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Greenhouse Gas Services Acquires StormFisher

February 9th, 2010 No Comments

Virgina-based Greenhouse Gas Services, a company that invests in and develops projects that reduce greenhouse gases, announced today that it has acquired Toronto-based StormFisher Ltd. StormFisher operates projects in North America focusing on turning food or agricultural byproducts into natural gas and electricity. As part of the deal, StormFisher investor Denham Capital is now an [...]

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Waste Management & Harvest Power to Partner

January 25th, 2010 No Comments

Waste Management continues to build its reputation in the development of alternative energy with the announcement that they have partnered with Harvest Power to expand next generation organics recycling facilities across the United States and Canada. Waste Management now joins founding investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Munich Venture Partners, as investors in the [...]

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Energy From Cows Could Reduce Emissions

December 15th, 2009 No Comments

Producing more energy from cow manure could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At the climate summit in Copenhagen, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate adoption of innovative manure to energy projects on American dairy farms.
“This historic agreement, the first of its kind, will help us achieve the [...]

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BIO Pacific Rim Summit: Biofuels from Coal and Sunlight

November 11th, 2009 No Comments

On day two of BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, attendees heard some fascinating presentations at the plenary lunch session, appropriately titled “Novel Applications of Industrial Biotechnology.”
Phil Hendry from CSIRO in Australia spoke about the opportunities for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas benefits offered by coal bed methane production (coal seam gas, [...]

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Company to Turn Natural Gas & Biogas into Clean Diesel

October 21st, 2009 No Comments

A Nevada company is looking to turn natural gas and biogas, such as methane from garbage dumps, into a clean form of diesel.
Advanced Refining Concepts, LLC is building a 100,000-gallon-a-day plant 10 miles east of Reno in Northern Nevada that will use a proprietary pollution-free process, called ClearRefining™, that liquefies natural gas and other biogases [...]

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Company Announces Breakthrough in CO2-to-Fuel Technology

October 8th, 2009 No Comments

A California-based company has filed a patent for technology that could turn carbon dioxide into fuel.
According to a press release, Carbon Sciences, developer of a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other portable fuels, today announced the filing of a patent application for a highly efficient nano-scale CO2 to fuel [...]

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Register Now For Advanced BioEnergy 2009

September 24th, 2009 No Comments

The first annual Advanced BioEnergy 2009 Conference & Trade Show is set to happen in Sacramento, California on November 11-13, 2009. The focal point of the event is to explore emerging policies, business strategies and technologies driving the bioenergy industry. In addition, the conference will promote cooperation between this advanced bioenergy industry and traditional energy [...]

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Weekly Blog Wrap Up

September 18th, 2009 No Comments

There’s a lot going on in the blogosphere about the world of biofuels this week. Yesterday, the World Wildlife Fund released a report,which according to NCTechnews.com,
“concludes that industrial biotechnology can provide dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and provide strong progress toward a green and sustainable economy. WWF calls for increased political backing for [...]

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Missouri Could Be Wind, Biofuels & Biomass Center

July 8th, 2009 No Comments

A new report says Missouri could become a real center for wind power, biomass, biogas and other sources of renewable energy, while creating thousands of jobs and more tax revenues, especially in rural areas of the state.
This story in the St. Louis Business Journal says the Natural Resources Defense Council report points out that Missourians [...]

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San Jose First to Develop Organics-to-Energy Biogas Plant

June 18th, 2009 No Comments

San Jose wants to become energy independent but they’re not going about it in a traditional fashion. Instead, they hope to be the first city in the U.S. to generate its electricity through an organics-to-energy biogas facility. Should this plant come to fruition, it would be sited on a 40-acre site near the San Jose/Santa [...]

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