Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

Materials are important to efficient harvesting of sun light, harvesting energy from temperature gradients with thermoelectric materials, providing energy storage technology e.g. in batteries and via hydrogen storage, and enabling light-weight materials for transportation. Tags: Brief. MRS (Materials Research Society).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The grant increases will play a key role in establishing corn cobs as a viable commodity and setting the stage for corn cob harvesting across the United States, according to POET. Fourteen farmers in the Emmetsburg area will run cob harvests this year with prototype equipment from a variety of manufacturers. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Research on utilizing low-grade heat from sources such as industrial waste streams, geothermal activity, and solar heating has focused on using solid-state thermoelectrics and Stirling engines to harvest low-grade waste heat as electrical energy. Tags: Thermoelectrics Waste Heat Recovery. dela Cruz, John P. Ferraris, Anvar A.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

The Biomass Innovation Park will provide harvesting, handling, storage, densification, pre-processing, and transportation for multiple feedstocks including switchgrass. The first phase of construction is scheduled for completion by the end of 2010, in time to store and process switchgrass following the fall harvest.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

A team of researchers from the US and Germany has identified the protein LHCSR—an ancient light-harvesting protein—as the molecular photo-protective mechanism that acts to prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence. —Peers et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

All that changed this year was the pace of that increase because of unseasonable rains that affected the harvest. Tags: Brief. UNICA’s Technical Director, Antonio de Padua Rodrigues. In 2008, Brazil produced an estimated 565 million metric tons of sugarcane, which yielded 31.3 million tons of sugar and 25.7 billion liters (6.8

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2010

Bio Base Europe, a joint initiative of Biopark Terneuzen (The Netherlands) and Ghent Bio-Energy Valley (Flanders) reports that its first crop of genetically modified poplars of the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) has been harvested and will be modified into bioethanol in a Flemish-Dutch pilot installation. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Made available by Statoil, the Bio95 2G mixture uses ethanol derived from wheat straw collected on Danish fields after harvest and produced by DONG Inbicon , using enzyme technology from Novozymes. Tags: Brief. An E5 blend of 95% gasoline and 5% cellulosic ethanol is premiering at 100 filling stations across Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

To harvest the algae, LiveFuels uses a proprietary mixture of oil-rich “algae grazers,” such as filter-feeding fish species and a variety of other aquatic herbivores, in place of expensive and energy-intensive mechanical equipment. Tags: Brief.

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Mississippi Louisiana Pollution Oil 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The research will be integrated into course work including an existing graduate course with a specific focus on energy harvesting. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

A natural leaf combines light harvesting, photo-induced charge separation and catalysis modules to capture solar energy and split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Tags: Brief. It was among more than 12,000 scientific reports scheduled for presentation at the meeting, one of the largest scientific gatherings of 2010. Tongxiang Fan. (A

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Norway has trawled for kelp commercially on the coast for 35 years, Skjermo says, and harvests about 170,000 tonnes each year primarily for use in a range of food products. The quantity of kelp harvested in Norway is kept at a sustainable level and cannot be increased just like that. Tags: Brief. Jonesa, M.L. Kubackia and T.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2010

Most ethanol operators are confident that canes of sweet sorghum can be harvested, transported and processed with existing sugarcane equipment, according to Ceres. Tags: Brief. —Richard Hamilton, Ceres President and CEO.

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Brazil Financing Hybrid Water 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2010

Photoexcitation increases the conduction-band population, leading to larger thermionic currents and enabling the device to harvest both photon and heat energy. (b) It is actually something fundamentally different about how you can harvest energy. —Dr. Tags: Brief. a) Energy diagram of the PETE process. Schwede et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. million metric tons of sugarcane each harvest year, for production of approximately 720,000 metric tons of sugar, 600 million liters of ethanol and 15,000 MWh of electric power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Cyclone is currently working on a DARPA-sponsored Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project with Robotic Technology to develop an unmanned robotic vehicle that can harvest and fuel itself from land-based vegetative biomass. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.). —Gary Champagne, CEO of United Fuels.

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Oil-Sands Power Powered Engine 285

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

SG Biofuels has also eliminated the harvest sale risk to the farmers by providing guaranteed purchase contracts of 100 percent of the production. Tags: Brief. Through the model, participating community farmers received free seedlings and monthly technical training from SG Biofuels.

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Guatemala Low Cost Oil Standards 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The projects are part of a larger Air Force initiative to explore the use of alternative energy sources and energy harvesting and storage. Vashaee and his engineering graduate students will use the AFOSR grant to develop thermoelectric materials that will harvest waste heat from military aircraft. Tags: Brief.

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Waste Tulsa Polymer Grant 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Algae from a typical photo-bioreactor is harvested daily and may be treated as biomass, which can be used as biofuel or as a raw material source for biopolymer feed stock. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

The McConchie-Stroud System consists of a modular bioreactor and related infrastructure used for harvesting algae and refining into algae products. Tags: Brief. Algae.Tec is currently undertaking an Initial Public Offering by way of a prospectus dated 16 July 2010 with the intention to list on the ASX by the end of September 2010.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Jatropha plants are cultivated and their seeds will be harvested in cooperation with farmers from these village communities. Tags: Brief. The company is supporting several village communities in the state of Tamil Nadu with funds and expertise from its already successfully completed research projects. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

This type of yield increase would mean that the average quantity of sugarcane harvested could rise from 80 to 100 tons per hectare, said Marc Ehrhardt, Group Vice President, BASF Plant Science. Tags: Brief. This would result in an almost unprecedented jump in productivity for any crop.

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Brazil 2008 Environment Energy 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

WSU will develop advanced phototrophic (light) and heterotrophic (nutrient) bioreactors and harvesting technology to enable cost-efficient, year-round growth of the algal strains developed by TGI. Tags: Brief.

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Washington Seattle Renewable Water 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

Another exhibit explains the process chain from live algae fed with carbon dioxide through harvesting, drying, oil extraction and refining to the biofuel used by future aircraft. Tags: Brief. EADS Innovation Works will exhibit a containerized photo-bioreactor made by IGV GmbH as an example for advanced algae cultivation.

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2010 Hybrid Fuel Concept 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Among the planned research areas are: battery efficiency and safety; high-fidelity sensors for energy storage systems; mitigation of lithium battery fires; hydrogen storage research; bio material growth, harvesting and processing for power; and. Tags: Brief. fuel cell advancements.

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Energy Storage Energy Power Powered 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Equally important, Fe-TAMLs are very soluble in water and have low molar extinction coefficients in the visible spectrum, qualities that could be very helpful in attaining unimpeded photon harvesting in a future photosynthetic process. Tags: Brief. Resources. Chadwick Ellis, Neal D. McDaniel, Stefan Bernhard and Terrence J.

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Water Conversion Affordable 2010 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2010

Oil palm fresh fruit bunches are harvested at plantations; the fruits which contain oils are separated at oil mills, with large amounts of EFB remaining as waste. Tags: Brief. The plant will use oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) as feedstock; oil palm EFB is lignocellulosic biomass. Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy Vol.

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Oil Malaysia Engine Japan 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Harvesting beetle-killed trees could produce low-carbon fuels and chemicals, establish a foundation for a sustainable biorefinery industry and create jobs, particularly in rural areas. Availability from the extensive margin arises from expanding the area harvested. Tags: Biobutanol Biomass.

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Renewable Colorado Fuel Canada 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

In its report, the JRC notes that bumper harvests in some EU areas have helped counterbalance the effects of poor weather on crops in other areas. The report also says that even though the EU’s cereal harvest should reach average levels this year, extreme hot and dry conditions will have a huge impact on winter crop production in Russia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

The Aquasea Group has developed and provisionally patented proven high yield algae growth/harvest technologies which have been licensed to C2A. With little more than water and carbon dioxide, algae can harvest sunlight and turn it into energy that could eventually be used to create jet fuel. — Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Canada.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

The AFC will also develop low-cost and efficient harvesting, dewatering, and oil extraction technologies and perform subsequent bioprocessing to produce high value co-products alongside biodiesel. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Australia Biodiesel China. The Australian Government funding will support the construction of 0.4

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Commercial Grant China Australia 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

ZeaChem currently uses harvested hybrid poplar trees as the feedstock of choice in its combined biochemical and thermochemical process for the production of ethanol. These short-rotation hybrids can be harvested as often as three years, and require replanting only once every five harvests. ZeaChem’s process. Click to enlarge.

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Production Commercial Hydrogen Convert 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

productivity algae cultivation, high oil content, low cost harvesting and processing).” which 20 g/m 2 -day is harvested; Oil yield of about 20,000 liters/ha-yr (2,100. for harvesting and oil recovery, as well as microalgae biomass productivity and oil content. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Fuels. modification.

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Oil Low Cost Fuel Production 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

Studies were conducted on the details of the business, including securing agricultural fields for growing sugarcane (area: 11,000 hectares) with a plan for harvesting, constructing ethanol production plant facilities, financing, and finding buyers. Tags: Brief.

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Philippines Power Powered Production 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

If this energy could be harvested, it would be equivalent to 21 billion gallons of gasoline (ThePigSite, 2004). Tags: Brief. Within the US approximately 250 million tons of dry fecal materials are produced yearly, with an energy value comparable to wood (on a dry matter basis). In the case of swine manure, an estimated 5.3 American J.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Plantic’s novel polymer manufacturing technology is based on the use of high-amylose corn starch, a material derived from annual harvesting of specialized (hybrid) corn. Tags: Brief. Plantic has offices in Melbourne, Australia; Jena, Germany; and Boston, US.

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