Fuel Scientists See Drawbacks to Clean Hydrogen
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Shell Plans Cleaner Second Generation of Biofuels
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Green Olympics Underway
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Nigeria to Electrify 200 Villages with Solar Energy
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Why Coal-Rich US is Seeing Record Imports
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Look Good, Save the Earth
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California Law Bans Mercury from Kids' Vaccines
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Extinction Crisis For Amphibians
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SunOpta Signs Joint Agreement With Royal Nedalco
SunOpta Inc. (NASDAQ:STKL; TSX:SOY) has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Royal Nedalco, based in the Netherlands, one of the largest ethanol suppliers in Europe. Under this agreement, SunOpta will license Nedalco’s patented pentose fermenting yeast for the production of cellulosic ethanol in North America and will work with Nedalco to include SunOpta’s technology and systems for cellulosic ethanol production into their planned new grain ethanol facilities in Europe. Nedalco, a subsidiary company of the Dutch sugar producer Cosun, has been producing ethanol in Europe for over 100 years and is a leader in ethanol fermentation technology. A consortium including Nedalco, Delft University of Technology and BIRD Engineering, all located in the Netherlands, have developed a patented and novel pentose fermenting yeast that is capable of high conversions of pentose sugars into cellulosic ethanol. Nedalco is adding ethanol capacity in the Netherlands and the U.K. including a 200 million litre grain ethanol plant that will produce road fuel. Nedalco plans to use their pentose fermenting yeast in this new facility. According to the company, a significant challenge in producing cellulosic ethanol is the ability to ferment both hexose sugars (glucose) and pentose sugars (xylose), since pentose sugars can represent up […]
UQM Propulsion System Evaluated for Electric Truck Use
UQM Technologies, Inc. (Amex: UQM), a developer of alternative energy technologies, has received an order from Phoenix Motorcars, Inc. of Ojai, California for a UQM PowerPhase 100 propulsion system. The system is being evaluated for use in a freeway-speed all electric pickup truck program currently being developed for the fleet market by Phoenix. The UQM PowerPhase 100 propulsion system delivers 550 Newton meters of torque and 100 Kilowatts of peak power in a lightweight, compact and energy efficient package that is ideally suited for battery electric vehicles where the system’s high energy efficiency can improve vehicle range. “The integration of an optimized electric drivetrain from UQM Technologies with nano-lithium battery technology from Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTI) could provide the impetus to rejuvenate and realize the promise of the electric vehicle vision,” commented Daniel Riegert, Chairman of Phoenix Motorcars. “We are preparing for the manufacture and distribution of several thousand vehicles over the next few years.” “We are excited that Phoenix Motorcars is evaluating our PowerPhase 100 propulsion system for use in their all electric pickup truck program,” said William G. Rankin, UQM Technologies’ President and CEO. “We expect that the pairing of our propulsion system with Altairnano’s nano-lithium batteries […]