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DOD Energy Investments Create Long Term Certainty Cleantech Markets Crave

October 4, 2011 by Peter Lehner
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Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City It should come as no surprise that fossil fuel companies are trying to discredit their biggest competitors: the clean energy industry. Together with their allies in Congress, they are trying to use the failure of one solar company to paint the entire renewable sector as a dangerous risk.... [read more]

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Algae Away! US Navy Invests In Alternative Fuels

September 27, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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For every 50 fuel convoys deployed by the US military, one soldier dies or get injured. An astounding figure shared by Thomas Hicks, deputy assistant secretary of the US Navy for energy, at the Clinton Global Initiative meetings in New York Tuesday on a panel about innovations in green technology. The Navy, along with other branches of the military, recognizes the need to switch to alternative fuels both to reduce the risks in getting fuel into theaters of war and to reduce its exposure to price volatility. [read more]

Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They Created From Ethanol

May 31, 2011 by Robert Rapier
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Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Little’s book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t noticed, I have fallen into a pattern of putting up a new column each Monday and Thursday. Because... [read more]

Solazyme CEO Clarifies Costs

October 10, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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Prior to publishing the previous essay, U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels, the editor for Consumer Energy Report asked why I didn’t go with a more descriptive title like “U.S. Navy Pays $425 per Gallon for Biofuels.” I told him that the reason I didn’t is that the source clearly said that some of the money was for R&D, and there... [read more]

Gee whiz, algae!

September 12, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Big institutions can make mistakes, as we’ve learned, painfully, lately. (See BP, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, etc.) But when big corporations like Unilever, Chevron and Bunge  invest in a algae company that is also in business with the U.S. Navy, well, that’s a good reason to take notice. The algae company is called Solazyme and... [read more]

Solazyme’s amazing algae

March 18, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Algae are so good at producing oil from sunlight and carbon dioxide that there are, by some accounts, as many as 200 companies trying to make biofuels from algae. Some are obscure, little more than a couple of guys playing around with pond scum. Others are attention-grabbing, like Synthetic Genomics, the company led by pioneering... [read more]

Salute to green warfighters

September 9, 2009 by Doris de Guzman
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) is making sure they're fighting for our nation's cause the right way...by going green. DoD's Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) recently awarded algal-based biofuel developer Solazyme and camelina-based biofuel manufacturer Sustainable Oils contracts for R&D and manufacture of their products.... [read more]