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Algenol Partners With Valero Services on Algae to Ethanol

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is a privately owned company founded in 2006. This process achieves an energy balance of more than 5 to 1 and a life cycle carbon footprint that is 20% percent of petroleum (an 80% reduction from petroleum), according to Algenol. Algenol Biofuels Inc. Earlier post.).

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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Compared to 2005-2006, it has probably doubled its presence. In the 8 th edition, the China Energy Group researchers have amassed an enormous trove of data from firsthand sources and organized much of it into a relational database, making it far more useful for research and analytical purposes.

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Biofuels research awarded millions in funding

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The grants come from the US Departments of Energy and Agriculture under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006. The University of Florida has been awarded $643,000 to identify the metabolic competition for carbon that affects growth, cellulose biosynthesis and lignification.

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