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New Knowledge About Thermoelectric Materials Could Give Better Energy Efficiency
ScienceDaily | Energy Technology | News 14 10 2008 New research could be used to develop motors that are more fuel-efficient and provide for more environmentally friendly cooling methods. The new data describes properties of thermoelectric materials.
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CleanTech Biofuels closes merger of Biomass North America Licensing into subsidiary - Quick facts (Nasdaq)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 14 10 2008 (RTTNews) - CleanTech Biofuels Inc. (CLTH.OB) announced that it has closed the merger of Biomass North America Licensing Inc. into its wholly-owned subsidiary.
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CleanTech Biofuels Completes Acquisition and Moves to Develop Commercial Site (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 14 10 2008 CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. announces that it has closed the merger of Biomass North America Licensing, Inc. into its wholly-owned subsidiary.
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Earth Biofuels officials plan to reopen plant (Durant Daily Democrat)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 DURANT â€' Officials with Earth Biofuels say that, although the plant has not produced any fuel since November 2007, they plan to have it back in operation, pending financing and retrofitting of equipment for a biodiesel fuel that is profitable to produce.
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Producing new U.S. energy crops by the barrel
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 ARS scientists in Peoria, Ill., have produced oils of camelina, canola, Cuphea, lesquerella, milkweed and pennycress by the barrelful in their commercial-scale pilot plant.
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Models help assess biofuels' sustainability
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 Many agricultural products can be converted into feedstocks for alternative fuel. Now analysis from the ARS suggests that they can be used this way without reducing the nation's food supply, soil production capacity or environmental quality.
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Mushroom enzyme could strip pollutants from fuel cells
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 A chemical found in mushrooms could one day replace the expensive and polluting heavy metals at the heart of fuel cells and conventional batteries, say chemists at Oxford University, boosting the development of clean power.
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India seeks a stop to diversion of food to fuel
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 WASHINGTON, DC - India has demanded an immediate stop to diversion of food crops, particularly corn in the United States, for producing biofuels to check a rise in food prices in the short term.
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City trash plus farm leftovers may yield clean energy
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 ALBANY, NY - Tomorrow's household garbage might be blended with after-harvest leftovers from fields, orchards, and vineyards to make ethanol and other kinds of bioenergy, say scientists at the Agricultural Research Service Western Regional Research Center in Albany.
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Europe advises Asean against nuclear energy
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union (EU) has advised the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to go for cheaper and less risky renewable energy rather than nuclear power.
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Soybeans, coconuts to power jets
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 WASHINGTON, DC - Scientists in the US have turned oil from plants like soybeans and coconuts into jet fuel that is equivalent to kerosene derived from oil.
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Unclear future for alternate petrol - Maxol
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 IRELAND - The future of bioethanol as an alternative to petrol is in doubt after one of the main suppliers expressed doubts whether it will ever prove commercially viable.
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Sweet on sorghum
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 Sweet sorghum is best known as a syrup poured over hot biscuits.
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UF officials dedicate ethanol plant
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 An ethanol plant at the University of Florida could help the nation kick its oil habit, as well as help the U.S. move away from using corn to make the alternative fuel.
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Venture Capital Looks to New Sources of Biofuels (Planet Ark)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 13 10 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Corn-based ethanol is yesterday's news for venture capitalists who, these days, are betting on everything from wood chips and algae to turkey guts and trash as potential sources of next-generation biofuels.
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British biofuels hit the environmental mark FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 12 10 2008 Nearly all (97%) of biofuels sourced from British feedstocks met the government’s RTFO (Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation) environmental standards, according to the first report by the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) â€' the body set up to administer the RTFO. That compared with just 20% for all biofuels used by UK fuel companies.
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State to provide biofuels at various stations (The Florence Times-Daily)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 12 10 2008 Alabama has joined the Interstate 65 Biofuels Corridor that soon will have service stations selling alternative gasoline and diesel fuel from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Earth Biofuels officials plan to reopen plant (Durant Daily Democrat)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 12 10 2008 DURANT â€' Officials with Earth Biofuels say that, although the plant has not produced any fuel since November 2007, they plan to have it back in operation, pending financing and retrofitting of equipment for a biodiesel fuel that is profitable to produce.
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State conferences to focus on biofuels (Tulsa World)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 11 10 2008 "Grow: The Oklahoma Biofuels Conference" will be Nov. 12-13 at the Skirvin Hotel, while the first-ever "Revolution" wind energy conference will be Dec. 2-3 at the Cox Convention Center.
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USDA and DOE unveil their National Biofuels Action Plan (Wharton Journal-Spectator)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 11 10 2008 Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer and Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman released the National Biofuels Action Plan Tuesday, an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of Federal agencies to accelerate the development of a sustainable biofuels industry.
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New Generation Biofuels Announces First Sale to Industrial Heating Customer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 10 10 2008 LAKE MARY, Fla.----Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. , today announced that it has signed a sales agreement with Taunton State Hospital in Taunton, MA, to provide renewable biofuel.
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Examine the Political and Environmental Landscape for Biofuels in the EU Transport Sector (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Yahoo! | Biofuels | News 10 10 2008 DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Political and Environmental Landscape for Biofuels in the EU Transport Sector" report to their offering.
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Experts Agree: To protect the environment, biofuel standards are needed
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 10 10 2008 MILLBROOK, NY - The United States lacks the policies needed to ensure that cellulosic biofuel production will not cause environmental harm, says a distinguished group of international scientists.
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CSU closer to large-scale algae biofuel production
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 10 10 2008 FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Running your car on fuel made from algae is getting closer to reality thanks to research being done in Fort Collins.
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$2bn fund for secondary agriculture suggested
Checkbiotech | Biofuels | News 10 10 2008 NEW DELHI, India - A panel formed by the government in 2006 has proposed the creation of a $2 billion fund to boost so-called secondary agriculture, including the extraction of oil from rice bran, milk from soya bean and industrial chemicals and biofuel from sugar cane, an official said.
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