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The Big Shift: Four Principles for the shift from a fossil fuel based society
In the 2010 Dodgen Lecture at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, and in the Q&A that followed, Digest editor Jim Lane described four Principles that he suggested must be observed in order to successfully complete the transition away from a fossil-fuel based society.
1. The right to clean, affordable energy is a [...]
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GreenNow deploys heating system for B100 biodiesel-based mobile generators
In New York, GreeNow has announced a heating system for its B100 biodiesel-driven generators and fuel tanks that will make it feasible to use GreeNow generators in sub-20 degree temperatures, where previously generators struggled with gelling issues with the fuel. The company, which uses soy biodiesel, has been selected to provide generators for the Knickerbocker [...]
GreenNow deploys heating system for B100 biodiesel-based mobile generators is a post from: Biofuels Digest
Profile of Carbon Sciences and its CO2-to-fuel technology
In California, Carbon Sciences announced a series of technical developments to increase the commercialization pace for its technology that produces renewable gasoline and jet fuel directly from CO2 and water without the need for an intermediate production of biomass. The company uses proprietary enzymes and with this round of development, has announced that it can [...]
Profile of Carbon Sciences and its CO2-to-fuel technology is a post from: Biofuels Digest
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “[The WWF] evidently has some problems with numbers.”
World Growth chairman Alan Oxley, in The Australian: “The World Wildlife Fund delivers some reputable and important conservation programs. It’s also an environmental activist. And in that capacity, it evidently has some problems with numbers…Bjorn Lomborg, global environmental expert and statistician, reported this problem in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist more than a decade ago. [...]
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Starus Group invests $4.5 million in Amyris’s Brazilian subsidiary
In Brazil, Stratus Group announced that it will invest $5.4 million in a Brazilian subsidiary of Amyris Biotechnologies through the Stratus Cleantech funds., The funding will be applied towards a $75 million investment by Amyris in the Bioa Vista sugar mill, where the company will deploy its advanced synthetic biology to produce renewable gasoline renewable [...]
Starus Group invests $4.5 million in Amyris’s Brazilian subsidiary is a post from: Biofuels Digest
106 Mgy wheat ethanol plant commences operation in UK
The 106 Mgy Ensus wheat ethanol plant has commenced operations in Wilton, Teesside, producing 386,000 tons of distillers grains. Ethanol Producer reports that “According to Ensus CEO Alwyn Hughes, more than 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced at the plant will be captured for use in the food and beverage industries in an effort to [...]
106 Mgy wheat ethanol plant commences operation in UK is a post from: Biofuels Digest
Green Vision, Heartland join NDSU to develop heat and power from sugar beet stillage
In North Dakota, Green Vision Group and Heartland Renewable Energy have joined researchers from North Dakota State University in a project to recycle sugar beet waste stillage from ethanol production for heat and power at the ethanol plant, replacing natural gas among other sources. The project aims to make sugar beet ethanol more economically feasible [...]
Green Vision, Heartland join NDSU to develop heat and power from sugar beet stillage is a post from: Biofuels Digest
