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AUGUST 24, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech has successfully produced 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, using the company’s gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Holmgren joined LanzaTech in June.).

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. kW renewable energy system being studied for potential commercialization by a combined team from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Cummins Inc.

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Power management company Eaton said it is a key contributor and supporter of the National Zero-Emission Truck ( ZET ) Coalition’s newly issued priority federal recommendations. The coalition is organized by the clean transportation industry group CALSTART, of which Eaton has been a member since 2005.

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MARCH 25, 2009

and Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, will collaborate on testing an anaerobic fermentation process for producing biohydrogen from sugar cane dregs and other biomass. unit is testing a technology in Japan that generates hydrogen from the fermentation of bakery waste. Sapporo Breweries Ltd. The Sapporo Holdings Ltd.

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The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. SGCE is a holding company that acts as the renewable energy investment arm of João Pereira Coutinho, one of Portugal’s most successful businessmen.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made a US$60 million equity investment in leading gas fermentation company LanzaTech. Founded in New Zealand in 2005 and now headquartered in Chicago, LanzaTech turns waste gas from steel mills into ethanol and other high value fuels and chemicals. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 21, 2010

LS9, a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for its “Renewable Petroleum” technology that converts sustainable, plant-based materials into low-carbon fuels and chemicals.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? Due to a sudden company relocation, my wife had no other choice but to drive to her office. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4 That is normal.

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annually from 2005 to 2013, accord ing to a new report from Lux Research. Renewable diesel from waste will emerge as a key biofuel process. Companies led by Beta Renewables, POET-DSM and Abengoa have announced 782 MGY of cellulosic ethanol capacity but only 384 MGY will come to fruition. annual rate from 2013 to 2017—60.4

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JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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JULY 13, 2016

The 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updates and expands upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). These renewable resources include agricultural, forestry, and algal biomass, as well as waste. and Allegheny Science and Technology).

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Valero's financing commitment means that we will no longer require a funding guarantee from the US Department of Energy under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. is the largest and only publicly traded provider of rendering and bakery waste recycling solutions to the nation’s food industry. —Randall C. Darling International Inc.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Worldwide industrial solutions company Harsco Corp. Together, the two companies will jointly develop plans to present the LanzaTech biotechnology to Harsco’s major steel mill customers and explore potential business relationships for installing and operating commercial facilities at selected sites throughout the world.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. million (2001-2005). This is the third time Novozymes has partnered with the DOE for bioenergy enzyme development. million (2008-2012). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

and LanzaTech Ltd, two industrial biology companies, have begun a feasibility study to examine whether Global Bioenergies’ artificial isobutene pathway ( earlier post ), can be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ). Global Bioenergies S.A.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

The company said it will spend 70% of its annual research and advanced engineering budget on environmental technologies. Nissan Green Program 2016, the company’s third environmental mid-term plan, aims to deliver the following by the end of fiscal year 2016: No. 1 in Zero-Emission Vehicles: cumulative sales of 1.5

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The Shanghai Plant started operation in 1998 and was acquired by Johnson Controls through a global acquisition in 2005. Since acquiring this plant in 2005, we have operated the plant to world class standards with ongoing investments in environmental controls, best practices and new technologies.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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MAY 8, 2014

While some of the environmental goals are to meet regulatory targets, such as CO 2 limits in the EU, the Group has also set itself the goal of becoming the market leader in e-mobility by 2018, and to reduce energy, water consumption, waste and emissions per product unit by 25% on a 2010 baseline, Group-wide, by 2018. Click to enlarge.

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Sainsbury’s has become the first company to introduce a refrigerated delivery truck cooled by a liquid nitrogen powered engine ( earlier post ), which will eliminate all emissions associated with refrigeration. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink.

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It has similarly taken heat for campaigning for the advancement of diesel particulate filters in 2005 after accepting donations from the very same companies that manufacture them. DUH has likewise received funding from automakers and occasionally partnered with companies on certain programs. liter diesel.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

a bioenergy and biofuels company based in Washington DC, has signed a letter of intent with Rentech, Inc. The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. The Solena Group, Inc., Earlier post.).

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One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. And he led the creation and marketing of irresistible products including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, which spurred several companies to follow suit with similar products and marketing strategies. IEEE Spectrum article.

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This calls for routine interior cleaning , including washing and vacuuming, as well as making sure that all surfaces are clear of clutter and waste. For instance, Lyft only allows automobiles manufactured after 2005, whereas Uber only allows those no more than 10 years old.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

announced it would seek to reduce carbon emissions intensity from its FedEx Express aircraft and improve the fuel efficiency of its FedEx Express vehicle fleet by 20% by 2020, as compared with its 2005 performance. million pounds of recyclable waste in FY11—an increase of more than 6 million pounds from FY10. In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Specialty chemical company Evonik has introduced a bio-derived version of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), an oxygenate that improves gasoline combustion, helps prevent engine knocking and decreases carbon monoxide and other emissions from vehicles.

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The global biofuels industry averaged 68% in utilization rate from 2005 to 2014, reached a high of 80.9% Waste oils (corn oil, yellow grease, brown grease, and mixed oils), on the other hand, will emerge as a leading feedstock choice and account for 61% of next-generation biofuels with a 3.0 in 2007, dropped to a low of 56.9%

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The company will also pay a $12 million civil penalty. As part of the settlement, the company will spend an additional $6 million to reduce air pollution from diesel vehicle emissions in Texas City and the surrounding area. BP Products North America Inc. The plea is still under review by the US.

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JULY 7, 2014

It enables utility companies to forecast the amount of energy which will be available to be redirected into the grid or stored - helping to ensure that as little as possible is wasted. It could be used to analyze data from industrial enterprises in different cities and identify which sites and equipment waste the most energy.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The company also will test three different alternative fuels—Reclaimed Grease Fuel; B20 biodiesel; and liquefied natural gas—in its heavy-duty trucks. Wal-Mart will test 15 Class 8 trucks retrofitted by Environmental Development Group to run on Reclaimed Grease Fuel made of waste brown cooking grease from Wal-Mart stores.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The partners expect that the proposed facility would principally convert waste grease—primarily animal fats and used cooking oil supplied by Darling—and potentially other feedstocks that become economically and commercially viable into renewable diesel. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MAY 7, 2010

In one pathway to the production of cellulosic biofuel, enzymes first convert cellulose and hemicellulose in agricultural waste to sugars which are then fermented into ethanol. Royal Nedalco” is a subsidiary company of the Dutch agro-industrial group Royal Cosun and is a leading producer of ethanol of agricultural origin in Europe.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The report calculated that if companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their production, they would lose 41 cents for every US$1 in earnings on average. Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Since 1990, GM has decreased its manufacturing emissions by 60%.

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Created in 2005, EFD is supported by the US Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory and the energy industry. The EFD partnership consists of universities, national laboratories, energy producers and service companies, environmental organizations, and government agencies.

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