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TORONTO, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The MaRS Cleantech Fund is pleased to announce the completion of a venture deal with Woodland Biofuels, positioned to become North America's lowest-cost producer of ethanol. "The MaRS Cleantech fund seeks technologies with the potential to revolutionize the energy sector," says Tom Rand, co-managing director of the Fund. "Woodland Biofuels is on track to become the first company to profitably make renewable fuels from non-food sources...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioPower Operations Corporation (OTCQB: BOPO) ("BioPower") announces Global Energy Crops Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of BioPower, on November 27 has signed a global licensing agreement with Alternative Green Today, LLC. ("AGT"), a developer of patented technology that can produce fertilizer and ethanol from the wastes of poultry, hogs and human solid waste. This patented process takes one step to convert the wastes and...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online One prominent travel organization is calling on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to temporarily halt the sale of E15 gasoline, citing fears that the new ethanol-based fuel blend could damage motor vehicles. In a statement released Friday, the American Automobile Association (AAA) warned that use of the recently approved gasoline, which can contain as much as 15 percent ethanol, could result in "a strong likelihood of...

Cell Press Fly larvae fed on alcohol-spiked food for a period of days grow dependent on those spirits for learning. The findings, reported in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on November 29th, show how overuse of alcohol can produce lasting changes in the brain, even after alcohol abuse stops. The report also provides evidence that the very human experience of alcoholism can be explored in part with studies conducted in fruit flies and other animals, the researchers say....

JUPITER, Fla., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyadic International, Inc. (OTC Pink: DYAI), a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzymes and other proteins for the bioenergy, bio-based chemicals, biopharmaceutical and industrial enzyme industries, announced today that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 8,304,212 entitled "Methods and compositions for degradation of lignocellulosic material" by the United States Patent and...

/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES/ VANCOUVER, Nov. 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("LEC" or the "Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, is pleased to announce that it has engaged Canaccord Genuity Corp. ("Canaccord" or the "Agent") to sell, on a commercially reasonable efforts basis, up to 26,666,667 Units (the "Units") of the Company...

VANCOUVER, Nov. 9, 2012 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("LEC" or the "Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, is pleased to announce that, further to its previous announcement on October 15, 2012, it has completed the purchase of an additional 88,000,000 ordinary shares of Australian Renewable Fuels Limited (ASX: ARW), the largest biodiesel producer in Australia for an aggregate purchase price of CAD$1,100,000...

ALBANY, New York, November 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Biofuel Enzymes Market- Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast, 2012 - 2018 [http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/biofuel-enzymes-market.html ]," the global biofuel enzymes demand was worth USD 1,021.9 million in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 1,653.1 million in 2018,...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Air Resources Board has told the American Motorcyclist Association that even if it approves the sale of the new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend in California, the blend wouldn't appear in the market for several years. CARB made the comment in response to a letter from AMA Vice President for Government Relations Wayne Allard, who expressed concern about potential misfueling of E15 into motorcycles and all-terrain...

University of California - Berkeley Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels now used in transportation, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have discovered. Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel fuel from the products of a bacterial...