Monday, November 12, 2007

S'pore targets S$34b in value-add to energy industry by 2015
Channel News Asia - Singapore
Singapore is also developing the energy industry by pursuing opportunities in clean energy, including solar energy, biofuels and fuel cells, to meet rising ...
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Cleantech Network reports record high investment levels for ...
Ecolog.com (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The Cleantech Network also reported continuing dominance of the two leading energy generation segments, solar and biofuels. Solar investment during Q3-2007 ...
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Cleantech investments pass $1 billion with latest SDTC funding awards
Ecolog.com (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... solar concentrating technology with a new closed-loop photo bioreactor (PBR) system, using algae to sequester the CO2 and to generate biofuel feedstock. ...
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WFU to Present Workshop on Local Climate Change, Biofuels
Wisconsin Ag Connection - Marshfield,WI,USA
... Dr. Kenneth Walz and Paul Morchauser, Madison Area Technical College; Luke Mathews, Prairie Fire Biofuels Co-op; and Dr. Farhat Iqbal, Slilca Solar, ...
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Energy Roundup: Higher Corn Price Seen
Houston Chronicle - United States
Solar companies and investors are concerned about a notice on the Web site of the Solar Energy Industries Association that says congressional leaders are ...
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Southern powerhouses home in on trade and technology cooperation
Engineering News (press release) - Garden View,South Africa
... projects and collaboration for the increased usage of alternative sources of energy such as biofuels, synthetic fuels, and wind and solar energy to help ...
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SPAIN: Biofuels - Good for Business, Bad for the Poor, Say Activists
IPS - Italy
Brazil has "great experience" in ethanol production, and Spain could contribute know-how in wind and solar energy, said Clos, who visited the South American ...
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Your View — Minnesotans need better choice at the gas pump
Mankato Free Press - Mankato,MN,USA
... sources such as solar, wind and hydrogen. Unlike Gordon, we recognize that biofuels have an important role today as a "clean air choice" for Minnesotans.
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Commitment to adjust practices often begins with little steps
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
At Wells Fargo, it meant setting aside $1 billion to finance solar panels and other green projects. Many times, a company's commitment to go green starts ...
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Politico claimed Dems' energy plans "set[] goals so distant that ...
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
As president, Obama will seek to surpass these targets and establish a requirement to produce at least 60 billion gallons of biofuels, including cellulosic ...
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BRAZIL: Biofuel Revolution Reaches Airline Industry
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
His dream was frustrated by lack of government interest in the production of biofuel, including biokerosene, which was tested in 1983 with a successful ...
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How green is my valley?
ic Wales - United Kingdom
These days, the St Davids group is going from strength to strength: for example, there'sa biofuel scheme using recycled vegetable oil, solar panels and ...
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Clean energy no longer just a pipe dream
Taipei Times - Taiwan
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center have run calculations for desert-based concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's ...
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New Clinton ads
MSNBC - USA
"I will put $50 billion to work with wind and solar and biofuels to help us move away from our dependence on foreign oil." The New York senator says she ...
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The Renewable Electron Economy Part VIII.1: The Electric Farm
By terraverde
Current biofuel conversion processes capture around 0.15% of solar energy that is then only converted into around 0.05% of work capacity by your typical diesel engine. The idling that tractors engage in during the work day waste further ...
Green Thoughts - http://terraverde.wordpress.com

Delusions of a Harvard Professor
By Robert Rapier(Robert Rapier)
Lots of people disagree with what he sees, including the EIA who forecasts biofuels to supply less than 2% of our liquid fuel needs by 2030. But the Harvard Professor peers into the future, and the view is clear. ...
R-Squared Energy Blog - http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/

Congress, :sigh:
By LeisureGuy
Meanwhile, the current bill seems to throw a bone to all the old dogs - oil, coal, natural gas, while appeasing heartland legislators through biofuel subsidies to farmers in Midwestern states. Those of us who care about climate change ...
Later On - http://leisureguy.wordpress.com

News - Green Room: Our writers talk back
By mariko
The expansion of biofuel crops is certainly having an impact on food commodity prices already, which the commodity traders may consider good news. But in many parts of the tropics, land that may be extremely important for biodiversity ...
Dating experts native people - http://cursoscomputacion.us/onlinechristiandatin

Oil From Wood Waste
By Big Gav(Big Gav)
Cleantech.com - Cash flows into solar power and biofuel * TreeHugger - Office Building Lit By 100% LED Light * Cleantech.com - Range Fuels' Mitch Mandich breaks ground in cellulosic ethanol * Green Car Congress - University of Alberta ...
Peak Energy - http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/

Google Alert - biofuel solar
By 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/

Scientists Criticize IPCC Report on Biofuels
By Confidential Reporter(Confidential Reporter)
In contrast, for example, the use of inefficient solar cells to recharge inefficient batteries in hybrid cars is at least 100 times more energy-efficient than any current land-use system for producing ethanol, and solar cells can be ...
China Confidential - http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/

The Week in Green
By James Murray
Consequently, there have been some pretty damning stories this week highlighting firms getting it badly wrong, ranging from Shell's "misleading" green ads to those household names and burgeoning biofuel companies who may be touting ...
- http://blog.businessgreen.com/

News - Green Room: Our writers talk back
By nganaimbez
The expansion of biofuel crops is certainly having an impact on food commodity prices already, which the commodity traders may consider good news. But in many parts of the tropics, land that may be extremely important for biodiversity ...
Dating great idea - http://100freeonlinedatinga.wuoe.com

ODAC Newsletter, Wednesday 07 November
By Doug Low
Oil / Petrol Prices, US EIA Forecasts; Peak Oil films - A Crude Awakening and Crude Impact; Economy; Natural Gas - GTL and Nord Stream; Peak Oil in the UK; Peak Oil in the Saudi Media; Oil Shales; Biofuels; IEA's World Energy Outlook ...
The Oil Drum - Discussions about... - http://www.theoildrum.com

Renewable Fuels for Alternative Energy
By Quick Information
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 ...
Quick Information - http://quickinformation.net

Daily Biofuels Summary for November 8: Food riots expand to ...
By Jim Lane
"I'm sorry, we cannot use wind, we cannot use solar just because of where we are," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said. "If hydropower and nuclear were included, we could run the standard up to 40 percent or 50 percent." ...
Biofuels Digest - http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2

More Democratic corruption and caving
By LeisureGuy
Meanwhile, the current bill seems to throw a bone to all the old dogs - oil, coal, natural gas, while appeasing heartland legislators through biofuel subsidies to farmers in Midwestern states. Those of us who care about climate change ...
Later On - http://leisureguy.wordpress.com

The 2007 San Francisco Green Festival
By E. "Doc" Smith via Beyond Chron(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Friday, November 9, 2007 : In 2004, I attended my first San Francisco Green Festival, a veritable feast of alternative living; from solar homes to green investing, from sustainable fabrics to the veggie-oil bio-fuel called biodiesel. ...
Indybay newswire - http://www.indybay.org/

Carbon Negative Vs Carbon Neutral Ethanol Production
By AMS Admin(AMS Admin)
Once built, however, a properly designed and constructed solar cell will produce much more electric energy during it's lifetime than the energy required to construct it. Today biofuels, like fossil fuels, are "carbon positive. ...
Cellulosic Ethanol Blog - http://cellulosicethanolblog.blogspot.com/


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