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Coconuts for biofuels
Researchers at Baylor University, Texas have been working with academics from Papua New Guinea to make biofuel from coconut oil. The technology looks to centre around a device which separates coconut milk from the oil as it crushes individual coconuts...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
Air New Zealand in biofuel test flight
Air New Zealand successfully flew a plane for around two hours with one of its engines modified to run on a mixture of jatropha-derived biofuel and Jet A, over the Christmas break. I've written about it before, and this piece...
New Generation Biofuels offers stock, gains trials
New Generation Biofuels is offering stock for sale through its prospectus. New Generation uses a proprietary technology exclusively licensed in the US from Ferninando Petrucci, who owns around 5.4% of the firm. The financial engineering behind the relationship is at...
Algae Biofuel firm aims to buck credit crunch trend
An Algae Biofuel firm in New Zealand aims to buck credit crunch trend with an IPO of 60m shares at 50cent each. That could raise New Zealand dollars (NZD) 30m ($17m) for Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, based on South Island, according...
Air New Zeland to fly bifouel
This release came in overnight from my colleagues in the US. It takes us further with the Air New Zealand/Rolls Royce biofuels trials. It is notable because it will be using Jatropha derived biofuel. The fuel will be mixed 50:50...
Rolls Royce trials Jatropha biofuel in Derby
Rolls Royce is trialling Jatropha biofuel at its test beds in Derby, in the Midlands of England, the engine maker is working with Air New Zealand which is planning to fly a Boeing from Aukland using the fuel in one...
Distillers grains and cattle.
OK this is slightly off beam, but a lot of people are very keen of feeding distillers grains to cattle. For some ethanol plants it is the most profitable part of the business. Animal husbandry is not an area that...
Now Silkweed is a potential biofuel
Silkweed is a potential biofuel, according to a website connected to a local TV station in Vermont. Silkweed is good for butterflies. It will be planted by Innovation Fuels, which it will turn into biodiesel. ...
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008 the firm is working with Rolls Royce which has been looking at Jatropha-based fuels since 2005. ...
New scientist says non-food biofuel crops are weeds
Non-food biofuel speceis are invasive, according to the New Scientist. Of course they are, they're weeds. If people don't eat plants or the subtances they produce and if the plant is not in someway ornamental, then its a weed. On...
I'm off to New York
I'm sitting in a very noisy cafe on a seat with a great view of people bored with shopping in Termainal 3 at Heathrow. I had hoped to be able to fit in a stint as a moderator at the...
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food?
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food? Despite the measured tones (and graph) in my previous post (Is the price of corn too low?),the price of bagels in New York seems to be more closely...
ConAgra drops Clovis ethanol plan on costs
ConAgra looks to have pulled out of a plan to build an ethanol plant in Clovis, New Mexico, because the price of corn and water would have been too high, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Corn you can expect, but...
Genencor has given more details of its enzyme for 2 gen biofuels
Genencor has given more details of its enzyme package for second generation biofuels at a press conference in New York today....
The New York Times gets Jatropha
The New York Times gets Jatropha! in a recent story the newspaper with its finger on the beating pulse of the world's most important city (after the city in which you live) has discovered the magic plant. My advice: Look...
Renewable Power and Light goes to court
Renewable Power and Light is going to court in the US to sue Safari, which has found itself unable to supply palm oil at a price agreed about two years ago. In a statement to the Alternative Investment Market, part...
Air New Zealand speaks about algae biofuels
I asked Air New Zealand to confirm or deny that it was involved in investigating biofuels from algae, after the post yesterday about wild algal jet fuels . Here's' what their spokesperson said:...
Now wild algal jet fuel
Aquaflow Bionmic Corporation is now developing wild algal jet fuel. The idea to harvest algae directly from the settling ponds of standard Effluent Management Systems and other nutrient-rich water. ABC says the process helps to optimise the efficiency of...
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