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April 17, 2012 – 10:42 am | No Comment

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SucreSource Signs GS Caltex
February 16, 2012 – 2:28 pm | No Comment

(SucreSource/PRNewsWire)  First Cellulose-to-Sugar Plant Sale and Partnership
SucreSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueFire Renewables, Inc., has signed agreements with GS Caltex, a Korean petroleum company, to build a cellulose to sugar plant in Korea.
“This agreement …

The 10 Top Unanswered Biofuels Questions for 2011
December 14, 2011 – 9:07 am | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …Your calls and emails are always the highlight of our days. Most questions can be answered johnny-on-the-spot. Some are still out there and well worth arguing over. Here are the …

Mario Garnero Addresses Council on Foreign Relations and Columbia on ‘Powerhouse Nations’
December 12, 2011 – 8:42 am | No Comment

(MarketWatch)  Mario Garnero, Chairman of Brasilinvest, Brazil’s pioneer merchant bank, stated that BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) can no longer be simply described as ‘Emerging Markets’. Their economic, political and energy status make …

Iowa Development Authority to Weigh Incentives for South Korean Project
October 28, 2011 – 9:41 am | No Comment

by Donnelle Eller (Des Moines Register)  Development authority to weigh help for feed additive firm’s Fort Dodge plan
Iowa’s new public-private economic development authority begins with a bang today, considering incentives for a $324 million project …

Traffic Jams Reduce Hydrolytic Efficiency of Cellulase on Cellulose Surface
September 8, 2011 – 5:05 pm | No Comment

by Kiyohiko Igarashi, Takayuki Uchihashi, Anu Koivula, Masahisa Wada, Satoshi Kimura, Tetsuaki Okamoto, Merja Penttilä, Toshio Ando, and Masahiro Samejima (Science Magazine)   A deeper mechanistic understanding of the saccharification of cellulosic biomass could enhance the efficiency of biofuels development. We report here …

Oil Palm Residue Could Solve Food vs. Biofuel Debate
August 23, 2011 – 1:04 pm | No Comment

by Ismira Lutfia   (Jakarta Globe)  The millions of tons of fibrous residue produced by palm oil plantations across the country could soon become a major source of raw material for renewable fuel.
Over the past …

Giant King Grass Pellets Tested By Korea Forest Research Institute
July 25, 2011 – 1:47 pm | No Comment

(PRNewsWire/Viaspace)  - VIASPACE Inc., a clean energy company growing Giant King™ Grass as a low-carbon, renewable biomass crop and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc., provided results of testing of Giant King Grass energy pellets by …

Korea Leads Marine Biofuel Industry
May 18, 2011 – 8:19 am | No Comment

(Arirang News)  Marine plants are being cultivated in waters off the southwestern coast of Korea.
This is seaweed named gracilaria, which was used generations ago to treat fevers.
However, nowadays, this plant is primarily used as a …

Posco and LanzaTech to Collaborate on Renewable Energy
February 22, 2011 – 3:10 pm | No Comment

(LanzaTech)  LanzaTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with Posco, one of the largest steel producers in the world, covering the implementation of its gas fermentation technology to convert the steel maker’s flue gases to ethanol and other …

Chinese Academy Inks Deal with Republic of Korea University on Algae Biodiesel Research
December 8, 2010 – 2:08 pm | No Comment

(People’s Daily)  A Chinese science academy in east China’s Shandong Province has clinched a deal to introduce photobioreactor technology from Chosun University in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to aid the former’s research on mass …

Seaweed-Based Biofuel Farm to Rise in Aurora
May 12, 2010 – 9:09 am | No Comment

by Manny Galvez  (The Philippean Star)  The government plans to develop a $5-million (P220-million) ethanol farm at a 100-hectare site in the province using the Korean technology of extracting ethanol from seaweed.
Sen. Edgardo Angara told The …

Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom
April 9, 2010 – 2:24 pm | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Scott Carpenter once noted that we know more about the heavens than the sea — but for biofuels, there is every urgent reason to look carefully to salt-friendly projects that …

For The First Time, Researchers Harvest Raw Electric Current Directly From Algae
April 5, 2010 – 4:32 pm | No Comment

(Popular Science) …But a collaboration of Korean and Californian researchers wanted to take raw electricity directly from algae themselves by harvesting electrons.
Using the common Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a test subject, the researchers applied what’s known …