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 Brussels (AFP) July 7, 2009 
European Union nations decided Tuesday to impose anti-dumping duties on US biodiesel imports, which are suspected to be heavily subsidised, an EU diplomat said Tuesday. The proposal, by the European Commission, was adopted by the 27-country bloc's finance ministers at a meeting in Brussels, the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity. The duties, to come into force by July 12, range ... read more
Half Moon Bay CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2009One of California's most powerful landfill gas-to-energy projects to open in the last five years has started supplying renewable electricity to the San Francisco Bay region as the state continues implementing new anti-greenhouse gas initiatives. The output of the plant is enough to provide electrical power for 7,500 to 10,000 average U.S. homes and will be sold to existing customers and ... more
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Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 30, 2009Scania has sold 85 ethanol-powered articulated buses to Busslink, operator of bus services for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the regional public transport company in the Swedish capital. "A continued commitment to ethanol power is consistent with SL's decision to buy only buses that operate on renewable fuels starting in 2010," says Leif Nystrom, who is in charge of bus and coach sales ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 29, 2009Dow Chemical announced plans Monday to join Algenol Biofuels in a pilot-scale project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's Freeport, Texas site. The project will use Algenol's technology that calls for carbon dioxide and saltwater supplied to algae in photobioreactors to produce the biofuel. Also contributing are the ... more 
Campinas, Brazil (SPX) Jun 30, 2009Amyris Brasil Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento has announced the opening of the Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Campinas. The facility, located in the midst of the sugar cane processing industry, secures the final development step before full commercial production of Amyris's renewable products. The facility is the first of its kind in Brazil, and is designed to execute ... more 
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2009Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry have released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. According to the study, Evaluation of Bio-Derived Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (Bio-SPK), a series of laboratory, ground and flight tests conducted be ... more |
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Missoula MT (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Vega Promotional Systems has announced through its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Fuels Industries, it is planning to construct a manufacturing facility in the State of Georgia to produce alternative energy from organic waste. According to a recent Forbes Magazine article entitled "America's Best Places For Alternative Energy," the abundance of biomass in Georgia's Bioenergy Corridor ... more 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 26, 2009What if the future of greener, more sustainable energy solutions isn't to be found in wind, solar, hydroelectric, and/or ethanol-based power, but instead lies in the efficient combustion of cellulosic biomass (e.g., wood chips, sawdust, switch grass, corn husks, pine needles, paper pulp, etc.) that can be used to create green electricity? "Unlike oil and coal, power generated from biomass ... more 
Guessing, Austria (AFP) June 24, 2009A new plant that produces gas from wood was opened in Austria on Wednesday, paving the way towards new possibilities in renewable energy. According to its backers, the gas produced at the plant can be used in urban heating systems, for gas-powered cars or by power stations that work on gas. "We still need fossil fuel of course, but this plant shows what is technically possible," Austria' ... more 
Petropolis, Brazil (AFP) June 23, 2009High in the cool hills of eastern Brazil, this tourist hot spot also known as the Imperial City is attracting worldwide attention thanks an innovative scheme to recycle human sewage. It has fostered a relatively simple idea now gaining traction in other parts of Latin America and as far afield as Spain, as nations struggle with the impact of burgeoning populations compounded by dwindling ... more |
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