Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'green'
Capturing CO2 from cement works with algae
There's a large algae reactor underway in Spain based around the Holcem cement reactor, which will be around 100 square metres and cost $92m, according to Greentech media. The reactor is being built by Green Fuels Technology Corp. ...
Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection
Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection, according to my colleague Doris De Guzman on Green Chemicals Blog. The with suitable injections of bacteria, the plants grow faster and can help remove heavy metal residues...
Now its "green" to ship trees to power stations
Now it is "green" to ship trees to power stations and burn them, according to E.ON in this report from Cleantech. E.ON, which is planning a timber fired electricity generation station in the Port of Bristol. Is it sustainable? What...
One Australian Senator's view of high oil prices
She wants 90% of petrol demand to be replaced by biofuels and electicity using lignocellulose and waste by 2050...Get with the greens to oil proof Australia....
Yellow is not green
Yellow is not green, necessarily. Using yellow corn to make green ethanol for cars is not necessarily the most environmentally sensitive way of making biofuels. Using biofuels in cars with poor fuel economy is close to being a profligate waste...
Bob Metlcalf takes helm of Greenfuel technologies
According to Cnet Bob Metcalf has taken the helm of Greenfuel Technologies replacing Carry Bullock. Layoffs are expected at the algae to biofuels firm, according to Cnet. A letter purportedly from Metcalf outlined one of the difficulties behind the firm's...
Biofuels may be green but look increasingly bloody
Biofuels may be green but look increasingly bloody in Columbia, where according to the Guardian on line... Armed groups in Colombia are driving peasants off their land to make way for plantations of palm oil, a biofuel that is being...
Land for food or land for fuel, Unilever speaks out
The conflict between land for food or lan for fuel was highlighted on Monday by at a conference organised by the European Parliament's green group and reported yesterday by EUobserver. "Land availability for both food and fuel is very questionable", managing...
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