Xconomy:
cleantech, Biofuels, startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Seattle-based Blue Marble Energy, the developer of renewable energy and specialty chemicals from biomass, said it has received a $2 million state grant through a partne (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
They keep our homes warm in style, and are a renewable energy source to boot. What's not to like about wood-burning stoves, asks Dominic Murphy Why buy one? It's potentially carbon neutral. Although burning logs releases CO2, (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Rice = food and electricity at the same time... photo: ya po guille via flickr.One solution for getting clean electricity to the 440-some million people in rural India who currently don't have grid power (or any power...) is (Read More)
BioFuels Journal:
Hereford, TX—As the bioenergy industry is discovering, the most versatile feedstock for ethanol production is sorghum because of the crop’s unique fit and conversion value in all methods of converting biomass into fuel.“As th (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo: CleanTechnicaFrom chickens to cows to algae, energy generated from biomass is making a big impact worldwide. With last year's launch of the world's largest biomass plant in the Netherlands - running on chicken manure - (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Schools, stadiums and railway stations could see quick installation of renewable technologies under government proposalsWind turbines up to 15 metres high could be put up in industrial estates or farmland without planning per (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo: CleanTechnicaFrom chickens to cows to algae, energy generated from biomass is making a big impact worldwide. With last year's launch of the world's largest biomass plant in the Netherlands - running on chicken manure - (Read More)
BioFuels Journal:
Englewood, CO—Gevo announced Nov. 13 that it hasbeen awarded $1.8 million from the U.S. Departments of Energy andAgriculture's Biomass RandD Initiative to help fund ongoing development ofits yeast strain to produce biobutanol (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'Gasification' process enhanced to save millions of tonnes of carbon and provide energyMillions of tonnes of carbon dioxide could be prevented from entering the atmosphere following the discovery of a way to turn coal, grass (Read More)
The Guardian:
Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide could be prevented from entering the atmosphere following the discovery of a way to turn coal, grass or municipal waste more efficiently into clean fuels. Scientists have adapted a proces (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 'battle plan' for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear powerIt will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long t (Read More)
BioFuels Journal:
Granite Falls, MN—Fagen, Inc. of Granite Falls, MN, has reached an agreement with wholesale energy supplier Southern Power for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, (Read More)
BioFuels Journal:
Irvine, CA—VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a clean energy company growing Giant King(TM) grass as a renewable, low carbon, energy crop, announced Nov. 10 it has applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to tra (Read More)
BioFuels Journal:
Thousand Oaks, CAEnergy crop company Ceres, Inc. announced Nov. 10 that it plans to expand an advanced trait development project to increase biomass yields of several energy grasses by as much as 40% in coming years, while si (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image credit: 10:10 CampaignThe 10:10 Campaign has been receiving massive attention in the UK, signing up everyone from government ministers to major corporations with pledges to cut their own CO2 emissions 10% by 2010. It al (Read More)