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A new Colorado biodiesel plant will be supplied with used cooking oil as its feedstock. Bio Plant Technologies LLC (operating as ClearEcos) and GHP Biodiesel USA Inc. are joining forces to set up an 11.5 million gallon refinery in conjunction with ClearEcos' ...

According to Kurt Lange, CEO of Bio Plant Technologies, the oil processing portion of the plant is already built and being expanded, while the biodiesel production aspect of the facility is in the engineering/architectural/zoning and planning phase.

City centers--or even cities at all--aren’t where you’ll find the country’s poor anymore. They’re increasingly being forced into the suburbs. In 2004, a documentary called The End of Suburbia predicted that the suburbs were potentially "destined to become the slums of tomorrow" thanks to the impending threat of peak oil

There were 193 ethanol plants operating as of January, one fewer than in 2012, the EIA said. The number of plants in Monday's report included units that had been idled or temporarily shut down during 2012 as ethanol producers reacted to market forces ...

"Imagine opening a hatch in a submarine under water. The water will flow into the submarine with enormous force. It is precisely this energy potential we want to utilize." This is how German engineer Rainer Schramm describes his idea for storing energy under the sea. By using surplus energy to pump water out of a tank at the seabed, the water is simply let back in again when there's an energy

A number of projects have been proposed for the task force, such as the establishment of a public-private dialogue on removing barriers to investment in alternative energy projects. The group will also promote the dissemination of information that could ...

If decentralised renewable energy like solar power was available, Delhi could have powered itself to a large extent during the grid failure. Soon after the activists positioned themselves right outside the Ministers gate, police forces told them to leave but their ...

Aruvians Rsearch brings a research report on the Biofuel Usage in the Armed Forces. The report is a complete analysis of how the armed forces have shifted focus from petroleum to biofuels. Case studies illustrate how the use of biofuels is benefitting the ...

Schools and universities in particular, but also other government buildings, are ideally suited for solar power. Only recently, a Conergy carport plant was connected to the grid on the campus of the University of Almería, for instance. We also see great potential ...

The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations are helping small communities with their water infrastructure needs in southern Oklahoma. In north-central Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation's focus is on power generation, as the Tulsa World's Jarrell Wade reports: ...

The Taliban have denied massing forces for an attack on the Kajaki hydroelectric scheme in the southern Helmand province, at a time when responsibility for construction work and security is shifting from American to Afghan control.

Brussels (dpa) - European authorities have carried out surprise inspections in the oil industry amid suspicions that "several companies" illegally joined forces to raise prices for consumers, the European Union said Tuesday.The firms concerned are "active in and providing services to the crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels sectors," the European Commission said in a statement, without

The Taleban have denied massing forces for an attack on the Kajaki hydroelectric scheme in the southern Helmand province, at a time when responsibility for construction work and security is shifting from American to Afghan control. After years of investment ...

The Green Party of BC joined forces Thursday with the province's renewable energy sector to offer an alternative to an economy driven by fossil fuels, such as the massive export of liquefied natural gas.