With small toe dips, some near foot submergence now comes a commitment of sorts from British oil major BP Plc who became the latest oil company getting into biofuels by taking major a stake in ethanol production when it extended an agreement with Verenium Corp. to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County in […]

The Algae Problems

December 22, 2008 | 16 Comments

Lots of email comes commenting on a shortage of algae news. One prime reason is that most research is privately done so making whatever information that could be disclosed -limited and if escaped, subject to liability. We will only get what companies want out for quite some time to come. Next is the field is […]

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) national program on Agricultural System Competitiveness and Sustainability scientists are combining economic and natural-resources analyses with data drawn from a national network of field experiments that are being used in models developed by ARS and the USDA Economic Research Service. The research is making it easier to understand the […]

For all the bad feelings towards “Big Oil” they get some things done. One of the more effective investments they have underway and has been for years is the Gas Technology Institute near Des Plaines Illinois. With over 100 research scientists and engineers earning 13 patents in 2007 and filing for 18 more, this is […]

There is a lot of coal on earth. The short view is that coal can be substituted for oil products in liquid fuels from natural gas up to diesel and jet fuel. The method for converting coal to liquids, which has been in use since the early 1920s, is called the Fisher-Tropsch process. F-T has […]

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