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- Air New Zealand Sustainable Biofuel Test Flight Update
- EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week. The jatropha-based fuel to power one of four engines on the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400, has arrived at the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, UK, for testing...
- Research articles 2008-10-29
- Biofuels, food crops straining world water reserves: experts
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Burgeoning demand for food to feed the world's swelling population, coupled with increased use of biomass as fuel is putting a serious strain on global water reserves, experts said "If we look at how much more water we will need for food and how much more...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Brazil's biofuel plane fleet grows
- BOTUCATU, Brazil AFP — Brazilian biofuel, already available for nine out of 10 cars on the roads, is also keeping a small but growing fleet of aircraft aloft, the company making them says. Some 200 single-engine, single-seat Ipanema planes made by Neiva, a subsidiary of Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer,...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Los Angeles Business Journal Profiles OriginOil
- City's Official Business Magazine Introduces OriginOil in Full-Page Article LOS ANGELES -- OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, reported today that the weekly Los Angeles Business Journal has featured...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Energy alternatives: can they make a significant difference?
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS OF the world's oil supplies reaching a peak and then declining have helped to fuel financial speculation in crude oil and driven prices to record highs. They have also helped to raise expectations that alternative sources of energy--everything from ethanol and biodiesel to nuclear, solar,...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Biofuels crushing the poor
- "RUINOUS" agricultural policies forced on poor farmers by Western governments are a prime cause of the global food crisis, the charity Christian Aid said today. Wealthy countries have subsidised food imports into poor countries forcing local producers out of business. The food shortages now threaten 100 million people...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Biofuels behind food price hikes: leaked World Bank report
- LONDON AFP — Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday. The daily said the report was finished in April but was not published to avoid embarrassing the US...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific
- Jun 30, 2008 Airbus Airbus began transporting A320 segments from Hamburg to the new Tianjin FAL, where the first aircraft headed for Sichuan Airlines will be assembled starting in August for delivery in the first half of next year. Airbus will hold 51% of the Tianjin joint venture...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Medvedev blames the West for global economic woes
- SAINT PETERSBURG AFP — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday blamed Western countries for the world's current economic woes and said Russia's vast energy reserves could be part of the solution. Speaking at a meeting of high-powered business executives in Saint Petersburg, Medvedev said the United States was behind...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- World leaders struggle to agree food crisis plan
- ROME AFP — World leaders battled Wednesday to agree on how to tackle the global food crisis, making multi-billion dollar aid pledges but struggling to agree notably on biofuels, sources said. In a draft of the final declaration to be agreed Thursday, obtained by AFP, they vowed to use...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- Brazilian president defends biofuels at UN food summit
- ROME AFP — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday defended biofuels, saying they could be an "important tool" against food insecurity, at the start of the UN food summit on spiralling prices. "Biofuels are not bandits," he said. "To the contrary, if they are produced in...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Global food prices will ease, but stay high: UN
- PARIS AFP — Global food prices will fall from record peaks in the next few years, but the cost of feeding the family will still be far higher than in the past decade, an international study forecast on Thursday. The price bubble has added to the number of people...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Inflation fuels action: beset by commodity inflation linked to federally mandated biofuel production, industry players get politically active, call for change
- With the November elections less than seven months away, soaring food inflation is emerging as one of the most urgent issues confronting the nation, prompting lawmakers, presidential candidates and foodservice industry officials to promote legislative remedies. Armed with proposals that would freeze domestic corn-based ethanol production at current levels,...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Food/fiber/biofuels chain chart
- The Agricultural Council of America ACA unveiled a new flow chart showing the many activities and industries involved in supplying the nation's consumers with food, fiber and biofuels. The unveiling was made at the annual Celebration of Agriculture dinner held in USDA's Whitten Building, Washington, D.C., last March. "The...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Brazil's landless farmworkers launch 'Red April' offensive
- BRASILIA AFP — The Landless Workers Movement MST on Monday announced it will occupy more farmland and raise a huge camping site in Brasilia, in its new "Red April" protest drive for urgent agricultural reform. MST leaders, who habitually launch protest movements in the month they call "Red April,"...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Airbus boss says aviation unfairly targeted over climate change
- AUCKLAND AFP — The aviation industry is being unfairly targeted over climate change and future reductions in aircraft emissions should be based on technological innovation rather than regulation, Airbus chief Tom Enders said Wednesday. "We think it's a little bit unfair that the aviation sector is singled out for...
- Research articles 2008-04-09
- German auto industry says ready for biofuel ramp-up
- FRANKFURT AFP — Germany's automakers association played down concerns Thursday that large numbers of cars would be incompatible with a new biofuel mix that the government wants to introduce to cut emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants to double the proportion of biofuel in petrol to 10 percent by...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Aircraft News - Europe
- Mar 3, 2008 Airbus, EADS, Northrop Grumman U.S. Air Force selects tanker KC-30 Tanker based on Airbus A330 MRTT over the Boeing 767. Selection of the KC-45A Tanker was announced today by the U.S. Air Force, culminating a multi-year evaluation. The program award calls for 179 aircraft with...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Company Watch - Virgin Group
- Feb 25, 2008 Boeing VP-Sales Ray Conner said here that the 747-8I is a major focus of the company's sales efforts and it hopes to secure orders for the aircraft this year. ANA, China Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are considered targets. Boeing has sold the 747-8I to Lufthansa and...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- New Paradigm in Agriculture, The
- Since man first discovered that fire could stave off the cold of winter, provide light, and cook victuals, energy has become as integral to our lives as food and water. Yet many of our energy sources, such as petroleum, coal, natural gas, and uranium ore, are finite. Renewable sources of...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
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