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7 Myths about Global Food Crisis »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 6 months ago in Health & Fitness
One myth that many around the world believe is that the production of biofuels causes world hunger because of a shortage of food crops. This ...
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Products From Waste May Help Make Biofuels Stick Around »
Posted by: STONERS 3 weeks, 4 days ago in News
While research proceeds at a lively pace on how to convert plants into fuel, particularly within the arena of cellulosic ethanol that will help us ...
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Biofuels worse for climate change than fossil fuels »
Posted by: STONERS 7 months ago in Science & Technology
In many cases biofuels cause more global warming than fossil fuels. This is the conclusion reached by scientists modelling the carbon dioxide impact from both ...
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NZ Air Lines Jet Partly Run On VEGGIE OIL »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 11 months ago in Science & Technology
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight Tuesday to test a biofuel that could lower ...
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Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Crops give more kilometres per hectare if used to power electric vehicles.
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Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought »
Posted by: jhonrock 1 month ago in Science & Technology
A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from ...
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Jatropha Helps Air New Zealand Cut Its CO2 Emissions by More Than 60% »
Posted by: altnrg 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Recently, Air New Zealand ran a test flight of a jet plane fueled with a biofuel blend made with jatropha. The results showed a fuel ...
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Biofuels Not Enough to Offset Damage Caused by Deforestation »
Posted by: suzanek 4 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A contentious topic that we've often seen batted around in policy circles and scientific forums over the past few months has concerned the long-term ...
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Microbe Metabolism Harnessed to Produce Fuel | »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Microbes such as the yeast we commonly use in baking bread and fermenting beer are now being engineered to produce the next generation of biofuels ...
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'Green goo' biofuel gets a boost »
Posted by: Xaos 3 months ago in Science & Technology
Three years ago many would have dismissed the notion that a significant supply of the world's automotive fuel could come from algae. But today ...
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Air New Zealand tests biofuel Boeing »
Posted by: jeremytoday 10 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Air New Zealand, along with Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Honeywell, retooled one of the four Rolls-Royce RB211 engines on a Boeing 747-400 to run on an ...
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The White House - Press Office - President Obama Announces Steps to Support Sustainable Energy Options »
Posted by: Change09 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
THE WHITE HOUSE
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Office of the Press Secretary
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May 5, 2009
President Obama Announces Steps to Support Sustainable Energy Options,
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Future Car of Tomorrow »
Posted by: greentech 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
The future car of tomorrow is discussed as it may run on hydrogen, electric, diesel, biofuels or nuclear power and will require an infrastructure, computers ...
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Palm Oil | Deforestation Watch - Huge capacity for biofuels »
Posted by: joolyj 4 months, 1 week ago in News
he current federal Renewable Fuel Standard requires the use of 36 million gallons of biofuels, including at least 21 billion gallons of advanced biofuels by ...
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New Large-Scale Strategy for Global Warming and Environment: Alternative Solution for Carbon Emissions, Toxic Contaminants... »
Posted by: waves 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
New large-scale strategy addresses both global warming and environmental problems (carbon emission, renewable energy, nonrenewable resource conservation, toxic chemicals and contaminants, packaging and recycling, hybrid ...
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