Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Busch estate installs solar panels
Suburban Journals - Town and Country,MO,USA
"Illinois offers a $50000 grant on solar systems and pays up to $25000 on wind turbines." Farmergy also has a hand in biodiesel fuel and mostly targets ...
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IN BRIEF: Chevron Seeks Slime, Atraverda Gets $21.5M
Greentech Media - Cambridge,MA,USA
The collaboration is part of a five-year biofuel research alliance announced in 2006 between Chevron and the lab. Although Chevron is financing the efforts, ...
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San Jose's Environmental Plan Gets 'Green' Light
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Golden Gate Biofuel plant in San Jose is part of Mayor Reed's plan to help convert the South Bay, by driving public and transportation companies to ...
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Township initiates biodiesel program
Woodbridge Sentinel - NJ, USA
"We are looking for a grant from BPU to get us going with the solar panel project," said John Hagerty, communications director for the township. ...
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Chevron, Feds Hope to Make Biofuel from Algae
Wired Blogs - USA
They found that algae grew at levels 37 times higher than corn and 140 times higher than soybeans -- the two most common crops used for biofuel. ...
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Appropriate Technology Roundup 10/30/07
By Catherine Laine
Japanese government officials want to start using the millions of wooden chopsticks that go discarded each year as biofuel. The chopstick biofuel (chop-fuel, bio-sticks?)is seen as a way to reduce dependence on Middle East oil and ...
- http://www.aidg.org/blog

California Clean Tech Open Winners Announced Last Night
By Lara
BGT Biogasoline: Effective heptanone biofuel, alternative to ethanol EnerLynx: ICR Advanced Vehicle Engine Lightweight and efficient engine for trucks and buses High Merit Thermoelectrics: Converts waste heat to electricity ...
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Singapore strives to lead next round of biofuels race
By admin
... committed to spending 350 million Singapore dollars, or $240 million, in the next five years to help make Singapore a world leader in clean energy production, including both solar power - the government's main focus - and biofuels. ...
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Home :: Biofuel Cities - A European Partnership
Biofuel Cities European Partnership - a forum for the application of biofuels.
Open to all stakeholders in the area of biofuels for vehicles, ...
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Things Are Good: good news
Princeton University is looking into the details of using biofuels in jet airplanes.
The research team will examine what fuel mixture provides the best ...
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PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network
What's driving an Olympic rower to flex his muscles in biofuel ... After next
year's Olympics, he is determined to make his mark in the biofuel industry. ...
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TomPaine.com - Biofuel Backfire
It seems like only yesterday that "biofuels" was all the rage: not only has
President Bush relentlessly touted increased ethanol use, but so has House ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Commercial hopes for award-winning biodiesel bike
ABC Online - Australia
The motorcycle, run on biodiesel, completed the Darwin to Adelaide World Solar Challenge in seven days, winning an award for its team from Adelaide ...
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New "Green Building," Biomass and Solar Facilities
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
The Mesa Top PV Project will be located near the NREL Solar Radiation Research Laboratory, and will produce an estimated 750kW of clean, renewable electric ...
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Signing of UC-BP Biofuel Pact Is Imminent, Say Lab, UCB
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA
Another concern raised by Patzek and other scientists is the diversion of funding away from other possible energy sources, including solar. ...
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Every day, in every way, we're getting better and...
ZDNet Blogs - USA
Biofuel may not be energy-efficient but if it produces a marketable, lower cost fuel compared to any petroleum, derivative, it will be in demand. ...
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Q & A with Fund Managers of Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund
Alternative Energy Stocks - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The other significant difference is that a number of the areas of alternative energy – particularly hydro, geothermal, wind, solar and even biofuels – have ...
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The Pros and Cons of Biofuels
CarJunky.com - USA
And unlike other forms of renewable energy (like hydrogen, solar or wind), biofuels are easy for people and businesses to transition to without special ...
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IN BRIEF: Startup Snags $200M for Electric-Vehicle Battery Leasing ...
Greentech Media - Cambridge,MA,USA
Research and development efforts will focus on exploring biofuel options, including cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol is made from nonfood biomass like ...
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GreenVolts Secures $10 Million Series A Financing
Market Wire (press release) - USA
The company's biodiesel, solar and wind power companies help address current energy issues. The company is also engaged in the development of new ...
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Google Alert - biofuel solar
By BioFuel - Solar
Google News Alert for: biofuel solar. CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of . ...
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Who's Fueling Whom?
By admin
That's because biofuels will never match the one thing fossil fuels do brilliantly: concentrating solar energy. A gallon of gasoline represents the power of the sun gathered up and locked away by about 196000 pounds of plants and ...
Orangutan Outreach - http://redapes.org

Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels announces $500000 in ...
By Biopact team(Biopact team)
... and industry has announced $500000 in grants to 10 teams pursuing renewable energy research ranging from the solar conversion of plant material for fuels to genetic crop engineering. The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, ...
biopact - http://biopact.com/

The Nature of the New World
By Free
Faced with a seemingly insatiable demand for automotive fuel, farmers will want to clear more and more of the remaining tropical forests to produce sugarcane, oil palms, and other high-yielding biofuel crops. ...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Who's Fueling Whom?
Smithsonian - USA
That's because biofuels will never match the one thing fossil fuels do brilliantly: concentrating solar energy. A gallon of gasoline represents the power of ...
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The potential for renewable energy to deliver in large energy ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
... and solar water heating in China are all examples of successful domestic development. Brazil has set up an entire value chain for biofuels production. ...
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Working toward a greener energy policy
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA
"Green" high-performance buildings feature designs that maximize solar orientation to reduce the amount of energy consumed and are constructed with "green" ...
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Energy security: Need for advance planning
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
... alternative source to bio-fuel energy-oil and gas, which is gradually diminishing. India has to make available non-renewable energy (solar/wind/others) ...
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Upwardly mobile Africa: key to development lies in their hands
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"In tiny rural hamlets where there is no mains electricity you can pay 20 [Kenyan] shillings (15p) to have your mobile charged from a solar panel or a car ...
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Colorado Center For Biorefining And Biofuels Announces $500000 In ...
CU Boulder News & Events - Boulder,CO,USA
... research ranging from the solar conversion of plant material for fuels to genetic crop engineering. The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, ...
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High Oil Prices
Korea Times - South Korea
... energy resources using, for instance, solar energy, wind, tidal movement, hydraulic power and bio fuel as seen in many Western industrial nations.
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Power to the People: Dodd Man Out
Green Options blog - Berkeley,CA,USA
I do not support expanding nuclear options, but I do want to encourage wind, water, solar and biofuels expansion." Dodd is obviously unafraid to express his ...
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Hillary Clinton's Plan for Rural America
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
As President, she would work to implement a renewable electricity standard, and to increase tax incentives for wind, solar and other forms of renewable ...
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Future energy : Bio-ethanol
Wind really began in Europe, although since General Electric has gotten into it, it's [been] moving to the United States in a good way. Germany made a large government investment in solar. In biofuels, technically we're the leader, ...
Diary of GoogleGuy - http://GoogleGuy.rediffiland.com/

The strange world of carbon-negative bioenergy: the more you drive ...
By Biopact team(Biopact team)
When you capture the CO2 from the biomass power plant or the biofuel facility before it enters the atmosphere, and then sequester the greenhouse gas in geological formations such as depleted oil & gas fields, or saline acquifers, ...
biopact - http://biopact.com/

Google Alert - biofuel solar
By BioFuel - Solar
Google News Alert for: biofuel solar. CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of . ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Green agenda for everyone
Hindu - Chennai,India
... wind power to 25 times of the present, solar power to 700 times current capacity; stopping all deforestation; increasing ethanol biofuel production to ...
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Sinag Completes World Solar Challenge 2007
The Philippines first entry into the World Solar Challenge: Team Sinag, has successfully crossed the finish line at Adelaide Australia on October 27 10:33:00 AM. They finished the race with a day to spare and running in 11th place ...
alternat1ve - http://www.alternat1ve.com

Build It Solar -- free plans for hundreds of solar projects
Passive Cooling Over 50 ideas and projects for efficient cooling and air conditioning. News 10/27/2007 World Solar Challenge -- 3000km on solar UN Report wants Moratorium on Biofuel Plants... Austin -- zero energy homes by 2015 ...
Veggie & Boston Blog by Maynard S. Clark - http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MqEKk9k8er93iv.A4j6CcPaXFOY-?cq=1

Climate Change Made SImple
By albert2.0(albert2.0)
If we made fuel directly from plants, biofuel, the CO2 released as we drive around would be the same CO2 which was captured from the atmosphere a few months earlier. That way the amount of CO2 wouldn't increase. ...
Journey By Starlight - http://journeybystarlight.blogspot.com/

Stanford Hosts its Second Annual Roundtable Stanford Review ...
By BioFuel - Solar
Google News Alert for: biofuel solar. CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of . ...
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Energy and Fuels
By NIC(NIC)
Biofuels have been around since the internal combustion engine. Ethanol is added to petrol in the US, and millions of cars in Brazil are run on it too. Vegetable oils are already used in Europe to produce biodiesel. ...
EXTREME GREEN - http://xtremegreen.blogspot.com/

NexGenEnergy - High Yield Investments in Ethanol, Bio Fuel, Solar ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Stanford Hosts its Second Annual Roundtable
Stanford Review - Stanford,CA,USA
Certainly alternatives like biofuel will be part of the solution, but not being careful about this can be bad. Like growing corn for ethanol can actually ...
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Nuclear Smuggling MOU
Technology News Daily - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Coatings For Solar Cells Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, ...
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Google Alert - biofuel solar
By BioFuel - Solar
Google News Alert for: biofuel solar. CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of . ...
BioFuel - Solar - http://solarbiofuel.blogspot.com/

$1 trillion green market seen by 2030-Morgan Stanley
By climateer(climateer)
It rated the following companies as overweight-volatile: thin film solar company First Solar Inc, solar company SunPower Corp, biofuel company VeraSun Energy Corp., and emissions reducers Fuel Tech Inc. The report cautioned that sales ...
Climateer Investing - http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/

The Big Biofuels Blog
Coast to coast with Aphrodesia on thier JustVote Tour on recycled veg oil.They want to build a prototype biofuel-solar-windpowered bus (oh and they need a ...


Friday, October 26, 2007

QualityStocks.net "Top Movers and Shakers" for 10/26/2007
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA
ECOtality also announced this week that they will be sponsoring the International Youth Fuel Cell Competition, which will showcase solar and hydrogen fuel ...
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Clean Coal Gets a Boost in Britain
BusinessWeek - USA
... clean-energy producers in the past few years—according to one estimate, some $95 billion in 2007 alone for producers of wind, solar, and biofuel power. ...
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Power Revolution
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
"Building a biofuels plant here and a solar plant there is not enough," he says, "unless we can replace 50 percent and hopefully 100 percent of the fossil ...
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Renewable Stealth Tax
Wall Street Journal - USA
Currently, only about 3% is provided by such renewables as wind, solar or "biofuels." One obvious problem is that some states have better prospects for ...
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State charts green plans for harbor islands
Boston Globe - United States
State officials have charted an extensive plan to dot the 34 windswept islands and nearby stretches of harborfront with big and small wind turbines, solar ...
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Renewable Fuels For Alternative Energy
By Sis Rubz(Sis Rubz)
The University is in partnership with BP, and it will be responsible for research and development of new biofuel crops, biofuel-delivering agricultural systems, and machines to produce renewable fuels in liquid form for automobile ...
BIOFUELS - http://theneededbiofuels.blogspot.com/

Google Alert - biofuel solar
By BioFuel - Solar(BioFuel - Solar)
Google News Alert for: biofuel solar. CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of ...
BioFuel - Solar - http://solarbiofuel.blogspot.com/

The Big Green Bus
By Simon Robinson
Coast to coast with Aphrodesia on thier JustVote Tour on recycled veg oil.They want to build a prototype biofuel-solar-windpowered bus (oh and they need a sponsor)
The Big Biofuels Blog - http://www.icis.com/blogs/biofuels/


Thursday, October 25, 2007

CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland
Current biofuel production in the United States relies primarily on conversion of corn grain to ethanol, but future systems are expected to depend more ...
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QualityStocks.net "Top Movers and Shakers" for 10/25/2007
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA
H2Diesel Holdings, Inc., announced the successful completion of the first of three biofuel tests in their test program at Dynegy's Oakland Power Plant in ...
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Batteries charge up with VC cash
Cleantech - San Jose,CA,USA
The company is developing a modular, containerized, cost effective system to produce biofuel. Aldis, based in Knoxville, Tenn., received $1.9 million in ...
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Rural Energy for America Program
By jcwinnie
These incentives would be targeted to supply regions for new or existing biopower or biofuel plants. Grants to aid infrastructure improvements from field to biorefineries through development and demonstration of harvesting and storage ...
After Gutenberg - http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress

Welcome to Google Alert
By BioFuel - Solar(BioFuel - Solar)
San Diego Biodiesel Company New Leaf Biofuel New Leaf Biofuel is a San Diego biodiesel company focused on transforming the way companies fuel their vehicle fleets. New Leaf is focusing on providing ... http://www.newleafbiofuel.com/ ...
BioFuel - Solar - http://solarbiofuel.blogspot.com/

Clean Sweep 20
By Tim Chapman(Tim Chapman)
Biofuel tech a-go-go! GM feedstock developer Mendel Biotechnology raises an undisclosed round from ZBI Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, CFM, and Monsanto. Modular biorefinery business BioFuelBox takes a reported $9.5m from DFJ ...
Clean Ventures - http://cleanventures.blogspot.com/

Sub-Saharan dilemma: Food vs. fuel or radioactive waste?
By mrgreenbiz
Diatta also discussed some plans to experiment with solar power. But the overall dilemma is still stark. With no fossil fuel resources, the attraction of biofuels or nuclear power may overcome the concerns raised by critics who worry ...
MrGreen.Biz - http://mrgreenbiz.wordpress.com

Philippine's 1st Solar Car Entry is Halfway through the World ...
The Philippine's first ever World Solar Challenge entry has now hit the 2000 km milestone of the gruelling 3000km race in Australia. The car, cristened Sinag, is taken from the Filipino word meaning "Ray of Sunlight. ...
alternat1ve - http://www.alternat1ve.com


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Institute coordinates UF's sustainable energy efforts
University of Florida - Gainesville,FL,USA
More than 150 University of Florida faculty are hard at work each day developing new technologies — from fuel cells, batteries and solar cells, to biofuels, ...
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Panasonic World solar Challenge a hit with 550000 website hits ...
Current.com.au - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
By Martin Vedris DARWIN: The biennial Panasonic World Solar Challenge launched on its 3000 km journey through Australia's red centre from Darwin to Adelaide ...
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Sub-Saharan dilemma: Food vs. fuel or radioactive waste?
Salon - USA
Diatta also discussed some plans to experiment with solar power. But the overall dilemma is still stark. With no fossil fuel resources, the attraction of ...
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How to Predict the Future
InternetNews.com - USA
Solar? Bio-fuel? Wind? Squirrel power? If you're an investor, where should you put your money? If you're a voter, which candidate has the right ideas, ...
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Local alternative fuel program draws attention
Opelika Auburn News - Opelika,AL,USA
The school is currently working on a process that will turn the dark green, algal oil into a biofuel that will be used as an alternative fuel source to ...
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The potential for renewable energy to deliver in large energy ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology can be harnessed almost everywhere. The solar PV potential alone is many times higher than global electricity consumption ...
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AltCar Expo touts benefits of going green
Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica,CA,USA
Brenden McEneaney from Solar Santa Monica explained that one kilowatt of solar power will knock off an average of $30 from any electric bill. ...
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For further greening, Swarthmore should look to solar energy
Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online - PA, United States
Options like purchasing energy from power plants that use sunlight, installing solar panels or using energy from biofuel are becoming comparable in price to ...
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Solar racers take to the road
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
Nineteen energy-efficient vehicles are also taking part in a separate class of the event using a wide variety of low-carbon technologies, such as biofuels ...
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PowerShares Cleantech ETF: Timing Is Everything
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Holdings in PZD include stocks of biofuel producers, wastewater-treatment firms, transportation companies, energy storage manufacturers, and many other ...
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India's search for energy independence
Commodity Online - Kochi,Kerala,India
... research in the areas of alternate sustainable energy sources such as bio-fuel, photovoltaic cell for conversion of solar energy into electricity and ...
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Branford goes 'Green'
Branford Review - CT, United States
Morris also pursued the use of biofuel for heating oil. Biofuel contains a biodegradable component that is organic based and is called 'bioheat' when used ...
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New Biofuels Research Center Opens in East Bay
KCBS - CA,USA
(KCBS) -- A $135 million biofuels research center opened in Emeryville Monday intent on breaking America's dependence on foreign oil. ...
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The other side of global warming
By Peter Donovan
The next chapter will explain this new understanding through solar energy flow, water cycling, nutrient cycling, and community dynamics and succession. Then we'll practice with issues: biofuel crops, the Farm Bill, urban sprawl, ...
ManagingWholes.net - http://managingwholes.net

Volkswagen becomes shareholder in biofuel company CHOREN
By Zalmoxis(Zalmoxis)
Volkswagen becomes shareholder in biofuel company CHORENGreenHunter Energy Looks to China for Wind TurbinesGreenHunter Energy is focused on the renewable energy sectors of wind, solar, biofuels, and biomass power plants. ...
Biox Process and biodiesel - http://biox-process-and-biodiesel.blogspot.com/

CAST evaluates production of cellulosic biomass for biofuels
By Biopact team(Biopact team)
Increasing the efficient capture and use of solar radiation and all crop production inputs will increase the pool of biomass that can be allocated to competing demands (food, feed, fiber, and fuel). These advances must be accompanied by ...
biopact - http://biopact.com/

Leading scientists: energy crisis poses major 21st century threat ...
By Biopact team(Biopact team)
Governments should pay appropriate attention to promoting sustainable means of biofuels production and to avoiding conflicts between biofuel production and food production. Conclusion 8: development of new infrastructures ...
biopact - http://biopact.com/

Meet Ben Harper
Sprig's Jac Chebatoris talks with Ben Harper, a musician who's lo-fi with his beats and hi-fi with his green; his tour bus is biofuel and his home will soon be equipped with solar paneling.
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Renewable Energy Project Finance - financial training courses, in ...
This program will discuss approaches to financing wind, biomass /biofuel, solar and other renewable projects in many parts of the world, focusing on how ...

[Biofuel] Solar panals or wind
[Biofuel] Solar panals or wind. Tom Irwin Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:01:42 -0700. Hi All,. If climate change occurs from global warming do solar panels make more ...

NexGenEnergy - High Yield Investments in Ethanol, Bio Fuel, Solar ...
It means further active development of sun energy, wind energy, biofuel, fuel cells, etc. will take place. And more money and investments will flow in this ...

Think Progress » What Big Oil Doesn't Want You To Know About Biofuels
A combination of solar, wind and biofuels and even hydro and wave .... Biofuel and solar, on the other hand, do have the potential to supply all our energy ...

Renewable Energy Engineering, Energy Conservation Consulting, Wind ...
Renewable Energy Engineering, Energy Conservation Consulting, Wind,Biofuel,Solar. Toltec provides engineering and consulting services for the renewable ...

Alternative Fuel and Energy Information - Hydrogen, Ethanol ...
Learn about Hydrogen, Ethanol, Biodiesel, Solar, Wind and More. ... using blended bio fuel like E85 ethanol/unleaded gas blend and B20 bio diesel fuel, ...

The genius behind better biofuel Gristmill: The environmental ...
Thank you, amazingdrx, for pointing out that biofuel, solar, and all other sources of energy are not either/or propositions. Each has its place dependent on ...

BD 101: How to Make and Use Biodiesel Solar Living Institute
Solar Living Center 13771 S. Highway 101 Hopland CA 95449 Facility: Solar Living Center ... She is co-owner of Biofuel Oasis, the first biodiesel. ...

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It rated the following companies as overweight-volatile: thin film solar company First Solar Inc, solar company SunPower Corp, biofuel company VeraSun ...

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