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1 hr ago | Bloomberg

Indonesian Palm Exports Seen Rising for First Time Since January

Palm oil shipments from Indonesia , the world's biggest producer, probably advanced for the first time in four months in May on increasing demand for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Ramadan, Fasting, Health, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World News, Indonesia, Malaysia,

5 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Ethanol Strengthens Against Gasoline on Record-Low Inventories

The spread, or price difference, narrowed 4.56 cents to 35.11 cents a gallon on speculation that tighter corn supplies, the primary feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S., will curtail output of the biofuel.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Chicago, IL, Agriculture, Science, Science / Technology

9 hrs ago | National Geographic

A microbiologist holds a fuel cell in a posed portrait.

Derek Lovley, a microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts, led a U.S. government-supported project to make the gasoline substitute, butanol, from microbes in the laboratory.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Biomass, Energy, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology, Science, Duke University, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Agriculture

10 hrs ago | AlertNet

on the Agenda: G8 shenanigans and life with Colombian rebels

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes Russia's President Vladimir Putin to the Lough Erne golf resort where the G8 summit is taking place in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, 2013.

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Related Topix: Vladimir Putin, Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, World News, United Kingdom, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy

14 hrs ago | Saipan Tribune

USDA offers incentives for advanced biofuels production

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday the availability of up to $98.6 million to support the production of advanced biofuels, and an opportunity for eligible producers to submit applications.

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Related Topix: US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Vegetables

18 hrs ago | The News-Gazette

Food hub, biofuel facility possibilities for Chanute

Those are two possibilities being explored, according to Mike Royse, a community innovations consultant with the Center for Community Adaptation.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Champaign County, IL, Marketing, Rantoul, IL, Home Gardening, Home

19 hrs ago | R & D

New synthesis could make biofuel more appealing for mass production

Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost effective.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Science, Biomass, Chemistry

19 hrs ago | Politico

A refuge from ethanol ire

Pro-ethanol Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee see no reason to worry about their panel's probe of the Environmental Protection Agency's biofuel mandate, which the GOP-friendly oil industry is fighting hard to repeal.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, US Politics, Lee Terry, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Doc Hastings, John Shimkus

Sun Jun 16, 2013

India Talkies

Cuba plans to build first biofuel power plant - Indiatalkies.com

Havana, June 17 Cuba plans to build a $60 million power plant fueled by sugarcane residue, marking the island's first foray into electricity generation using biofuel.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy

Lansing State Journal

MSU gets fired up about wood energy

Michigan State University planted 10 acres of hybrid poplar trees on land south of Interstate 96 this spring, fast growing trees that are destined for the boilers at the university's T.B. Simon Power Plant.

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Related Topix: Michigan State University, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

St. Petersburg Times

Teen's biofuel invention turns algae into fuel

For a fifth-grade science fair, Evie Sobczak found that the acid in fruit could power clocks; she connected a cut-up orange to a clock with wire and watched it tick.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Inventions, Science / Technology, Startups, Intel, Florida, California Institute of Technology

Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Desert Sun

Valley Voice: How can renewable energy help save the Salton Sea?

The Salton Sea has long been known as a scenic wonder and one of the most important wetlands for migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, California

Alternative Energy Stocks

California's Other Ethanol Producers

In the last two posts Pacific Ethanol and Aemetis , Inc. got all the attention. Both companies have crafted their facilities to accept lower-cost sorghum as an alternative feedstock, opening up the door to lower carbon intensity measures for their ethanol output.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Pixley, CA

Clarks Hometown News Patriot

EarthTalkA : Biofuels

Dear EarthTalk: How far along are we at developing algae-based and other higher yield sources of biofuels? - Jason McCabe, Tullahoma, TN A few years ago biofuels were all the rage.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Business Times

Palm oil advances first time in three days

Palm oil gained for the first time in three days, paring a weekly loss, on speculation that demand may increase for the vegetable oil as a biofuel feedstock.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World News, Malaysia, Life, Holidays, Ramadan

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Digital Post Production

Renewable Energy Stock Alert: Codexis (CDXS) Gains 27% on news of...

June 14, 2013 Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector research for independent investors, including biotech and renewable energy stocks issues a trading alert for Codexis, Inc. , a developer of engineered enzymes for pharmaceutical, biofuel and chemical production.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Italy, World News, Biomass

Bloomberg

Ethanol Strengthens Against Gasoline as Stocks Fall to Record

The spread, or price difference, shrank 0.36 cent to 39.67 cents a gallon two days after an Energy Information Administration report showed inventories last week fell 2.6 percent to 16 million barrels, the lowest in records going back to June 2010 and as production lagged 3.9 percent below year-ago levels.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Science Daily

Bioenergy potential unearthed in leaf-cutter ant communities

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology, colonies of leaf-cutter ants cultivate thriving communities of fungi and bacteria using freshly cut plant material.

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Related Topix: University of Wisconsin Madison, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Home Gardening, Home, Microbiology, Biology, Science

Alternative Energy Stocks

The Battle for California's Ethanol Market

For all the fuss, investors might think California's ethanol market is another Gold Rush.

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Related Topix: California, Alternative Energy, Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Construction, Tesoro

Sys-Con Media

Biofuels in Europe (Analyst Version) - the European Market for Biofuel Plants 2012/2013

Over the past five years, the European market for biofuels has become one of the largest throughout the world.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy