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A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions. Early suggestions that such a forest biofuel industry would be greenhouse “neutral” or even reduce greenhouse emissions “are based on erroneous assumptions,” a group of international researchers said in...
WORCESTER, Mass., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ThermoEnergy Corporation (OTCBB: TMEN) (www.thermoenergy.com) announced that the company has signed a term sheet to form a joint venture with Logica Eko (www.logicaeko.com), a green solutions company in Colombia, South America. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/CL50460LOGO ) Logica Eko owns four landfills in Colombia and is working with the Colombian oil palm association to reduce the environmental...
Australian science is helping to solve one of China’s biggest and smelliest problems – what to do with the waste produced by its 700 million pigs. Working with Chinese scientists and technology firm HLM Asia Ltd, Australia’s CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) has helped develop novel digester technology to help deal with the estimated 1.4 million tons of manure and 7mt of urine produced by the burgeoning Chinese pork industry annually....
CHENGDU, China, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- MiracleGen, a registered trademark of Miracle Power Systems Inc. (www.miraclepower.cn), announces that it is introducing its CHPs (Combined Heat & Power, or Cogeneration) to Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland and the UK. Three years ago, MiracleGen got its first order of natural gas CHPs from the Czech Republic. Now, MiracleGen is exporting its CHPs to more than 30 countries...
HOUSTON, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Algae Farm (USA), Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALGF), announces that it has completed development of its proprietary Algapond indoor algae production system. This unique system is modular and scalable and can be used indoors anywhere where water and power are available. Algapond utilizes customized LED lighting, proprietary water movement and contamination features in both 200 and 400 gallon Algapond versions. "ALGF's technology and processes,...
VANCOUVER, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("Lignol" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, today announced its financial results for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2012 (all figures in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted). Q3 FY12 Highlights: -- Awarded up to $2.2 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada...
The pregnant ichthyosaur female from Holzmaden (Germany) that perished 182 million years ago puzzled researchers for quite some time: The skeleton of the extinct marine reptile is almost immaculately preserved and the fossilized bones of the mother animal lie largely in their anatomical position. The bones of the ichthyosaur embryos, however, are a different story: For the most part, they lie scattered outside the body of the mother. Such peculiar bone arrangements are repeatedly found in...
WALTHAM, Mass., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tecogen Inc. today announced that the Medina, New York waste water treatment plant will install a Tecogen 60 kW combined heat and power (CHP) system to help produce greater energy efficiency. The site has been awarded a Green Infrastructure Grant, administered by the Environmental Facilities Corp., which is helping fund efficiency upgrades such as the addition of this Tecogen cogeneration system. The Medina waste water treatment plant...
Welsh and American researchers have completed the first, most comprehensive high-resolution genetic map of the energy crop miscanthus. The researchers collaborated to create this image and published the results in the current edition of the online journal PLoS One. Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. from Thousand Oaks, California worked hand-in-hand with the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University in Wales. As the IBERS team collected a...
New biotechnological and chemical methods will facilitate efficient production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable natural resources. The Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (CoE) in White Biotechnology – Green Chemistry Research focuses on the research and development of microbial cells, or cell factories, for producing new useful compounds from sugars in plant biomass. These compounds can be used, for example, for manufacturing bioplastics or in medical applications....
