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Global biofuel industry representatives defend their product at UN conference

Photo by Hummanna. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Food security is a big issue in global politics these days, and the UN is starting a three-day conference in Rome today to discuss it. Since some food crops are currently used to make fuel, representatives from the biofuel industry wanted to make their voice heard in Italy. To that end, Gordon Quaiattini of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, Rob Vierhout from the European Bioethanol Fuel Association, and Bob Dinneen of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) in the U.S. have ... Read more →

Sapphire turns microorganisms, sunlight, and CO₂ into renewable gasoline Sebastian Blanco

If it works, this could be great/terrible. Sapphire Energy announced yesterday that they have been able to take algae and mix in sunlight, CO2 and other photosynthetic microorganisms to make 91 ...

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Sapphire turns microorganisms, sunlight, and CO₂ into renewable gasoline 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If it works, this could be great/terrible. Sapphire Energy announced yesterday that they have been able to take algae and mix in sunlight, CO2 and other photosynthetic microorganisms to make 91 octane gasoline "that conforms to ASTM certification." The renewable gasoline, as Sapphire calls it, ...

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