NewsRack: 'Ethanol' news in 'Transportation-Independent' topic for user flenvcenter

Sharon Kitchens: The Buzz About Caledonia Spirits & Winery	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Located nearby the 10,000 square foot distillery on the banks of the Lamoille River, visitors may notice several beehives. Unsurprisingly, Hardie, who has been keeping bees for nearly five decades, enjoys being around bees.
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Exxon Takes Algae Fuel Back to the Drawing Board	21.5.2013	Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories
A $300 million project seems to have failed to produce a cheap way to make fuel from algae. In 2009, ExxonMobil announced that it would pay Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics up to $300 million to develop algae-based fuels.
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Keeping Produce Fresh Longer	16.5.2013	Agricultural and Biofuel News - ENN
Billions of dollars of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thrown away each year as produce ripens too quickly and starts to rot in different markets before public buyers even buy them. Even though you might expect these products to start rotting to their death after they are first harvested, researchers explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after they are picked. In fact, once these products are picked, they produce and release into the air ethylene gas, a crucial component for the ripening and blooming process.
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Rocky Mountain Snow Packs	15.5.2013	Agricultural and Biofuel News - ENN
Snow pack forms from layers of snow that accumulate in geographic regions and high altitudes where the climate includes cold weather for extended periods during the year. Snow packs are an important water resource that feed streams and rivers as they melt. Warmer spring temperatures since 1980 are causing an estimated 20 percent loss of snow cover across the Rocky Mountains of western North America, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey. The new study builds upon a previous USGS snow pack investigation which showed that, until the 1980s, the northern Rocky Mountains experienced large snow packs when the central and southern Rockies experienced meager ones, and vice versa. Yet, since the 1980s, there have been simultaneous snow pack declines along the entire length of the Rocky Mountains, and unusually severe declines in the north.
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Another Town Now Requires Solar Power For New Buildings	15.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
From Mother Nature Network's Matt Hickman: Sebastopol, an agri-artsy Sonoma outpost about an hour north of San Francisco, can now claim bragging rights as being...
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High Oil Prices Help Oil Production, But Not Biofuels	15.5.2013	Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories
An International Energy Agency report says investments in oil technology will lead to a worldwide supply boom. High oil prices were supposed to make biofuels and other oil alternatives more competitive. If only oil would stay above $80 a barrel (or $70 or $60), biofuels companies often say, then they’d have a market. Their technology for turning weeds into alcohol or pond scum into crude oil could really take off.
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Effects of Ethanol on Vehicle Energy Efficiency and Implications on Ethanol Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Analysis (Cached)	14.5.2013	pubs.acs.org
Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es305209a
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Maryland Nuclear Plant Shuts Down Reactor	10.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
LUSBY, Md. -- Constellation Energy Nuclear Group says one of two nuclear reactors at its Calvert Cliffs power plant in Maryland shut down automatically after...
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Biofuel Progress without Enzymes	10.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
The search for cheaper ways to provide fuels to fit into old technology is one way to face up to carbon dioxide emissions. One solution is extracting sugars from cellulose, using enzymes, or better, a new acid catalyst.
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Light-Scattering Properties are Risk Factor for Coral Reef Survival	9.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Coral reefs have been gaining a lot of attention by conservation groups as environmental and human stresses are causing irreparable damage to these reefs. Stresses such as warming oceans and climate change are going to serve as future obstacles for these coral populations. However, the study of dying corals is complex, and researchers have found that some corals die while others do not, even when exposed to the same environmental conditions. In order to figure out this conundrum, a research team from Northwestern University and The Field Museum of Natural History found that corals themselves play a role in their susceptibility to deadly coral bleaching due to the light-scattering properties of their skeletons.
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Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions	8.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Global greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totaled 4.69 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), an increase of 13 percent over 1990 emissions. By comparison, global CO2 emissions from transport totaled 6.76 billion tons that year, and emissions from electricity and heat production reached 12.48 billion tons, according to Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service.
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Tanya M. Acker: Big Thinking at Fortune's "Brainstorm Green": Why Are We Politicizing Good, New Ideas?	8.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Sadly, rather than applauding this type of innovation we're instead stranded in a political culture that seems hell bent on demonizing it. Certainly, the development of alternative energy technologies has seen its mistakes and miscalculations but what industry hasn't?
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Can sharks, algae help win the war against superbugs?	7.5.2013	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
Two technologies based on marine organisms offer hope for the growing problem of antibiotic resistant infections.
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Nuclear Plant Shut Down Due To Leak	7.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan was taken offline Sunday after operators discovered a leak from a water tank. Although the tank has leaked...
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When Clean Tech Got ... Complicated	5.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
NEW YORK (AP) — A decade ago, large investors in so-called clean technology had a straightforward goal: finance companies that would help eliminate the world's...
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Is the Sun the Only Thing Powerful Enough to Unite Democrats and Republicans?	5.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
From TakePart contributor RL Miller: A funny thing is happening on the way to conservative attacks on solar energy—some conservatives are championing renewable energy over...
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You'll Never Guess Who's Making Green Cars In LA	2.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
LANCASTER, Calif. -- The first Chinese-owned vehicle manufacturer in the United States unveiled ambitious plans Wednesday to eventually build as many as 1,000 plug-in electric...
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David Suzuki: Canada Is Ready For a Transformative Energy Experience	2.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Some people think a widespread shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources is not practical or even possible. And so we carry on, rushing to squeeze every last drop of oil and gas from the ground using increasingly difficult and destructive methods like fracking, deep-sea drilling and oil sands extraction, with seemingly little concern for what we'll do after we've burned it all.
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Glowing algae makes for a living night light	1.5.2013	TreeHugger
With the right set-up, phosphorescent algae can create a lightshow in your room at night.
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Energy Department Backs New Way to Make Diesel from Corn	29.4.2013	Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories
A novel chemical pathway could address the high cost of transporting cellulosic materials to make diesel fuel. Within a year, a pilot plant in Indiana will start converting the stalks and leaves of corn plants into diesel and jet fuel. The plant will use a novel approach involving acid as well as processes borrowed from the oil and chemical industry, which its developers hope will make fuel at prices cheap enough to compete with petroleum.
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