Leaf-Cutter Ants Lend A Hand In Biofuel Research
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online As gardeners around the United States tend to their flowers or herbs, leaf-cutter ants are actively cultivating gardens of fungus and bacteria as a source of food and shelter. According...
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Wood borer makes its own enzyme, which could thrive in industrial setting Researchers from the United Kingdom, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and the University of Kentucky have recently published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme from a marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata, commonly known as the gribble. Gribbles are biologically intriguing because they exhibit a relatively unique ability to produce their own enzymes...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. ENERGY INITIATIVES CORPORATION INC. (OTCPink:USEI) is pleased to announce today that USEI and Promethean Biofuels (an EPA approved biodiesel operating for the last 6 years) have signed a biodiesel production agreement whereby the companies will work together to bring this facility to its maximum capacity beginning in the next couple weeks. Promethean has the capacity to produce 2.1 to 3 million gallons of biodiesel per year...
DUBLIN, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/p4cn9v/site_potentials) has announced the addition of the "Site Potentials for Biomass Power Plants in Poland (Analyst Version)" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/p4cn9v/site_potentials ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) The Polish market for renewable energies has reached a turning point. The new...
Diesel Technology Forum to Join EPA, Energy and Congressional Leaders in Capitol Hill Forum Showcasing Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Technologies WASHINGTON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The role of advanced diesel technology and biodiesel as energy efficient technology and a renewable energy source will be highlighted on June 12 at the 16th annual Congressional Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency EXPO + Forum on Capitol Hill. (Logo:...
Strategic collaboration to convert lignocellulosic feedstocks into cost competitive sugars HELSINKI, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UPM (OMX: UPM1V) and Renmatix, Inc., have entered into a non-exclusive joint development agreement (JDA) in the area of biochemicals. Under terms of the JDA both companies will further develop Renmatix's water-based Plantrose(TM) process to convert woody biomass into low-cost sugar intermediates for subsequent downstream processing into biochemicals....
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. ENERGY INITIATIVES CORPORATION INC (OTCPink: USEI) is pleased to announce today that USEI has received a patent assignment of a proprietary biofuel patent entitled GREEN RECYCLED DERIVED BIOFUEL (RDBF). This patented fuel was designed for automotive, aviation and stationary electrical power applications and this fuel was extensively tested by a university laboratory and determined that the fuel preformed splendidly. This fuel...
American Chemical Society Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has concluded. The viewpoint article on availability of this new toolkit — for engineering biological factories that can produce new biofuels, crops and chemicals, among others — appears in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. Kevin Munnelly, CEO of synthetic biology start-up...
President and CEO, Mark Emalfarb, to Provide Update on Dyadic's C1 Enzyme Technology and Progress Towards Producing Cellulosic Sugars for Fuels and Chemicals JUPITER, Fla., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTC Pink: DYAI), announced today that its President and CEO, Mark Emalfarb, will present at the World Biotechnology Congress 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts and the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotech in Montreal, Canada. (Logo:...
VANCOUVER, May 27, 2013 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("LEC" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sectors, today announced that it has agreed to acquire an additional 2.67 million shares of Territory Biofuels Limited ("TBF") for A$1 million under a TBF private placement offering transaction, which also provides for the further issuance of approximately 0.25 million shares of TBF to other shareholders of...
SAN MARINO, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VG Energy, an agricultural biotech company, announces today a strategic alliance with DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials using LipidMax to increase the corn oil yield. VG Energy is a majority owned subsidiary of VG Life Sciences, Inc. (OTC Pink: VGLS). VG Energy's exclusively licensed compound LipidMax selectively inhibits certain metabolic pathways to increase the oil yield in plants, possessing a wide variety of...
