Wonder how the world will ever produce enough energy and cut back enough carbon? Here are 8 technology platforms for 2050 that could make the difference. Over the past several weeks, we have been exploring the topic of Transformative Technologies, and readers are busy at work this week and through September 23rd in the voting […]
In the United Arab Emirates, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, the Boeing Company, Etihad Airways, and Honeywell’s UOP announced completion of a Sustainability Assessment of the Integrated Seawater Agriculture System production of aviation biofuels and other bioresources. This study makes a significant contribution to current knowledge on the viability of using salt-tolerant plants irrigated […]
In India, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, has started the Salt Satyagraha Memorial Programme. The program will target the use of sea water of a number of halophyte crops for use in either agricultural or as bioshield. One plant, sea asparagus (Salicornia brachiata) will be looked at as a potential biodiesel feedstock. The program is […]
In January, many readers overlooked this story about the Sustainable Bioenergy Research project in the UAE, between Boeing, Honeywell’s UOP, Masdar Institute and Etihad Airways. But after articles like “Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom” made clear the importance of salt-tolerant feedstocks in the development of biofuels in a water-hungry world, readers eventually […]
A visitor to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism would have been awestruck by the massive posters touting Winston cigarettes as “the taste of freedom” that often plastered locations where posters of Chairman Stalin and his ilk has once fluttered. It looked as if Christo had wrapped the Iron Curtain in a project sponsored […]
