Are top two ethanol firms talking merger? Maybe (1)
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"The first salvo may have been fired this week in a long-awaited shakeout for the U.S. ethanol industry," reports The Forum of Fargo, N.D., in a story based on staff and wire-service reports.Hours after the nation's largest ethanol maker, Poet LLC, said it is "talking with other companies about buyouts," bankrupt Vera Sun Energy said it had received an unsolicited takeover bid. "Neither Poet nor VeraSun will say if the two are negotiating a deal." ...
90-95% Cost Reduction in Algae Production Claimed by Solix Biofuels (1)
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image: Solix Though the first phase of the Solix Biofuels facility outside of Durango, Colorado won’t be up and running for another 12-18 months, the Fort Collins-based company is wasting no time in touting the benefits of its technique for turning algae into biofuel. According to Solix CEO Doug Henston, Solix will be able to cut the cost of growing algae by 90-95%. (Greentech Media) Here’s how they’ll do it:...
Can North America’s largest coal plant convert to biomass? (1)
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My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal-fired generating assets into biomass-burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station – North America’s largest coal plant. The provincial Liberal government has vowed to shut down the last of Ontario’s coal plants by 2014, and biomass conversion is being seriously considered as a way of partially getting there. It’s an ...
The Transition to a Green Economy: A Cleantech Roadmap (1)
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With all this talk about the green economy, it’s nice to know that some people are working on the play-by-play plan to get us there. This road map comes from Scott Clavenna, CEO of Greentech Media. He calls it a “Greentech Market Taxonomy.” It's broken down into five major market segments: Power Technology: generation, storage, transmission and management Transportation: vehicles, fuels, and infrastructure Built Environments: greener buildings, energy efficient technologies Environmental Technology: recycling, remediation, pollution ...
Saving the Planet? (1)
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Willie Soon & Christopher Monckton, climate change sceptics, on temperature levels in Indonesia and the “saving the planet” mantra. Indonesia’s National Agency for Meteorology & Geophysics plays host to the International Symposium on Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System in Jakarta on November 24th-26th 2008. In this article Dr. Willie Soon, geo-scientist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, and Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy ...
$5 Billion in Corn Ethanol Subsidies Should Be Eliminated, Food Before Fuel Urges (1)
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Cargill ethanol facility in Iowa, photo: Steven Roermerman Regular TreeHugger readers will know that most of the posts about corn ethanol on this site are not exactly favorable, neutral at best. Compared to other feedstocks for ethanol, biodiesel, or some of the ‘green crude’ being developed, corn simply isn’t the best choice—not that other feedstocks also don’t have their problems, not by a long shot (palm oil plantations being the oft-us...
US Farmer’s Incomes Now Tied More to Ethanol Than Food, Economist Says (3)
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photo: Mike Slichenmyer Not to belabor the point, but of all sources of renewable energy taking a beating in the current economic storm, biofuels seem to be getting hit full force. Recently the world’s largest ethanol producer, Verasun, filed for bankruptcy and predictions have it that as many as 40 more plants could be shuttered within the next few months. What this means for farmer’s i...
How to Turn Garbage into Biofuel (1)
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Photo of Naples rubbish piles by chrisjohnbeckett Barely a week goes by without news headlines announcing yet another innovative way of making biofuel, something that was lauded as remarkable only at the beginning of the year but has since fallen from grace. Many new biofuel initiatives sound great at the outset but once the mechanics and background information are revealed they seem to be just as harmful to the environment as existing methods of fuel ...
La necesidad insuficiente de la voluntad (1)
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En este mundo, ninguna receta puede garantizarnos el éxito. Pero asegurarnos el fracaso es bastante fácil y podemos hacerlo nosotros mismos, sin ayuda de nadie. Hace unos años atrás leí el libro “El alquimista” de Paulo Coelho. No me gustó para nada. Su filosofía básica puede resumirse en que “cuando una persona desea realmente algo, el Universo entero conspira para que pueda realizar su sueño”. Es, en resumidas cuentas, el “tu puedes”, la visión voluntarista, ...
El top 10 de las cosas para comprar sobre la serie Dexter (2)
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Dexter es sin ninguna duda una de mis series de televisión preferidas. Está tan pero tan bien hecha que cada capitulo es un disfrute total. Hay mucha sangre, cosas realmente repugnantes y mucha lucha moral, pero de todas maneras, la esencia final de todo está relacionada con la gran búsqueda del lugar en el mundo, que tiene que ocupar el personaje principal. Sobre eso va Dexter, la gran búsqueda de la vida, paradojicamente usando a ...
trillard shared as favorite La thérapie de groupe en ligne (2)
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Peut-on utiliser l’internet pour mieux gérer son diabète au quotidien ou pour arrêter de fumer et s’y tenir ? C’est l’idée de nombreux programmes à travers le monde rapporte le New Scientist, comme HealthMedia développé dans le Michigan et qui commence à donner des résultats impressionnants, notamment pour aider les fumeurs à décrocher. HealthMedia a développé de nombreux programmes (pour lutter contre les désordres alimentaires, contre le stress, la dépression, les troubles du sommeil…), mais ...
«صدای زنانه» حرف پرتی بیشتر نیست (3)
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اجازه بدهید مثل همیشه ساده و صریح بگویم: پدیدهای که به آن اسم «صدای زنانه» در وبلاگهای فارسی دادهاند به خودی خود صرفا یک نوع خاص از کارکرد اصلی وبلاگ فارسی یعنی نمایش عمومی فردیت است. نمایش عمومی فردیت در دنیای مجازی. مگر جامعه بحرانزده ما راه دیگری هم برای ارضای نیاز آدمهایش به فردیت باقی میگذارد؟ درین مورد خاص نمایش عمومی فردیتی که با عشوه ریختنهای «زنانه» (سازهی فرهنگی) مرسوم در مرز پر گهر ...
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شدیدلی مخالفماون قدر بدم می آد بعضی ها میان می شن صاحاب پدیده وبلاگ انگار و هر کسی از اینا اجازه نگرفته یه گهی تو وبلاگش بخوره قهوه ای باید بشه لابد. بابا به شما چه مربوط که اصن وبلاگ و صدای زنانه و مردانه و الخ ش رو تعیین تکلیف کنین و اصن کی گفته اون نگاه تخمی تون درسته و اصن "حرف" اون چیزیه که شما تعریف می کنین؛ بابا وبلاگ خودشه می خواد بیاد توش بگوزه؛ اینم از نظر خودش حرفه و اصن از نظر من هم حرفه وقتی که حتا گوزیدن هم ژانر زنانه ش تا حالا نبوده. کلن که غر زیاد دارم در این مورد ولی فعلن افکارم پراکنده س. اگه کسی غر مرتبط داره بیاد بزنه من دلم خنک شه.
Blacknowledgement - bell hooks über das Hinsehen (1)
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Bin wieder einmal bei Recherchen auf wichtige Zitate gestoßen. Hier eines von bell hooks, die bei BLACKprint schon häufiger aufgetaucht ist (klick, klick):Für Schwarze gibt es Handlungsspielräume, in denen wir zum einen den Blick des Anderen hinterfragen können. Zum anderen können wir aber auch den Blick erwidern, einander anblicken und das Gesehene benennen. Das "Hinsehen" war und ist weltweit eine Geste des Widerstands für kolonisierte Schwarze. Menschen, die Machtbeziehungen unterworfen sind, lernen durch Erfahrung, daß ...
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 14-16, 2008 (1)
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Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for one terrific weekend? Although the Moon will interfere, one of the year's best meteor showers is about to happen - the Leonids. Will it be the super-storm that produced thousands of meteors as it did a few years ago? Don't hold your breath - but chances are very good you'll spot more than one meteor for just spending a little bit of time observing. For those who enjoy ...
Boeing to test biofuel on Air New Zealand flight (1)
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Boeing and Air New Zealand will fly a jumbo jet powered partly by biofuel next month, the two companies announced today. An Air New Zealand jet will leave Auckland on December 3 with a 50-50 mix of jet fuel and oil from jatropha trees, in one of its four engines on a flight designed to show that jatropha biofuel is suitable for use in aviation as well as economical to produce . "This flight strongly ...
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