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New green chemical developments

Green Chemicals — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:14:53 GMT

In honor of post-Earth Day I am trying to clean up and consolidate all my Inbox's green news releases and so bear with me as I post more updates, this time on new green chemical research and developments. A University of Toronto research team from...(read more)

Greening your drugs

Green Chemicals — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:16:00 GMT

Thanks to Tom Nicolay of Research Advantage for the tip on the booming botanical and plant-derived drugs market. According to market research firm BCC Research , the global market for botanical and plant-derived drugs was worth $19.5 billion last year...(read more)

There's a plan!

The Big Biofuels Blog — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:22:38 GMT

The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels . Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night . Read More......(read more)

South Africa looks to biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps

The Big Biofuels Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:23:31 GMT

South Africa is looking at biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps, according to Engineering News from Creamer Media. According to the report: Dr Titus Mathe , The South African National Energy Research Institute's (Saneri's) programme manager, said...(read more)

Biomass could get tight from 2030

The Big Biofuels Blog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:07:45 GMT

Researchers In Denmark have been looking hard at the amount of biomass that will be available for biofuels after 2030 is going to become tight. This is what they say in a peer-reviewed paper in Environment Science Technology, produced by the American...(read more)

Shell is involved in six new biofuel research ventures

The Big Biofuels Blog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:36:12 GMT

Shell announced on 17 September that it was involved in six new research agreements for biofuels. This builds on a number of piecemeal announcements including an interest in a Hawaiian biofuel from algae ventur e and an agreement with Codexis . The best...(read more)

Don't throw your old newspaper!

Green Chemicals — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:59:20 GMT

According to this article from the New Journal of Chemistry , Japanese researchers from Saga University were able to recover precious metals such as gold, palladium and platinum from industrial wastewater using a sorption active gel formed from chemically...(read more)

Sao Paulo marshalls its biofuel resources

The Big Biofuels Blog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:57:03 GMT

Over on Temas blog, my friend Keith Ripley has a piece on how the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo is getting all of its resources together to study the future of biofuels . This is big potatoes in a state which rivals the US in the volume of ethanol it produces...(read more)

IBM gets their solar idea from kids

Green Chemicals — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:23:16 GMT

Another bright idea to lower cost of solar technology came from the minds of children, according to IBM. Like using a magnifying glass to burn a piece of paper with the use of the sun's rays, IBM constructed a really large lens to capture the sun's...(read more)

Solar meltdown predicted

Green Chemicals — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:55:32 GMT

Just as I was recently thinking of letting some solar stocks shine on my meager technology portfolio, a doom-and-gloom scenario was recently predicted by the research firm, Lux Research . Lux said the superheated global solar industry will soon experience...(read more)