Topic - biofuels

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General news, Cleantech

OriginOil Makes Breakthrough in Algae-to-Oil

The company says it’s developed a technology for extracting oil from algae that is simpler and cheaper than current systems.
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Cleantech, Finance

OPX Biotechnologies Secures $17.5M

Colorado biofuels company gets funding to develop its technology and open up a demonstration plant in 2011.
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General news, Cleantech, Finance

Sirona Fuels Enters Biofuels Market

The trick up its sleeve: a business model that eschews technological risk and focuses on long-term supply contracts for feedstock.
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Cleantech, Finance

GreenShift Receives Grant for Algae Biofuels

Grant will go toward development of a bioreactor that converts algae into fuel.
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Computers, General news, Internet, Finance

Khosla Ventures Partners With Hawaiian Utility

The venture firm’s portfolio companies will have their products tested by Hawaiian Electric, as the island state ramps up efforts to adopt renewable energy
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Cleantech

Shell to Clean Air With Cansolv

Oil giant unit plans to counter air pollution with its purchase of clean tech company Cansolv.
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General news, Cleantech, Finance

Cobalt Biofuels Grabs $25M

The biobutanol startup forges ahead despite powerful headwinds.
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General news, Cleantech, Finance

Malaysian Firm Funds Synthetic Genomics

One has hundreds of thousands of land and a burgeoning oil palm empire, the other tinkers with genomes to make feedstock more plentiful.
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General news, Cleantech

Clean Tech Big Three Shoot Past $20B

The benchmark industries of biofuels, wind power and solar PV each generated global revenue of more than $20 billion in 2007.
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General news, Cleantech, Finance

Algal Biodiesel Heads to Sundance

A San Francisco Bay Area company’s next-generation biodiesel proves its worth on the open road and heads to Utah.
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General news, Cleantech

GM Jumps Into Biofuels

The carmaker will partner with a little-known startup to accelerate the rollout of next-generation biofuels.
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General news, Cleantech

Mixed Signals for Biofuels

The current market may be murky, but companies using next-generation technologies should thrive in the growing sector.
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General news, Cleantech

Midwest Wants Biofuels at the Pump

Governors of Midwestern states want ethanol fuel available at 33 percent of gas stations by 2025.
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Cleantech

Amyris Closes in on $70M

Biotech startup aims to make commercial hydrocarbon biofuels using engineered microbes.
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Cleantech, Finance

Demand Outstrips Supply for Clean Energy Deals

Demand for clean energy-related investments is so high that cleantech investors are having a hard time spending all the cash they have at their fingertips, says report.
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Cleantech

Demand Outstrips Supply for Clean Energy Deals

Research group’s report details sector’s investment patterns for 2006.
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Cleantech

Biodiesel Startup Focuses on Retail Strategy

Propel Biofuels lands first round of funding and takes aim at building out "last mile" infrastructure for alternative fuels.
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Cleantech

Jatropha Gets Boost

Tropical biodiesel feedstock at core of BP and D1 Oils joint venture.
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Cleantech

Trees to Ethanol

Khosla-funded startup’s Georgia plant a test ground for cellulosic ethanol.
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Cleantech, Finance

Earthanol Raises $7.1M For Waste-to-Ethanol Plant

Startup plans to produce ethanol from cheese industry waste.
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