California startup NexSteppe presents a new brand of fast-growing, drought-resistant sorghum, bred for optimal energy production, designed as a greener alternative to corn for ethanol fuels and biomass boilers.
Vancouver, Canada-based Arcade Station has become the first filling station in the region to sell E85 fuel – an ethanol-petrol blend comprising 85% .ethanol. The site now sells regular and diesel fuel in addition to E85.
With the past decade showing various economic activities like government biofuel incentives, soaring oil prices, green and clean venture investments, Middle East turmoil, and emerging technologies, the green sentiment has now become a global concern for all. All such factors are contributing to the critical launch of the global biofuel market, once and forever.
Millions of African Americans and Latinos in the United States live near the 143 oil refineries operating in 32 states across the United States. Every day, as refinery smoke stacks spew toxin-filled clouds into the air, communities living near refineries breathe it in. They have no other choice but to breathe it because there is no other air around them.
The five-member Board of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has unanimously voted to approve 10-year energy efficiency targets that will vault America’s largest municipally-owned utility, which provides service to around 3.9 million people, to national leadership in energy efficiency.
It’s a sales pitch that should appeal to all farmers: give us your agricultural waste and we’ll turn it into fuel and money. Crop residues, animal waste, vegetable scraps… you name it, it can be fed into machines that convert it into bio-energy, but until now it’s not been commercially viable.
A PPIC report says “A large majority of Californians (76 percent) favor this requirement [including transportation fuels in cap and trade], but support declines to 39 percent if the result is higher prices at the pump.”
Electric vehicles have been around longer than gasoline burners, but it has taken over a century for battery technology to make EVs a viable alternative to internal combustion engines. And as the public slowly begins to embrace the technology, social media analysts recently looked at the online chatter to see which e-cars are getting the most attention.
Voluntary organisation Save Guwahati Build Guwahati (SGBG) has called for massive use of methanol as a fuel alternative.
During the pre-budget meeting it had with the Chief Minister on August 4, SGBG suggested that methanol from all places of the State should be carried through the 14-inch pipeline which was laid to carry two million tonnes of crude oil from Assam per annum, saying it should be used to carry 50 million tonnes of methanol per year.
Mexico’s Congress have given final approval to a far-reaching energy reform bill that will open up the oil and gas sector to private investment for the first time in 75 years. The historic opening, a central piece of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s agenda, will end the monopoly of state-owned oil company Pemex.
