London (AFP) April 15, 2008 - Global miner Anglo American predicted on Tuesday that the booming Asian economies of China and India would drive strong demand growth for most commodities over the next ten years.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Biotechnology's contributions to a cleaner, more sustainable world will be highlighted during the 2008 BIO International Convention. Hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the global event for biotechnology will take place June 17-20, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Brazil is the 10th largest energy consumer in the world and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere, behind the United States and Canada. Total primary energy consumption in Brazil has increased significantly in recent years. In addition, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its total energy production, particularly oil, over the past decade. Increasing domestic oil production has been a long-term goal of the Brazilian government.
London (AFP) April 15, 2008 - British energy group BP said Tuesday that an unnamed Chinese state investment fund had bought almost 1.0-percent of the group's shares, confirming an earlier media report.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful forms, such as electricity, using wind turbines. In windmills, wind energy is directly used to crush grain or to pump water. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatts.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity: They made the equivalent of wires that carried and bent this form of light, also known as terahertz radiation, which is the last unexploited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Salem MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Groom Energy Solutions today announced the availability of its GES Hybrid parking garage lighting fixture, a patent-pending retrofit kit that reduces by 50 percent, the energy consumed by typical parking garage lighting fixtures. The unique design quickly retrofits into existing high intensity discharge based parking garage fixtures converting them to more energy efficient fluorescent-based lamps.
Sioux Falls SD (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - An agreement between POET and the City of Sioux Falls will allow methane generated from the Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill to provide energy for an ethanol production facility near Chancellor, S.D. Replacing a portion of the natural gas at POET Biorefining - Chancellor's with methane from the landfill will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operating costs for the ethanol plant while generating revenue for the landfill.
Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of green gasoline, a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry and Sustainability, Energy and Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee George Huber of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) and his graduate students Torren Carlson and Tushar Vispute announced the first direct conversion of plant cellulose into gasoline components.
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - A state of the art waste to ethanol process was recently introduced by Diversified Ethanol Corporation, a clean tech provider. Diversified Ethanol designs and builds small scale, modular ethanol plants that utilize existing waste as feedstocks which can be converted into ethanol.
Abuja (AFP) April 15, 2008 - China and India have agreed to build oil refineries in Nigeria rather than buying crude from it for export, a Nigerian official said on Tuesday.
Moscow, April 15, 2008 - Iran has stepped up its diplomatic activity, suggesting that its conflict with the West over its nuclear program is losing momentum, and the use of military force to settle it is no longer the only option.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Verenium has announced that it has achieved a key development milestone with its demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Jennings, Louisiana with commencement of the transition to startup phase. With this phase of the project now effective, the site has been electronically energized and the turnover of individual systems to start-up and operating teams has begun so that the functional capabilities of each system can be tested.
Golden CO (SPX) Apr 14, 2008 - ConocoPhillips and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), headquartered in Golden, CO, have announced a strategic research alliance with Iowa State University (ISU) to identify promising cellulosic biomass conversion technologies to further diversify the nation's energy sources and help meet growing energy demand.
Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Apr 14, 2008 - Dynamotive Energy Systems and its subsidiary Dynamotive Latinoamericana S.A., are pleased to announce the execution of contracts for the provision of biomass for two of its proposed plants in the Province of Corrientes in Argentina. The Company further disclosed that it has identified, and has been offered, a site for the project within the Municipality of Virasoro. Negotiations in regard to the site are progressing and are expected to be completed in the near term.
London (AFP) April 14, 2008 - Plans to make business pay for carbon permits previously distributed for free in the European Union's carbon-trading system could hurt the bloc's energy industry, the chief executive of Shell said in an interview released Monday.
