Energy

Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are already used completely (e.g. biomass originating from pr

Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are already used completely (e.g. biomass originating from pro ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 8 2009 - 11:11am

Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal

Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal Buzz Up Share Copenhagen, Dec 9 (IANS) The Dec 7-18 climate summit was thrown into turmoil on its second evening as developing countries came together to condemn a Danish draft of the final Copenhagen declarat ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 9 2009 - 12:32am

Groundbreaking Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Moves Toward Commercialization

GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash.- (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 13 2009 - 9:22pm

'Clean-Burning' E85 Generates More Ozone Than Gasoline

Often promoted as a 'clean-burning' alternative to gasoline that could help break our oil addiction, ethanol would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, especially in winter, according to research presented today at the American Geophysi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2011 - 8:43pm

Security and Energy: China and Central Asia

The government of China has funded and opened a pipeline going from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang province in China.  The pipeline is set to provide, "40 billion cubic meters of gas for 30 years once the line reaches full capacity." This is interesti ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 14 2009 - 7:25pm

Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered

Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered Monday, 12/21/09- Rachel Ward Options ListenMP3PodcastRSSContact UsTapes & Transcripts(Host) Climate change was the big topic in Copenhagen last week. Congress is also considering a proposal to set limits on ca ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 24 2009 - 10:51pm

Algae: The New Oil

Algae: The New Oil It's renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2 Oil prices are rising again, and they’re going to continue to do so. We’re already seeing it at the gas pump. The foreign oil and gas we have depended on for generati ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 25 2009 - 10:57am

How To Make Tobacco Popular Again- Turn It Into Biofuel

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s.   Sustainable, activists said, because they refused to do math.   It was only when Republicans mandated and subsidized biofuels in 2005 that environmentalists realized there must be something very wrong with them an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2009 - 5:35pm

Kingfisher in deals for bio jet fuel R&D If the plan succeeds, the carrier can cut reliance on costly aviation fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Mumbai: India’s second largest airline by passengers carried, Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, has signed an agreement with three international firms to explore development and production of an alternative jet fuel to reduce carbon emissions. Power backup: Kingfis ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 1 2010 - 9:27pm

Bio-diesel Brazil experience.

Bio-diesel is an alternative fuel derived from either Soy or Jatropha, and it is big in Brazil. By 2012, the Brazilian government will mandate an 8% blend of bio-diesel. The prospect of this increased demand for bio-diesel is causing a large ramp up in th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 6 2010 - 9:55am