Tag: aviation
“Wrongly claiming #biofuels=less chicken wings?”
Tweet Today on Twitter: GrowthEnergy: Wrongly claiming #biofuels=less chicken wings? We’re calling out Nat Chicken Council for many penalities: Sean_OHanlon: Business Aviation and the rise of #Biofuels – http://t.co/z6A8WnmG PlattsPetchems: Why the growing concern of fraud surrounding waste-derived #biofuels? Stream Platts’ podcast at: http://t.co/eY67dYP5 Novozymes new CEO says #biofuels may supply 90% of revenue.
Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013
Tweet A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we reach the end of 2012? Not the intrepid USS Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and peer into the murky fogs of 2013. As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation [...]
Qatar University scales up their aviation biofuels research project
Tweet In Qatar, Qatar University is scaling their aviation biofuels project up to 25,000 liter tanks with the hope that a pre-commercialization pilot plant will be constructed with 1.5 million liter tanks in the near future. The project has isolated cyanobacteria and micro algae that are unique to the waters of Qatar that are capable [...]
UK Government wobbles on including international aviation emissions in carbon targets
Tweet In the UK, Green Air Online is reporting that the UK government is equivocating on whether to include international aviation emissions, and aviation emissions as a whole, in the national carbon budgets. “A possible scenario could be for the government to accept inclusion of international aviation emissions in principle but wait on developments with [...]
Aviation industry working to move past food-based biofuels
Tweet In Germany, the executive director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative told Reuters at the ILA air show going on in Berlin this week that the industry is focused on looking at second generation biofuels so as to avoid conflict with food crops when looking to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel. [...]
Fly the Bio Skies: 10 Milestones in the Summer of Aviation biofuels
Tweet As we head into the Labor Day holiday and we look back on a big summer for biofuels development, there has been the Summer of Algae II underway for the past couple of weeks. There’s been the drought, and the policy fight over the Renewable Fuel Standard. But in many respects, its been a [...]
“Does your plan for energy Independence include renewable energy sources?”
Tweet Today on Twitter. wasteoilrecycle: Administration commits to investment in #biofuels. EIAgov: Have an #energy data question? U can ask @EIAgov WCCSEA: Did you know that over 1,500 commercial flights have used #biofuels already? The @USNavy is working w/ @UWMadison to test it out too! Water_Warrior87: @EricForSenate Does your plan for energy Independence include renewable [...]
“Vt joins 6 other states suing for cleaner fuel standards.”
Tweet Today on Twitter. nitrogencycle: Vt joins 6 other states suing for cleaner fuel standards Strong market signal for advanced/cellulosic #biofuels. iepacleanenergy: EPA #Aircraft Rule Could Bolster Industry Bid To Develop Advanced #Biofuels AviPlatform: Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Airline Biofuels | Fox Business Earthnik: @Unusual_Plants True. You can’t “feed the world” when wasting valuable [...]
“Biofuels likely a “game changer” for military, commercial aviation.”
Tweet Today on Twitter. CaterComRox: #Biofuels likely a “game changer” for military, commercial aviation @AOLEnergy GreatPlainsInst: Diverse Coalition Calls for Maintaining Key Biofuels Policies: GlobalEcoGuy: Globally, ~60% of crop production is fed to people, 35% to animals, and 5% to biofuels. In Midwest ~15% of crop fed to people. tovatech: Squeezing All the Ethanol You [...]
UK government mulls adding aviation emissions to national carbon targets
Tweet In the UK, Green AIr Online is reporting that the Committee on Climate Change has advised the UK government to include both aviation and marine emissions in the country’s overall 2050 carbon targets. In part, the new policy, the CCC contends, would add pressure on airlines to meet their self-imposed target of holding industry [...]
