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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
No CommentsThe 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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The “Switchgrass” Feedstock – Is it Possible to Fool Mother Nature?
- March 18, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Alternative Energy, Energy, Food, News
This week, two new announcements were published. The first was that PepsiCo had developed a 100% plant-based bottle. The second was that Google Ventures had invested an undisclosed amount of Series B funding in CoolPlanet Biofuels, a start-up that makes biofuels from plant waste. The link seems to be switchgrass, or Panicum virgatum, a prairie grass
