ethanol

Mexicans to produce algae biofuels on industrial scale

December 21, 2009

Biofields, a Mexican clean energy firm, has licensed Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol© technology whereby it can turn an algae cell of a hybrid blue-green seaweed into a ‘tiny ethanol factory’. Biofield’s plant to produce algae biofuel will be sited at Puerto Libertad, in the state of Sonara, 300 km from the United States. The plant [...]

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From sludge to ethanol

October 19, 2009

Image via Wikipedia The other day I was watching a TV program about domestic wastewater treatment and I kept wondering about what happened to the sludge left behind. Well, it seems like there are companies out there doing the thinking for me. Massachusetts-based Qteros and Israeli commodities recycler Applied CleanTech (ACT) have entered a joint [...]

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Interview: Celso Vainer Manzato

October 5, 2009

As a follow-up to our post about Brazil’s sugar cane zoning proposals, Energy Refuge spoke to the Chief of the Environment Unit of Brazil’s Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Celso Vainer Manzato, about the ZAE Cana bill that could help Brazil decrease the carbon footprint of its flagship sugarcane fuel and reduce the impact that such [...]

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