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Monterey Coastline To Get Innovative Ecoresort
Monterey CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Security National Guaranty (SNG) has announced plans to develop the greenest ecoresort in the world on the Monterey Peninsula.
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New Generation Biofuels Forms Alliance With First Florida Biofuels
Lake Mary FL (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with First Florida Biofuels to pursue development of potential biofuel projects in Florida. Under the MOU, New Generation Biofuels will provide technology and know-how for the development of a potential joint venture, with the purpose of exploring and pursuing biofuel projects in Florida.
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Biofuel For Half A Euro A Litre
Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over 0.50 euro cents a litre, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right way, states the research published in this month's issue of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining.
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SAIC Awarded DARPA Contract
Mclean VA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Science Applications International has announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to help develop an affordable alternative to petroleum-derived jet fuel (JP-8) from agricultural and aquacultural feedstock materials.
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South Korea to boost green energy
Seoul (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 - South Korea expects to increase alternative energy spending by 52 percent in 2010, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
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US And China In Race To The Top Of Global Wind Industry
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Global wind energy capacity grew by 28.8% last year, even higher than the average over the past decade, to reach total global installations of more than 120,800 MW (120.8 GW) at the end of 2008. Over 27,000 MW (27 GW) of new wind power generation capacity came online in 2008, 36% more than in 2007.
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Wind Now Leads EU Power Sector
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - In 2008, more wind power was installed in the EU than any other electricity generating technology.
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A Better Way To Pinpoint Underground Oil Reserves
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 02, 2009 - Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.
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How Obama Will Influence Energy Stocks
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 02, 2009 - One might think the United States would be charging hard on energy security as well as border and other kinds of security in its Global War on Terror campaign. Not so.
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Siemens to invest $346 million in India
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 2, 2009 - German industrial giant Siemens Tuesday announced plans to invest $346 million in India over the next three years, about a third of which will go to making wind turbines.
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Water Lilies Inspire Scientists To Create Large-Scale Graphene Films
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 02, 2009 - In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. But in order to construct new materials and devices, researchers first need to understand how these tiny units interact with each other.
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Bid to unify German environmental law fails: minister
Berlin (AFP) Feb 1, 2009 - Germany's environment minister declared as dead in the water Sunday a mammoth project almost two decades in the making aimed at hacking through the mass of red tape that is German environmental legislation.
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Vattenfall has high hopes for wave power
Stockholm, Sweden (UPI) Feb 1, 2009 - Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says ocean energy -- such as wave power, salinity power or power from sea currents -- will become commercially viable as early as 2020.
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Walker’s World: Russia’s ‘fracked’ future
Moscow (UPI) Feb 1, 2009 - For most of the past decade, Russian leaders and their top officials and businessmen have believed that their huge reserves of oil and gas would guarantee them prosperity and global influence for decades to come. But suddenly some cracks are emerging in that confidence.
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Analysis: Transneft changes with the times
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 - The global economic downturn is now hitting energy companies, for whom 2008 will remain the golden year of record-high oil prices, as they are fetching $100 per barrel less than they were in July.
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Bioenergy research funding available
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 - Up to $25 million in funding for research and development of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products is available from two U.S. departments.