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Texas company to build 3 biofuel plants in Miss.

Submitted on Tags August 28th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: AP via Yahoo! Finance

Texas-based KiOR, a company with plans to produce a crude oil substitute from wood chips and other biomass, will locate its first three facilities in Mississippi.

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EU biofuel directive discriminatory

Submitted on Tags May 11th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: Business Times

A NEW European research report has claimed that the European Union’s (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) discriminates against non-EU producers of biofuels such as palm oil. Dr Gernot Pehnelt, director of the independent research institute GlobEcon, did the study with Christoph Vietze. The study has been released to the European Parliament. He said RED is an example of import protectionism via …

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Scientists look to tobacco as possible biofuel

Submitted on Tags April 26th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: Asbury Park Press

RICHMOND, VA. — With the help of science, an age-old cash crop long the focus of public health debates could be used to help solve the nation’s energy crisis by genetically modifying the tobacco leaf for use as a biofuel.

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Forget gas, batteries — pee is new power source

Submitted on Tags July 7th, 2009 by Tina Ngo
Posted in Tags Clean Energy
Original news source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31805166/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

Urine-powered cars, homes and personal electronic devices could be available in six months with new technology developed by scientists from Ohio University

Read the full article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31805166/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

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