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Seawater-Based Biofuels: Texas’ Energy Allied International &New Nile Co., Egypt
Apr 17th
Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom Florida, United States [Biofuels Digest]
A visitor to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism would have been awestruck by the massive posters touting Winston cigarettes as “the taste of freedom” that often plastered locations where posters of Chairman Stalin and his ilk has once fluttered. It looked as if Christo had wrapped the Iron Curtain in a project sponsored by R.J. Reynolds.
If there were a taste to energy freedom, it would be salt for sure. Our ancestral mother, the ocean, forms an almost unfathomable medium of mystery — astronaut Scott Carpenter More >
Joule Biotechnologies: #Ethanol and #Diesel from Sunlight! (#SolarFuel #BioFuel)
Feb 15th
A Company to Watch! “One Giant Step Closer to Fuel-from-Sunlight by Joule Biotechnologies”
Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. has just announced that a lease agreement has been signed for a new facility in Leander, Texas, which will serve as a pilot plant to develop the company’s solar powered system for producing ethanol and other biofuels. The energy efficient process is based on photosynthetic microorganisms and it operates without the use of conventional biomass or algae biofuel processes.
CleanTechnica and Gas 2.0 have been eagerly following Joule’s progress, and the company has already produced ethanol and diesel at a lab scale rate. It plans to start ethanol More >
