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Praj, Gevo to enter commercialization phase of Gevo isobutanol technology for sugarcane and molasses feedstocks

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Praj Industries and Gevo announced that Gevo’s proprietary isobutanol technology will now be available for licensing to processors of sugarcane juice and molasses. The two companies entered into a Development Agreement and a Development License Agreement in November 2015. Earlier post.).

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

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Sugarcane is harvested on company-owned and partnership farms, and then transported to the Costa Pinto (COPI) sugar mill and ethanol distillery located in the City of Piracicaba. After the sugarcane has been crushed, the cane juice is filtered, treated with calcium hydroxide, decanted, and then sent to sugar production.

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GM taps LG for Volt Battery

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says any OEM worth its salt will want multiple suppliers, since relying on only one would put the company at a strategic disadvantage, should the battery maker decide to bail or raise prices. From what I’m reading, there’s a lot of battery production coming on line in the next 12 months in Asia and Europe.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Skip to Content Massively explains Warhammer Online to the dedicated WoW player AOL Tech Europe ↓ Polska Deutschland Asia ↓ ???? ???? ??? ???? Or Cell phone companies agreeing on all cellphone using a mini-usb plug. Featured stories Feed mophie Juice Pack Air hands-on and impressions How would you change HPs Mini 1000 Mi?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Mr. Agassi was an executive at SAP that lead the software company to being the enterprise software leader ahead of Oracle, IBM, and all others. So while my car is powering the great city during the day how will I have juice to drive home at the end of the day? 1) XEL (1) XPV Capital (1) YGE (1) YHOO (1) ZENN Motor Company (1) ZNN.V (1)

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

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In an agreement between Nissan and the city of Seattle, the automaker says it intends to sell the cars in the Seattle area and work with government and other organizations and companies on a plan to promote the cars and creation of a network of charging facilities. Washington, D.C.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Focusing on private sector delivery, they argued that developing countries needed to ensure proper regulatory environments to create demand for technologies and that they needed to ensure intellectual property protection and enforcement to ensure that companies felt comfortable licensing technology. Form of Transfer.