Shell in Hawaiian algae biofuel pilot
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Sees big future in green scum Oil giant Shell announced yesterday that it will build a pilot plant in Hawaii to make biofuel out of algae grown in seawater ponds.â¦
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The company develops a new process for creating ethanol from biomass and will manufacture cars that can run on 100 percent ethanol. In Autopia.
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Not green, not clever Biofuels are not the magic answer to oil shortages or global warming.â¦
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Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum--I'm the million dollar microbe
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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Si tratterebbe di dipendenti della Shell a Soku
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Stari Grad bay on the island of Hvar is one of the most charming resorts in Croatia. But beneath the quiet surface of the southern Adriatic an aggressive tropical algae is threatening the sea's eco-system.
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By Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent  WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
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The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.
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Researchers at MIT say a genetically modified yeast can increase ethanol production by 50 percent. Technology may be the key to replacing fossil fuels, but let's not be blinded by science. In Autopia.
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Boffins in mutant albino batrachian IP brouhaha Japanese boffins have used artificial insemination to breed mutant frogs with transparent skin. The scientists reckon this will make biological research - not to mention school biology lessons - signifcantly less messy and traumatic, as it will no longer be necessary to cut the slime-filled creatures up in order to examine their innards.â¦
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Better Biodiesel, a Utah-based producer of biodiesel fuel, says it plans to buy GeoAlgae Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
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A small California company is planning to mix up to 80 tons of iron particles into the Pacific Ocean 350 miles west of the Galapagos islands to see whether it can make a splash in the markets where people seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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With several panels dedicated to biofuels at the AAAS annual meeting, the sustainability of growing a large percentage of our transportation fuel is emerging as a major theme of the conference. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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Scientists said on Monday they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away. Materials company Pvaxx Research &amp; Development, at
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Making ethanol from corn is expensive. Better biofuels are years away from the gas tank. But do we really have any alternative?
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A Georgia entrepreneur is working with a team of government scientists who believe that the solution to fossil-fuel pollution may be found in a nutrient-rich charcoal fertilizer discovered by South American natives centuries before Columbus set sail. By John Gartner.