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Sweet sorghum is grown in the U.S. for cooking and livestock feed. But the tall plant also might help at the gas pump.
made popular May 14 2008
A cleanliness freak that I am, I just couldn’t miss this conceptual futuristic eco-friendly vacuum cleaner christened as BacVac. I love to keep my den spotless clean...
made popular May 13 2008
The antidote to escalating price of gasoline lies in a fuel that can be made from the amber waves of grain growing in America’s heartland. Called ethanol, it is...
made popular May 9 2008
Contradicting his own brand standing, Cadillac boss Jim Taylor, has plans to take the wraps off a chopper that doesn’t get its juice from gas but from ethanol. A...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Washington
Just months ago, ethanol was the Holy Grail to energy independence and a “green fuel” that would help nudge the country away from climate changing fossil...
made popular May 6 2008
AP, Washington
Senate Republicans on Monday asked environmental regulators to use their power to halt the country’s ethanol output expansion plans amid rising food prices.
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Washington
Senate Republicans want the Environmental Protection Agency to consider waiving the country’s ethanol production mandate amid rising food prices.
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Washington
Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the federal government might need to rethink its support for corn ethanol because of rising food prices, a stance similar to...
made popular May 4 2008
Debate from two opposing perspectives on the value or harm of corn ethanol. You be the judge!
made popular May 3 2008
AP, Jefferson City
About 20 past or present Missouri officials have received more than $400,000 in tax credits for investing in alternative fuels such as ethanol or biodiesel. But many of...
made popular May 2 2008
AP, Washington
General Motors Corp. said Thursday it has taken an ownership stake in a renewable energy company that is working to develop ethanol from wood chips, waste paper sludge...
made popular May 1 2008
Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during...
made popular May 1 2008
AP, Caracas
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. push to boost ethanol production during a world food crisis is a “crime.”
made popular Apr 27 2008
Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is...
made popular Apr 25 2008
# With the world food prices rising over 45% in the last nine months, world is heading towards commodity crises never heard of before.
# Among the major factors -...
made popular Apr 10 2008
The world’s economy is acquiring a new energy addiction: biofuels. Crop-based fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are quietly becoming a crucial component of the...
made popular Mar 26 2008
In the 2006 State of the Union address alongside his favorite portent of a hydrogen future, President Bush pledged additional research for “cutting-edge methods...
made popular Mar 26 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
A team from Brazil’s Labor Ministry found “degrading” living conditions for 133 sugarcane workers employed by an ethanol company whose investors...
made popular Mar 10 2008
The world is constantly trying to make progress in terms of harnessing energy from alternate sources of energy. While biofuel is in no way the long term answer to the...
made popular Mar 7 2008
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Food is one of the most essential commodities required for human existence, the thought of the lack of which makes us shiver. We have always, in the school textbooks...
made popular Apr 10 2008
A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.
made popular Jan 17 2008
For the odds we finally have a car that could potentially dethrone the Veyron or the Bristol as the fastest car and for us we have a new car with a hefty price tag. The...
made popular Nov 27 2007
There are lots of ways to combat the problem of global warming, atleast theoretically speaking. Something as micro as algae is one such contributor to the solution to...
made popular Nov 22 2007
With lot many car manufacturing companies going ga ga with enviro-friendly alternates, the fever would soon take a toll of conventional F1 racing cars. Racing cars...
made popular Nov 1 2007
Converting food crops to fuel is a crime against humanity. This is what the United Nations Special Rapporteur mentioned at a meeting recently. When there are millions...
made popular Oct 27 2007
We choose Oil palm plantations instead of orangutans, quick bucks over later losses. Even as their limited habitats are destroyed, they cling precariously to life. From...
made popular Sep 4 2007
With the demands for sugarcane increasing, being a major part of it getting used in making bio-fuels to meet environmental concerns across the world, the need for more...
made popular May 26 2007
The concept cars and the gadgets give a person and onlookers a new high as to what a simple imagination and hard work can do.
Let me have the honor of introducing to...
made popular Jan 31 2007
The huge profits of bio-fuel production are luring investors and local governments to increase the industry in leaps and bounds across the world. Chinese corn...
made popular Jan 1 2007
Recycle the lees! Yes, Japan has come up with the innovative idea of recycling the solid and liquid dregs produced from shochu – a distilled Japanese liquor – and...
made popular Dec 28 2006
Fill your flex-fuel vehicle with the low-emission, renewable bio-fuel VE85(TM) — a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline — immediately from...
made popular Dec 14 2006
A new boiler plant at Övik Energi will be powered with biofuel! And the supply for this large power plant will be made by Aker Kvaerner, which has been awarded $50m for...
made popular Nov 29 2006
Making ethanol form corn and sugarcane is no more a new concept! With the demands for bio-fuel soaring, to shift a bit of the increasing burden from ethanol, a Japanese...
made popular Sep 16 2006
The genome of the poplar tree — black cottonwood genome – has been sequenced for the first time completely. And this work on the Populus trichocarpa will...
made popular Sep 16 2006
Growing Debby in Atlantic May Become First Hurricane!
Caribbean Sea Temperatures rising! Threatening corals
Asian Mangroves may be saved by New Shrimp Farm...
made popular Aug 24 2006
With the boom of alternative energy production across the world, amidst increasing concerns for global warming, more and more companies are shifting their business to...
made popular Jul 28 2006
It cannot be denied that the greenhouse gas emissions have increases manifold along with the fears of its after-effects. To add to this, the oil prices are also soaring...
made popular Jun 30 2006
The distilled French and Italian wine will be fueling the vehicles in Europe! Yes, the vineyards this summer, has a surplus production. And, inspite of wasting them,...
made popular Jun 20 2006
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