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Friday 10 April 2009
Oregonians Seek Personal Energy Revolution New York Times, United States Tom Hager, at left, sent a note (below) about his family???s effort to shrink its per-capita energy footprint by 80 percent. This would put the family in line with the Swiss project called the ???2000 Watt Society??? ??? which was nicely explained by Jamais ... |
 KRQE | Energy secretary visits Sandia lab San Francisco Chronicle, USA By SUE MAJOR HOLMES, AP Writer The nation's energy secretary said Friday the scientific work that the federal weapons laboratories do outside their central mission of making sure nuclear weapons are reliable is vital to that core. ... Chu wants labs to work on energy, climate change US Energy Secretary Chu visits Los Alamos National Laboratory (12 ... Energy secretary visits Sandia lab |
Disclosing Energy Efficiency Washington Post, United States Each house you visit has an easy-to-understand disclosure about something that's typically unknown: its annual energy-guzzling costs. The Obama administration's top housing official, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, ... |
The Bankruptcy Files: Biofuels Go Bust The American Lawyer The credit crunch, cheap gas prices, and increased energy costs have formed a witches' brew for biofuel companies struggling to ride out the current economic storm. James Patton, Jr., chairman of Delaware firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, ... |
Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability ... PhysOrg.com, VA "There is a lot of evidence that low-income families are under tremendous amounts of stress, and we know already that stress has many implications," said lead author Gary W. Evans, the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology in the Departments ... Poverty harms children's brains |
UF student missing in Africa Gainesville Sun, FL (handout photo) Thad Hammond Owens is studying in UF's three-month wildlife ecology program in Namibia. The incident happened Thursday afternoon when a group of students visited the Kunene River, which borders Namibia and Angola. ... |
Progress Energy awards work to KBR unit BE&K Bizjournals.com, NC Progress Energy Carolinas Inc. has chosen BE&K Construction Co., part of publicly traded KBR Inc., to build a new power generation facility at the Richmond County Energy Complex. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. ... KBR Awarded Contract by Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. for ... |
Biofuel Production Threatens Water Supplies FOXNews The production of bioethanol may use up to three times as much water as previously thought, a new study finds, becoming the latest work that could burst the biofuel bubble. A gallon of ethanol may require up to more than 2100 gallons of water from farm ... Aventine Goes Down the Drain, Another Study Finds Ethanol Drives ... |
Governor's energy plan remains alive San Jose Mercury News, USA Jim Gibbon's energy bill alive by re-referring it to another committee with no recommendation. The Senate Energy, Infrastructure and Transportation Committee referred Gibbons' SB395 to Senate Finance for further discussion. Gibbons says SB395 would ... Gibbons??? energy bill still on the table |
 Seattle Times | State Leaders Fire Back Amid Criticism of "Secret" TransAlta Deal KELA, WA The state Department of Ecology says they???ve routinely used mediation to produce agreements that would be derailed by lawsuits if the talks became public. State leaders also stress the proposed agreement still faces extensive public review. ... Open records loophole invites public distrust Wash state's deal with coal plant sparks outcry Gov. Gregoire must lead Washington beyond its reliance on coal |
New Generation Biofuels airs 'going concern' issue EnergyCurrent, TX Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqCM: NGBF) has included a "going concern" qualification in its consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2008. The company's annual report on Form 10-K, ... |
State agency offices pollute creek in Vancouver Seattle Post Intelligencer City workers discovered this week that a sewer line from the building housing the regional offices of the state Department of Ecology and Department of Fish and Game, and a small US Army Corps of Engineers contingent, was mistakenly connected to a ... Environmental agency offices pollute Wash. creek Sewer spill's trail led to environmental agency???s office State agency offices pollute creek in Vancouver |
Valero becomes investor in Texas renewable energy firm Bizjournals.com, NC Valero Energy Corp. has become the lead investor in Terrabon LLC, a company that is in the development stages of a new technology that can convert biomass into a renewable gasoline. The value of Valero???s (NYSE: VLO) investment in the privately held ... |
Byproducts of Biofuels Could be Economically Viable for Growers Agricultural Research, MD By Alfredo Flores Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found environmentally and economically sound uses for the byproducts of biofuel production. Animal scientist William Dozier, formerly with the ARS Poultry Research Unit in ... |
 TheDigitel | Pilot plant would accelerate SC's production of biofuels TheDigitel, SC With all the attention they get, you???d think they???re the only way to make a biofuel. But there???sa lot of other, better ways to make a biofuel using crops South Carolina is much better at growing ??? if only researchers could figure out how. ... Alternative fuels tied to pilot facility |
UGA explores Brazil's biofuels research Red and Black, GA "Right now, most of the US makes its ethanol from corn, but to develop biofuels in a sustainable way, we have to develop second generation biofuels," Lee said. That means taking plant materials and breaking down its cellulose into constituents and ... DJ Unica To Issue Brazil Main Cane Crush Estimate At End Of April |
 Business Gazette | Biofuels on fumes Business Gazette, MD by Rebecca McClay | Staff Writer New Generation Biofuels delivered its first batch of milky, emulsified biofuel this month to Delta Chemical Corp. in the Curtis Bay industrial area of Baltimore. In sharp contrast to the black tea-like liquid that ... Soy biofuel keeps on rolling in Alaska USDA Increases Soy Export Forecast |
 Citizen | IEA Cuts 2009 Oil-Demand Forecast Wall Street Journal By SPENCER SWARTZ LONDON -- The International Energy Agency on Friday cut its 2009 world oil demand forecast by a hefty 1 million barrels a day from earlier projections and said the global economic recession could yet force further reductions to ... IEA lowers again its forecast for global oil demand IEA Cuts Oil Demand Forecast to Lowest in Five Years UPI Energy Watch |
Country Ecology: Ruffed grouse drumming Conway Daily Sun (subscription), NH Dave Eastman also broadcasts ???Country Ecology??? four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. He is available at: www.countryecology.com ... |
Biofuels lab draws Burr's attention in Granville The Daily Dispatch, NC Richard Burr urged the Biofuels Center of North Carolina to make a presentation to the US Department of Energy to get the federal agency to make a multi-year commitment to developing substitutes for petroleum. "We've got to decide whether we want to ... |
Decoded algae could aid biofuel, climate work San Francisco Chronicle, USA Scientists in laboratories at Moss Landing and Walnut Creek have decoded the genes of two widely varied species of ocean-dwelling algae, finding promising evidence of their ability to resist global climate change and clues to new sources of biofuels ... |
 The Tech Herald | Biofuel corn fields threatened by global warming says report The Tech Herald, IN by Rich Bowden - Apr 10 2009, 04:40 In yet another blow to the burgeoning biofuel industry, a report released Thursday has found that increased temperatures due to global warming could damage the growing of corn in the US Midwest and South by as much ... |
 KATU | Energy blamed more than ethanol for food prices San Francisco Chronicle, USA Between 22 and 36 percent of the overall increase in food prices can be traced to the rising cost of traditional energy sources such as gasoline, diesel and electricity, according to the report. Virtually every step of food production - from planting ... CBO finds higher energy costs forced up food prices Report: Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs Ethanol Has Little Impact on Food Prices According to CBO |