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Renewable Biofuels Can Create Green Jobs and Contribute to a New Energy Economy

Funding existing research and development programs and extending tax credits for clean energy production can speed completion of renewable energy projects that create jobs and generate economic activity

8 Jan 2009

Butanol Made from Plants Could Replace Butanol from Petroleum

According to a University of Illinois researcher, butanol made from plant material could displace butanol made from petroleum, just not at the fuel pump

8 Jan 2009

GreenShift Algae Bioreactor Technology Receives Grant

GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) today announced that it has received a grant award of $375,000 to further the development of GreenShift's patented and patent-pending algae bioreactor

5 Jan 2009

Air New Zealand Makes Successful Test Flight Using Jatropha Biofuel

The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by the sustainable second-generation biofuel jatropha has been successfully completed in Auckland

1 Jan 2009

GreenHunter Biodiesel Approved by the US EPA for On Road Use

GREENHUNTER BIOFUELS, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. (AMEX: GRH), announced today that it has registered and been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency to sell GreenHunter Biodiesel to the on-road market in the United States

1 Jan 2009

Scientists Engineer Algae to Make Fuel

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel

23 Dec 2008

Nanotechnologies for Cleantech Report

Clean-tech investing is at an all time high and is expected to flourish in a range of sectors, including renewable and distributed energy, advanced materials, transportation, and water purification and management

17 Dec 2008

Barack Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of Energy

15 Dec 2008

World Record Setting Earthrace Biodiesel Boat Starts Touring Australia

Over the last two years of promotions, the amazing Earthrace boat has had nearly 150,000 people walk through her, and she’s been seen on TV networks, and in Newspapers and Magazines around the globe. Now she's touring Australia

14 Dec 2008