May 5, 2008 A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of government, academic and industry researchers has announced. The fungus T. reesei rose to dubious fame during World War II when military leaders discovered it was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘biofuel’
Turning Fungus Into Fuel: Organism With Taste For Olive Drab Shows Promise For Greener Energy
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, technology, tagged biodiesel, biofuel, biofuels, carburanti, cellulose, diesel, enzyme, fuel, fungo, fungus, gliocladium roseum, idrocarburi, mico diesel, micodiesel, montana, mushroom, patagonia, strobel, sugar, T. reesei rose on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SunDiesel – made by CHOREN
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, resource, science, sustainability, technology, tagged biocarburanti, biofuel, biomass to liquid, biomasse, btl, carburante, choren, climate, CO2, combustibile, daimler, diesel, enviroment, fischer, fischer-tropsch, freiberg, fuel, germania, germany, legno, mercedes, paglia, sassonia, shell, sundiesel, tropsch, volkswagen, wood on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Renewable, synthetic automotive fuels will guarantee future mobility. Synthetic biofuels, also known as BtL fuels (Biomass to Liquids), are largely CO2-neutral and therefore play a major role in protecting our environment and climate. SunDiesel®, one of the range of SunFuel® products, is currently being introduced to the public arena in conjunction with Daimler AG and [...]
European Road Transport Research Arena TRA 2008
Posted in cooperation, ecology, energy, international organization, science, society, technology, tagged ambiente, auto, biocarburanti, biofuel, cars, climate change, CO2, combustibili, ecologia, ecology, energia, enviroment, EU, fonti rinnovabili, FP7, idrogeno, petrolio, pollution, potocnik, settimo programma quadro, TRA, transport, trasporti, vehiles on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Europa AudioVisualService TRA 2008 will be a golden opportunity for EU road transport stakeholders and researchers to discuss new strategies, completing the process that began at Goteborg’s TRA 2006 of creating a true ‘European Road Transport Research Arena’. Focused on ‘integration’, TRA 2008 will coincide with the implementation phase of the seventh EU Research [...]
Biofuels starving our people
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, international organization, people, resource, society, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alan garcia, biofuel, bolivia, crisis, energy, enviroment, evo morales, food, hunger, peru, poverty, riot, rising price, UN on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Gato Azul via flickr the Guardian, April 22 2008 “How important is life and how important are cars? So I say life first and cars second.” In his UN speech, Morales [Bolivian president] called for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to take action against the biofuel industry “in order to avoid [...]
How much biofuels contribute to higher food prices?
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, salute, security, sicurezza, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alimentation, émeut, biocarburanti, biofuel, céréales, cereal, cereali, cibo, ethanol, faim, fame, FAO, food, pauvreté, prices, riot, rivolte, UN on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video by mdr+ design via youtube The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries [...] But now a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, with political leaders [...]
FAO Hunger Map
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, health, international organization, ong, people, resource, risorse, salute, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged biofuel, emergency, FAO, food, hunger map on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
9 April 2008, New Delhi Urgent measures required to reduce impact of high food prices on the poor. “World food prices have risen 45 percent in the last nine months and there are serious shortages of rice, wheat and maize,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said. A combination of factors, including reduced production due to climate [...]
