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Fueling the Modern World with… Air?
Life within me —
Authority: 137
Of all the wacky things that fuel can be made from nowadays – ranging from dirty diapers to confiscated booze – somehow, this one takes the cake. Soon, we may be able to power our vehicles and heat our homes with nothing but air. A biofuel firm called Joule Biotechnologies has discovered a way to produce fuel from ...9 hours ago -
Engineered organisms. Direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide.
Biotech —
Authority: 131
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 ...1 day ago -
Accenture Reports Identifies 12 Disruptive Technologies Most Likely to Transform Supply and Demand of Transport Fuels and Cut Emissions Within Next 10 Years
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
Accenture timeline for evolution of electrification technologies, the “game-changing” subset of the disruptive technologies. Source: Accenture. Click to enlarge. Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and ...2 days ago -
Bangladesh takes marine border dispute with India to UN
Thaindian News —
Authority: 708
Dhaka, Nov 10 (IANS) Bangladesh has registered its objection with the UN to India’s claim over certain areas in the Bay of Bengal, three months after a similar missive was filed against Myanmar’s claim.The three nations have not clearly demarcated their maritime boundaries and are moving the Commission on the ...2 days ago -
Joule Achieves Direct Microbial Conversion of CO2 into Hydrocarbons
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. ( Earlier post .) The breakthrough was made possible by the discovery of unique genes coding ...3 days ago -
Mineral export can fetch Tk 12,000cr: experts
Bangladesh Economic News —
Authority: 443
http://www.newagebd.com/2009/nov/09/busi.html#8 Mineral export can fetch Tk 12,000cr: experts Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh has deposits of at least 1.74 million tonnes of minerals worth over Tk 12,000 crore in the beach sand of vast areas stretching from Najirtek of Cox’s Bazar Sadar ...3 days ago -
The Origins Of Brent Crude Oil
AQUACHANNEL —
Authority: 140
North Sea Brent Crude was originially discovered in the early part of the 1960’s and is refined and consumed by; the UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Brent Crude Oil is the biggest of all classifications of North Sea oil which there are; Brent Crude, Brent Light Sweet Crude, Oseberg, Ecofisk and ...4 days ago -
Experts project new deposit of coal, suggests exploration
Bangladesh Economic News —
Authority: 443
http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=8&id=69137&date=2009-11-06 Experts project new deposit of coal, suggests exploration CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, Nov 6 (BSS)- Experts has primarily rojected a possible deposit of coal in the hilly areas of Patiya and Chandanish suggesting immediate exploration of the ...5 days ago -
Separate contract okayed for oil exploration in Nagaland
Thaindian News —
Authority: 708
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA) Thursday decided to split the production sharing contract for a block in north-eastern India to facilitate more exploration in the area that falls in Nagaland.Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters after the CCEA meet that the decision was ...1 week ago -
Energy famine is turning into a glut
Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog —
Authority: 672
My colleague, Roland Gribben, tells me that back in the 1960s, the then chief economist at BP forecast that the world’s oil wells would be largely dry by the mid-1990s. Even with burgeoning demand from the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America, I’ve always been suspicious of the “peak oil” brigade, ...1 week ago -
Environmental impact study before launch of coal-mining
Bangladesh Economic News —
Authority: 443
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/11/05/83427.html Environmental impact study before launch of coal-mining M Azizur Rahman The government will carry out a study to assess social and environmental impacts of coalmining before the launch of long-awaited mining in the northern region of the country for ...1 week ago -
Honeywells UOP and China National Petroleum Corp. to Collaborate on Biofuels Projects in China, Including Renewable Diesel and Renewable Jet
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
UOP’s Ecofining process produces drop-in hydrocarbon fuel replacements from natural oils. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with China National Petroleum Corp.(CNPC) under which the two companies will collaborate on a range of biofuels ...1 week ago -
PetroAlgae to Partner with IndianOil Company on Algae-Based Fuels
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
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 ...1 week ago -
No CBI request for probing charges against oil regulator
Thaindian News —
Authority: 708
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has not sought the petroleum ministry’s permission to investigate allegations of corruption against oil regulator V.K. Sibal, according to Petroleum Secretary R.S. Pandey.“So far, a formal request from the CBI for granting permission has not come to ...1 week ago -
Researchers Discover That Fullerenes Support Hydrogenation Without Noble Metal Catalysts Under Mild Conditions
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
Fullerenes can drive hydrogenation under mild conditions. Credit: ACS, Li and Xu. Click to enlarge. Researchers at Nanjing University in China have shown that fullerenes (cage-like, all-carbon nanostructures) can function effectively as novel non-metal hydrogenation catalysts. Catalytic hydrogenation—used to ...1 week ago -
New co to be set up to increase coal-based power generation
Bangladesh Economic News —
Authority: 443
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/11/01/83116.html New co to be set up to increase coal-based power generation M Azizur Rahman The government will form a new company styled ‘Bangladesh Coal Power Company’ to set up the planned coal-fired power plants and increase the country’s electricity ...1 week ago -
Consortium Win $2.2M ARPA-E Award for Direct Solar Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuel Research; Biocatalytic Coatings Using Bacteria Embedded in Latex
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
A consortium comprising researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with BioCee , a University of Minnesota start-up company as the commercialization partner, has been awarded $2.2 million from the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program for a research proposal to use ...1 week ago -
ONGC to invest $174 mn in Myanmar
Thaindian News —
Authority: 708
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has been allowed to make an investment of up to $173.85 million in a hydrocarbon assets in Myanmar.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.The investment ...2 weeks ago -
Dynamotive Upgrades BioOil from Multiple Biomass Sources to a Uniform Hydrocarbon Product
Green Car Congress —
Authority: 583
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation has successfully applied the BINGO (Biomass INto GasOil) BioOil upgrading process to BioOils produced from a variety of feedstocks. ( Earlier post .) The feedstocks from which the BioOils were produced included sugarcane bagasse, bark rich forest trimmings, softwoods and palm ...2 weeks ago -
Brazil confirms hydrocarbon strategy
Emerging Voice —
Authority: 124
Much has been made of Brazil’s offshore hydrocarbon deposits particularly in the Tupi oil & gas reserves which have been touted by state owned energy firm Petrobras as containing up to 5-8 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Tupi,which is located in the pre-salt region, is estimated to contain between ...2 weeks ago