LS9 reports one-step sugar-to-diesel conversion
Drop-in fuels one step closer to parity with fossil fuels
In California, LS9 announced a major scientific breakthrough that will significantly lower the cost of producing “drop-in” hydrocarbon fuels. This breakthrough has allowed LS9 to accelerate its technology and demonstrate alkane production at pilot scale.
The discovery
In the article “Microbial Biosynthesis of [...]
Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century of Global Warming
By Brandon Keim July 29, 2010 | 1:05 pm | Categories: Earth Science, Environment
A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last [...]
Patent claims for exchange trading of royalties now allowed
San Diego, CA… Royalties or revenue participation contracts may well become a standard means of investing in the revenue growth of companies now that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a Notice of Allowance of Claims on SINIPCO Pte. Ltd.’s U.S. patent application #20080109344, now allowed, which [...]
25 Million Acres of Corn with nowhere to go?
Changes in bioenergy mix, corn productivity point to massive oversupply of acreage by 2030.
Buried inside the USDA’s Biofuels Strategic Production Report is a startling prediction from both EPA and USDA: if the Renewable Fuel Standard targets are to be met by 2022, there will be a wholesale [...]
Finland in the US
Approximately 650,000 people in the Unites States are of Finnish descent. In addition, there are thousands of professionals and students who spend at least some time in America. Finland also has its share of “snowbirds,” some 30,000 retirees who spend the winter in Florida.
There are many Finnish-American activities relating to Finland and [...]