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Amyris Opens Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Brazil; Final Scale-up Before Commercial Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals

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opened the Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Campinas, Brazil. The facility, located in the midst of the sugarcane processing industry, secures the final development step before full commercial production of Amyris’s renewable fuels and chemicals. Amyris Brasil Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Ltda., Earlier post.).

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Study finds São Paulo switch from ethanol to gasoline dropped local ozone levels by 20%, increased CO and nitric oxide concentrations

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A study by a pair of researchers at Northwestern University found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20%. At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up.

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Amyris Raises $41.75M in C Round; Funding to Advance Scale Up, First Commercial Plant

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Amyris is a synthetic biology company using a platform of engineered yeast to produce a portfolio of renewable chemicals and transportation fuels. Amyris has raised $41.75 Amyris has raised $41.75 Amyris is in the process of securing its first production site and expects to begin to order equipment for this plant toward the end of the year.

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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NO 2 is a pollutant formed mainly from fossil fuel combustion, and traffic emissions can contribute up to 80% of ambient NO 2 in cities. In the new study, the authors used NO 2 as a surrogate for the traffic pollution mixture to focus specifically on the effects of traffic pollution on childhood asthma development.

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The Fed Is Driving Down Oil Prices

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dollar to go up, which is putting downward pressure on prices,” Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, told Reuters. The Indian government is stepping in to blunt the impact of higher fuel prices, at great expense to public coffers. And that really caused the euro to take a dip and the (U.S.)

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Portland and San Francisco Battle For Electric Car Domination Chicago Gets First Solar Powered EV Charging Station World’s Top 10 Fastest Electric Cars A Few Pictures of Upcoming Electric Cars: Source [ PhysOrg.com ] Image Credit: Clayton B. At the time of the press release, I could not find a definitive picture. Sorry for any confusion.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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In other words, while vehicle and fuel technologies clearly play a major role, so does demand reduction and the development of smarter, sustainable transportation systems. The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States. The world is urbanizing.

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