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Could it be that the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas is the same country that spends more on green technology than any other country?
Touted when first announced in January of 2010 as “likely to create hundreds of jobs”, the world’s largest wood pellet plant – a joint effort between German firm RWE Innogy (ETR:RWE) and Swedish firm BMC – cost $170 million to build and occupies about 300 acres in the Waycross (Georgia) Industrial Park. RWE Innogy delivers renewable energy in Europe. BMC is a project and technology development company vested in wood-based biomass.
A collaboration between researchers from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Boston College has delivered a solar thermoelectric generator, or STEG, with a peak efficiency of 4.6 percent.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released its national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory on Monday, April 18, 2011 showing that overall emissions during 2009 decreased by 6.1 percent.
Monsanto (NYSE: MON) has announced that it will be investing in Sapphire Energy, a company pioneering research and development in algae biofuel in an emerging sector called "Green Crude Production."
On February 17, 2011 Xcel Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEL), Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, announced that it was suspending the solar energy incentive application process and cutting the associated rebate.
This is part III of my three-part Q & A with Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO).
This is the second part of my three-part interview with Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the Algal Biomass Organization.
Robert Gluck: What are some of the details regarding the "improvements in technology and processes across the production cycle"?
Recently India concluded its hosting of the world’s largest international forum promoting methane capture and use.
Los Angeles based OriginOil recently announced a suite of breakthrough technologies that, combined, will allow for end-to-end, algae-to-oil biofuel production.
