advanced biofuels – liquid fuels synthesized from the sugars in cellulosic biomass – offer a clean, green and renewable alternative to gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Bringing the costs of producing these advanced biofuels down to competitive levels with petrofuels, however, is a major challenge. Researchers at ...
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• KiOR shipping cellulosic biofuels; releases Q1 results

  
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  In Texas, KiOR announced a Q1 2013 net loss of $31.3 million, or $0.30 per share, compared to a Q1 2012 loss of $16.8 million. The company reported revenues of $71,000. “Building on the first gallons of cellulosic diesel we shipped in March, we continue to make progress with operations at our Columbus facility,” ...
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• Biofuels Digest Index rises to 72.92 as advanced biofuels gain

  
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  The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rose 0.30 percent to 72.92 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) rocketed up 10.10 percent to $9.70, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 10.32 percent to $4.43 — both after earnings announces. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) ...
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• Improved Ionic Liquid Pretreatments of Lignocellulose

  
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  Ionic liquid pretreatments show great potential as a biomass pretreatment for dissolving lignocellulose and helping to hydrolyze the resulting aqueous solution into fuel sugars.  But the best of these ionic liquids so far have required the use of expensive enzymes. Blake Simmons, a chemical engineer who heads the ...
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• New Process Simplifies Biofuel Production

  
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  Biofuels  Researchers have developed an enzyme-free ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic biomass that makes it easier to recover fermentable sugars for biofuels and to recycle the ionic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• AEC Calls for End to Advanced Biofuel Delays

  
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  The Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC) has sent a letter to the White House expressing concern about ongoing delays in the approval process for advanced biofuel pathways pursuant to the implementation of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The letter calls for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...
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• Future of DoD’s Biofuels Program Should Not Be Sacrificed to Tight Budgets

  
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  Biofuels Leader The military has been a leader in the development of biofuels – for good reason. As I’ve written before , the military’s single-source dependence on petroleum for fuel is a strategic vulnerability. Oil has a monopoly on energy supply for 80% of our military’s energy needs, including ...
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• Webinars Focus on Legal Issues For Ethanol Producers

  
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  The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) along with Michael Best & Friedrich LLP (Michael Best) are hosting a webinar series focused on pressing legal issues facing ethanol producers. The first webinar focused on compliance issues with federal Health Care Reform in 2013. The 30 minute webinar, says ACE ...
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• Wisconsin Opens 8 New E15 Pumps

  
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  Wisconsin is the home of eight new E15 pumps. The 15 percent ethanol 85 percent gasoline blend is now offered at SmartStation, 1290 Business Highway 151, Platteville, Wisconsin. The station is a wholly owned subsidiary of Badger State Ethanol . “We are honored to be Wisconsin’s first retailer to offer E15 to ...
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• Advanced Biofuels Corp. to re-fit Washington ethanol plant to 2nd gen

  
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  In Washington state, Advanced Biofuels Corp. has bought a 7 million gallon per year first generation ethanol plant and plans to re-fit it into an advanced biofuel facility using Bio-Process Innovation Inc technology. The refitted plant will produce 6 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol plant from wheat straw ...
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• Hungry for change as Cameron shapes up to tackle the food crisis of the poor

  
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  This summer Britain has its best chance in years of leading a drive to reduce world hunger, which has been increasing even as the proportion of people living in absolute poverty has fallen. Last week, as I reported in my Daily Telegraph column this weekend, thousands of Britons had a brief taste of what is [...]
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• Farmers Encouraged to Ask for Higher Biofuels Blends

  
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  While we talk a lot about using more biodiesel and ethanol, there’s no more fitting place to use the green fuels than the farms where it all starts. A Minnesota farmer took his own advice to use more biofuels to heart, and this article from the Rochester (MN) Post Bulletin explains most farmers should use higher ...
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• New Yeast Strain Could Cut Cellulosic Ethanol Costs

  
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  Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture have developed a new strain of yeast that could cut the costs of cellulosic ethanol production. This Agricultural Research Service (ARS) news release says the work is being done at the agency’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Ill. ...
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• EPA May Restore High Compression Engines

  
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  Back in March the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced a plan to cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline. In the “small print” was an audacious reversal of policy that seeks to solve the three leading ethanol challenges in one move with higher compression.   The idea is deep in the 938-page text ...
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• Africa: economy

  
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  African Arguments African Development Bank African economic outlook Africa development indicators 2008-2009 Kenya SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa (CSM) Africa Monitor , a weekly look at business, investment, and development trends. World Economic Forum on Africa 2011 2010 Annual ...
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• Air Force Biofuel Program Gets A Lift From Coke

  
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  Now here’s an odd pairing for you: none other than the Coca-Cola company is a strategic partner behind a Wisconsin biofuel company called Virent, which has just announced that the Air Force will be testing one of the first batches of jet biofuel from its newly operative demonstration facility in Madison. This ...
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• Former Biofuels CEO Leaves it Behind for Natural Gas

  
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  Situation: While ethanol is now standard in vehicle fuel as 10% of gasoline, advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol have been struggling. It hasn’t been fun for the biofuel industry to see one of its leaders leave the alternative fuel for another one entirely , while making blunt criticisms.Alan Shaw, chemist ...
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  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501131940.htm New Plant Protein Discoveries Could Ease Global Food and Fuel Demands New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control ...
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• Gevo-lutionary

  
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  Jim Lane Has Gevo whipped its problems, and whipped them good? When a problem comes along, you must whip it Before the cream sets out too long, you must whip it When something’s goin’ wrong, you must whip it Now whip it into shape Shape it up, get straight Go forward, move ahead Try to ...
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