Energy

Out of the total land area of India, measuring 3,29 million ha. (mha), 150 m ha. is uncultivated and 90 mha. is categorized as wasteland. However this could be used for biofuel cultivation

Out of the total land area of India, measuring 3,29 million ha. (mha), 150 m ha. is uncultivated and 90 mha. is categorized as wasteland. The broad subdivision of the wasteland 1S categorized as saline and alkaline, wind and water eroded land forming consi ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 8 2009 - 6:25am

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND BIOFUELS

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND BIOFUELS PRODUCTION: PROBLEMS AND PROSECTS ASHWANI KUMAR Energy plantation Demonstration Project Centre, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004 msku32@yahoo.com. Phone 0141 2654100. Abstract ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 8 2009 - 11:06am

Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are already used completely (e.g. biomass originating from pr

Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are already used completely (e.g. biomass originating from pro ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 8 2009 - 11:11am

Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal

Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal Buzz Up Share Copenhagen, Dec 9 (IANS) The Dec 7-18 climate summit was thrown into turmoil on its second evening as developing countries came together to condemn a Danish draft of the final Copenhagen declarat ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 9 2009 - 12:32am

Groundbreaking Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Moves Toward Commercialization

GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash.- (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 13 2009 - 9:22pm

'Clean-Burning' E85 Generates More Ozone Than Gasoline

Often promoted as a 'clean-burning' alternative to gasoline that could help break our oil addiction, ethanol would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, especially in winter, according to research presented today at the American Geophysi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2011 - 8:43pm

Security and Energy: China and Central Asia

The government of China has funded and opened a pipeline going from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang province in China.  The pipeline is set to provide, "40 billion cubic meters of gas for 30 years once the line reaches full capacity." This is interesti ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 14 2009 - 7:25pm

Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered

Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered Monday, 12/21/09- Rachel Ward Options ListenMP3PodcastRSSContact UsTapes & Transcripts(Host) Climate change was the big topic in Copenhagen last week. Congress is also considering a proposal to set limits on ca ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 24 2009 - 10:51pm

Algae: The New Oil

Algae: The New Oil It's renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2 Oil prices are rising again, and they’re going to continue to do so. We’re already seeing it at the gas pump. The foreign oil and gas we have depended on for generati ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 25 2009 - 10:57am

How To Make Tobacco Popular Again- Turn It Into Biofuel

Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s.   Sustainable, activists said, because they refused to do math.   It was only when Republicans mandated and subsidized biofuels in 2005 that environmentalists realized there must be something very wrong with them an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2009 - 5:35pm