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Blue Marble Energy and Bionavitas Announce Partnership to Produce Industrial Biochemicals from Microalgae

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The focus on fuels without the chemicals is missing the point, and missing the model that has worked for over 200 years, and that’s the oil companies. BME plans to scale from a 1 ton per day demo facility in Seattle, Washington, to a 33 ton per day (1,000 ton per month) pilot facility in Odessa, WA. Kelly Ogilvie.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Shrock Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Indiana University, Ritts is a National Science Foundation CAREER grant recipient, and an expert on oil and gas exploration. Earlier post.).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. San Jose Mercury News ). because, even E85, we wish that would roll out a lot faster -- but, the only infrastructure thats really in place, besides oil, is electricity distribution. Bloomberg News ).

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Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

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As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. Because environmental organizations have dropped the ball for so long on the actual costs and benefits of the various "green" transportation alternatives, policy makers and the public at large are at the whim of the advertising power of big auto and big oil.

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