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  • Biomass Fuel Goes Public

    • April 16, 2011
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Alternative Energy, Energy, Fuel, News, Oil & Gas
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    The line-up of biomass-to-oil technologies continues to grow in importance as the renewable fuel firm, KiOR, back by billionaire Vinod Khosla, has filed to go public.  KiOR plans to raise as much as US$100 million in the IPO in an effort to fund the construction of a commercial-scale production facility in Mississippi.  KiOR’s process utilizes

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  • Green Technology to Produce Blue Fuel – Fountain of Black Gold or Sea of Red Ink?

    • April 5, 2011
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Alternative Energy, Energy, Environmental Sustainability, News, Oil & Gas
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    The Spanish company, Bio Fuels Systems (BFS,) has developed a process for the creation of “blue” petroleum, synthetic oil, based on photosynthesis of phytoplankton and cyanobacteria (autotrophic organisms that use the photosynthetic processes) combined with CO2 from a nearby cement factory.  The photosynthesis takes place in giant green tubes.  The product is filtered and concentrated

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  • Five Dollars Per Gallon Of Gasoline Predicted But Could Be Avoided

    • December 27, 2010
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Alternative Energy, Automotive, Energy, News, Oil & Gas, Transportation
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    Today, the former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, says Americans could be paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline by 2012.  He added the caveat: “I’m predicting actually the worst outcome over the next two years which takes us to 2012 with higher gasoline prices.”  This prediction has, understandably garnered a lot of press. 

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