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New Molecular Toolkit Optimizes Algae Performance and Productivity
ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Aurora Biofuels announces a technological milestone in the company’s path to becoming the premier producer of low-cost advanced biofuels. Through a series of biotechnology achievements, Aurora has succeeded in optimizing its base algae strains to more than double CO2 consumption and fuel production, and has proven these results in an outdoor open system over the last several months.
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Posted on August 21, 2009 · in Press Releases
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WE Energies has proclaimed that it has captured carbon at a coal-fired plant, but this “success” won’t come close to making coal clean.
The clean-tech world is aglow with the news of WE Energies’ recent “success” in capturing carbon at the coal-fired power plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Some are heralding a new day for “clean coal,” a day that finally promises the ongoing survival of a 19th century energy system through the cunning of a 21st century technology.
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Posted on June 3, 2009 · in USA
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Investment in biofuels might lead to more hunger and is unlikely to help curb carbon dioxide emissions significantly till 2030, according to a new research finding released by OFID-IIASA.
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Posted on May 8, 2009 · in Global
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WASHINGTON – A newly published study shows that effective land management practices can reduce the so called carbon debt attributed to biofuels to near zero. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with growing agricultural feedstocks for biofuels can be greatly reduced using available crop management techniques, such as no-till agriculture, according to the new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology by Bruce Dale and Seungdo Kim of Michigan State University and Hyungtae Kim of Phillips Academy Andover.
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Posted on January 16, 2009 · in Global
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Bentley, the British-based luxury carmaker owned by Germany’s Volkswagen, reckons biofuels are the key to cutting its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on the way to a greener future.
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Posted on December 22, 2008 · in Europe
