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Lux: China, India lead Asian alternative fuels; targets likely will not be met

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billion gallons per year for 2020—but as total fuel demand explodes as well, ethanol will creep up to only 4% of gasoline in 2017, placing that target in doubt, according to Lux. India is betting on jatropha for biodiesel as it strives to meet a 20% biofuels mandate for 2017, but biofuels will account for less than 0.6%

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Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

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The project took place in palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia, and was conducted in collaboration with a palm oil company KLK, a Dutch sustainable trade organization IDH, and an international certification system ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification). The potential that the method offers is enormous, Neste said.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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Food waste is a huge problem, and there are a lot of people suffering from food insecurity in Pittsburgh,” Fang says. The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014. Fang left Harvard in 2017 to join Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor. www.youtube.com. But she continued to work with Tambe on PAWS. CURRENT WORK.

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