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SG Biofuels Partners with Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels for Jatropha Initiative

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The SG Biofuels/RSB pilot is evaluating the practicality and usability of RSB sustainability standards applied against a 1,400 acre (600 hectare) Jatropha community-farming model established by SG Biofuels in Guatemala. The company recently announced the first elite Jatropha cultivar, JMax 100 ( earlier post ), optimized for Guatemala.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. GEA President Craig Mataczynski of Gradient Resources has challenged the industry to reach 5% of total US electricity production.

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SG Biofuels Launches Elite Jatropha Cultivar; Claims 100% Increase in Yield

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SG Biofuels, a sustainable plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of oil, has launched JMax 100, a proprietary cultivar of Jatropha optimized for growing conditions in Guatemala with yields 100% greater than existing varieties. This equates to more than 350 gallons per acre at $1.39

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SG Biofuels and Bunge form strategic alliance on Jatropha for biofuel feedstock

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Bunge, together with Life Technologies and Flint Hills Resources, provides a fully integrated platform from which our customers can develop, produce and profit from large volumes of crude Jatropha oil. —SG Biofuels President and Chief Executive Officer Kirk Haney.

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California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

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California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Neste’s process generates a propane-rich off-gas as a biogenic co-product.

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Made-in-India two-wheeler exports finally on the upswing | Autocar Professional

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On April 18, HMSI inaugurated a new state-of-the-art engine assembly line at its Global Resource Factory in Manesar, Gurugram (Haryana), with a focus on CKD (Completely Knocked Down) exports. Along with its two production facilities at Oragadam and Vallam Vadagal, near Chennai.

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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers. We wondered whether we’d see trade-offs, as we had so often before when we tried to make improvements using more conventional product-development or software-engineering techniques.

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