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VIASPACE Provides Giant King(TM) Grass Business Update: Part One--Europe and the Americas

2012-03-07 07:30:00

IRVINE, Calif., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VGREF) today provided a business update on recent bioenergy and pellet activities and opportunities for its proprietary dedicated energy crop Giant King(TM) grass in Europe and the Americas. The company plans to issue a similar update on Asia in the near future. CEO Dr. Carl Kukkonen reports "VIASPACE has been very active in the...

Butamax Expands Robust Isobutanol Patent Portfolio

2012-03-06 06:49:00

WILMINGTON, Del., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels, LLC, the biobutanol technology leader, today announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Butamax Patent Number 8,129,162 which provides Butamax with optimal key capability for the production of isobutanol from renewable resources. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120209/MM50763LOGO ) This latest patent was issued from a series of applications covering modified...

Future Of Energy Source Is Seaweed, Researchers Say

2012-03-05 13:30:46

Researchers are looking to the sea in their search for safer and cleaner future alternative energy sources. The team from various institutions and organizations is developing methods for growing and harvesting seaweed as a source of renewable energy. Professor Avigdor Abelson of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology believes that not only can the macroalgae be grown unobtrusively along coastlines, they can also help clear the water of excessive nutrients. Pollution caused by...

Global Leaders in Advanced Biofuels Industry Urge Congressional Leaders to Extend Critical Tax Provisions

2012-02-29 10:00:00

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders of America's rapidly emerging advanced biofuels industry urged congressional leaders today to extend two tax provisions that are critical to the commercialization of new biofuel production technologies. In a letter addressed to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees, more than 30 advanced biofuel company CEOs pressed for a five year extension of the Cellulosic Biofuels...

Giant King Grass and Pellets Tested By Biomass Energy Lab, a New Joint Venture of Timber Products Inspection Inc. and Petersen Control Union

2012-02-23 07:30:00

IRVINE, Calif. and CONYERS, Ga., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a clean energy company growing Giant King(TM) Grass as a low-carbon, renewable biomass dedicated energy crop, and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VGREF) and Timber Products Inspection Inc. announced that Giant King Grass and pellets made from Giant King Grass were among the first biomass samples tested by Biomass Energy Lab in Conyers, Georgia. The...

VIASPACE Director Purchases Additional 3 Million Shares of Common Stock on the Open Market, VIASPACE CEO Presents at Energy, Utility and Environment Conference

2012-02-21 07:30:00

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a clean energy company growing Giant King(TM) Grass as a low-carbon, renewable biomass dedicated energy crop, and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VGREF), today announced that an invited presentation on Giant King Grass was made by CEO Carl Kukkonen at the 15th annual Energy, Utility and Environment Conference held January 30 - February 1, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona...

Primus Green Energy Produces High-Octane, Renewable, Drop-In Gasoline

2012-02-16 12:13:00

HILLSBOROUGH, N.J., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Primus Green Energy Ltd., the developer of renewable gasoline based in Hillsborough, N.J., has announced that it has produced its first sample of renewable drop-in gasoline through a proprietary combination of biomass conversion technologies that transforms herbaceous and woody biomass, in conjunction with natural gas, into high-octane gasoline. The gasoline produced from the Primus technology, which is virtually indistinguishable...

BP Biofuels Says the Technology Works, Rejects "Pixie Dust" Headlines

2012-02-15 09:29:00

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the third episode of Biofuel STAT, released today, BP Biofuels North America President Sue Ellerbusch rejects recent headlines describing the industry as "pixie dust" by declaring "the technology works." "There are lots of stories because it makes good media to talk about that it's pixie dust or fairies out there and people have been working on this for ten years and are we going to have it," Ellerbusch says. "I am here to tell...

Researchers Map Genomes Of Potential Biofuel Source

2012-02-11 05:01:59

A team of University of Georgia researchers report that they have mapped the genomes of two originator cells of a type of perennial grass said to be a natural candidate for biomass farming -- work that reportedly could lead to improved ethanol and/or bioenergy crops. Genetics and plant biology professor Andrew Paterson and postdoctoral research associate Changsoo Kim identified a set of approximately 600 bits of Miscanthus x giganteus DNA that could potentially serve as diagnostic tools,...

Fuel From Market Waste

2012-02-09 23:33:21

Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries – to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers have developed a new facility that ferments this waste to make methane, which can be used to power vehicles. Drivers who fill up with natural gas instead of gasoline or diesel spend less on fuel and are more environmentally friendly. Natural gas is kinder on the wallet, and the exhaust emissions it...