In Qatar, the 2022 FIFA World Cup will use soccer balls produced in Pakistan using partially biobased materials. Designed and hand-stitched by Forward Sports in Sialkot, Punjab, the Al Rihla soccer balls have now been picked three times for the massively popular sporting event. The announcement was made by Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry […]
In Qatar, food tech Eat Just is planning to build a production plant for cultured chicken and vegan eggs. Doha Venture Capital contributed a “relevant chunk” of the financing for the $200-million plant, which will take about two years to build, Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick tells Bloomberg. The new plant will be also be […]
In Qatar, researchers at Qatar University’s Sustainable Development Centre have revealed the second phase of the Qatar Biofuel Project will research aviation biofuel from algae-based bio-crude following the first phase launched in 2012 that looked at biodiesel, bioethanol and bio-crude oil. The program will support Qatar Airways’ efforts to diversify into aviation biofuel that will […]
In Qatar, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment launched a project to produce biogas from wastes with Qatar University’s College of Engineering with the goal of using that biogas as a clean energy to power the motor vehicles. The project will study various techniques for producing biogas from waste and aims to convert vehicles from […]
In Qatar last month, we reported that Norwegian company Yara had teamed with the Qatari government on the Sahara Forest project that will use solar power and sea water to produce food crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, melon, fodder crops, freshwater, clean energy, salt, algae and for biofuel. Let’s look at this project in more […]
In Qatar, Norwegian company Yara has teamed with the Qatari government on the Sahara Forest project that will use solar power and sea water to produce food crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, melon, fodder crops, freshwater, clean energy, salt, algae and for biofuel. A commercial scale project of 4,000 hectares would supply enough power for […]
In Qatar, The World Energy Council’s (WEC) global ranking of country energy sustainability performance was released, revealing that “most of the over 90 countries assessed are still far from achieving fully sustainable energy systems.” The 2012 Energy Sustainability Index, published within the WEC’s 2012 World Energy Trilemma report, “Time to get real – the case […]
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 of […]
In Qatar, Qatar Airways is investing in the California firm Byogy Renewables, reports Bloomberg. Chris Schroeder, a senior manager with QA is quoted as saying, “We’re looking to underwrite an investment into Byogy of up to 10 percent, coupled with an off-take agreement… This will enable the company to go into the market and look […]
In California, Byogy Renewables is seeking $30 million from investors by mid-2012 in order to certify its alcohol-to-jet fuel process with ASTM and move forward with commercialization of its technology. As the company, who has a strategic partnership with Qatar Airways, doesn’t produce the alcohol itself, it will be teaming with sugar and ethanol producers […]
