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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Launches Weekly Flights Using Biofuel Made from Cooking Oil
2013-03-13 23:15:45| Airlines - Topix.net
Biofuels have been embraced by assorted military organizations , but commercial adoption has thus far been lagging behind.
Biofuel production pushes farming communities off land - report
2013-02-28 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Increased demand for biofuel production has driven farmers and forest communities from Brazil to Indonesia off their land, threatening those people's wellbeing and food security, a report from GRAIN says. Research conducted by the Spain-based non-profit, which supports small farmers, found growing need for biofuels has driven about 300 land "grabs' worldwide, forcing forest clearance and draining of wetlands, with Europe at the forefront of the global demand. In the past decade, 17 million...
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Estimates reduce amount of additional land available for biofuel production by almost 80%
2013-02-27 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Amid efforts to expand production of biofuels, scientists are reporting new estimates that downgrade the amount of additional land available for growing fuel crops by almost 80 percent. Their report appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Steffen Fritz and colleagues explain that growing concern exists in the U.S. and the European Union on how production of biofuels will impact food security. This has led to a realization that increased production of biofuels must take...
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Researchers characterize algae parasite that impacts on algae biofuel
2013-02-21 14:30:23| Green Car Congress
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Biofuel from Algae Part One: The Pros and Cons of Pond Scum
2013-02-19 16:05:37| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
New methods are coming online to help mitigate many of the challenges associated with algae-based fuel production. But do the advantages of this "green" fuel outweigh the disadvantages? And just how "green" is algal fuel anyway?
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