July 3, 2009
PR Web
US Biofuels Gains Greenhouses for Green Fuel Production
US Biofuels, Inc, a CA based company is setting to launch major green fuel production with recent gains of twelve greenhouses expanding over eight acres in size. Each greenhouse will be used for the purpose of growing algae in a closed system, using the photobioreactor (PBR) process for the production of...
July 3, 2009
Gas.com
Co-ordinated effort can realise energy targets
The UK has gone well beyond other countries with its greenhouse-gas targets, having committed to reducing carbon emissions by 34 per cent from 1990 to 2020.
July 3, 2009
IStock Analyst
At Union, a Different Kind of Test
(Source: Times Union)By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jul. 3--SCHENECTADY -- Here at Beuth House on the Union College campus, students will burn the midnight oil this fall using hydrogen.
July 3, 2009
Zibb
Enfinity Will Develop China's Largest and First PV Power Station
A Joint Bidding Team, Initiated by Enfinity, Won the First 10 MWp Solar Concession Project The Dunhuang PV Project involves an investment of 200 million yuan (27 mio euro), with an annual power production of 16.
July 3, 2009
The New York Times
Blue Square Energy Turns to Survival Plan to Stay Afloat
You know the solar industry is hurting when a startup with a promising cell manufacturing technology turns to systems integration to stay afloat. Thats the recent story of Blue Square Energy, which was launched to develop and manufacture low-cost solar cells using upgraded metallurgical-grade (UMG) silicon..
July 2, 2009
The New York Times
Lessons From the Cello Energy Biofuel Fraud Case - Do Your Homework
As far as speed bumps for cellulosic ethanol ventures go, this ones a doozy: Jurors in a federal court have ordered Cello Energy, a biofuel startup run by Alabamas former ethics chairman, Jack Boykin, and backed by both Silicon Valley cleantech investors Khosla Ventures and pulp maker Parsons & Whittemore..
July 2, 2009
Anarkismo.net
Colombian bio-energy boom is a bust for farmers
Colombia s biofuel industry is increasingly coming under scrutiny for human rights abuses. Palm tree oil companies in particular have been accused of using using illegal militias to seize land from thousands of primarily Afro-Colombian and indigenous farmers.
July 2, 2009
Isla Earth
Sweet Solution For Making Ethanol
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive. In a recent study published by the American Chemical Society, they reported that exposing fermenting sugar cane to low frequency magnetic waves increased ethanol output by..