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Sweden’s Scania has started full-scale operational trials with six ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses on the streets of Stockholm. Run in cooperation with Stockholm Public Transport and Swebus, the trials aim to further improve environmental conditions in the Swedish capital. The buses’ hybrid technology is expected to reduce fuel consumption by
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Texas-based EdenIQ today unveiled a new method for increasing the ethanol yield from corn (PDF). The Corn3 Yield Enhancement Program, as it’s called, boost production to more than three gallons from a bushel of corn, up from the industry average of 2.69 gallons per bushel. “In these turbulent
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As if corn-based ethanol hasn’t already taken enough of a beating for taking food out of people’s mouths and being a loser in the energy-equation and greenhouse-gas departments … now comes news that a prominent Saudi scholar warns that using biofuels is a sin. The Al Arabiya News Channel
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Verenium Company today announced plans to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, to be located in south-central Florida’s Highlands County. Set to begin operations in 2011, the proposed $250 million (US) to $300 million facility will get its biofuel feedstock from Lykes Bros. Inc., an agribusiness that farms
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Corn-based ethanol is so 2008, but a team of California researchers have found a potential energy source that could put cellulosic and algae-based biofuels on the “Out” list next. The source? E, coli. Yes, that’s right, E. coli as in Escherichia coli, the intestinal-based bacterium that’s been Public
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Too many Top-This-or-That-of-2008-type stories are published during the end-of-the-year holidays: who has time to read them all? That’s why, here at Greenbang, we’ve saved the wrapup (and look ahead) feature till now. Anyway, doing our Top-Stories-of-2008 story now makes sense in another way as well, as many of
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A global seed company has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to deregulate a genetically engineered (GE) variety of corn that shows an edge for ethanol production. Syngenta Seeds Inc. says the GE corn produces high levels of the alpha-amylase enzyme
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Robbie Burns would understand the current difficulties facing the well-intended ethanol market, which are aptly described these days as, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” Witness the latest situation in the U.S. state of Missouri, where fuel stations once required to sell a petrol-ethanol
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It seems that the US Department of Energy (DoE) can’t get enough of giving away cash to clean tech projects. Stories about the largesse of the DoE seem to crop up with all the regularity of editorials about Princess Diana/binge drinking/house price crashes in the Daily Mail,
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For a company whose name is dangerously close to the proper word for your gooch, (look it up on urban dictionary if you’re unsure – or don’t, if you’re at work and someone’s looking over your shoulder) biofuels bunch Verenium knows how to pull in the readies.
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Imagine if you could create biofuels from something that turned up ceaselessly and everyone hated and didn’t take up any extra resources into the bargain – like, say, red phone bills, armpit hair, cheese rinds or dust – that would be quite good, right? Well, scientists have apparently pinpointed an equally
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Greenbang is tearing down pictures of her loved ones from around her desk and replacing them with snaps of fungus. When you line up the achievements of friends and family next to those of mushrooms, there’s no contest. None of Greenbang’s relatives can secrete enzymes to clean dioxins