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Biofuel maker INEOS Bio just announced that its $130 million Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida, is producing commercial quantities of transportation fuel from cellulosic biomass that is nonfood, landfill waste.
Field tests conducted by US DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington aim to return carbon dioxide to the earth by injecting it into underground basalt formations.
This NASA video celebrates big data, and how its scientists have improved how space agency satellites collect and analyze fluorescence from Earth's flora.
Cool Planet Energy Systems has announced high-performing drop-in biofuel that is backed by investors such as Google, GE, BP, and ConocoPhillips. The company also produces as a bi-product a fertilizer that enriches soil to produce improved feedstock yields and also assists in CO2 sequestration efforts.
Americans used more natural gas, solar panels and wind turbines, and less coal to generate electricity in 2012, according to the most recent energy charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Once, all of Tesla's cars were hand-assembled "alpha builds." Now the Model S is rolling off a high tech production line located in Fremont, California.
One ship, equipped with a cutting edge LNG regasification, could overturn Russia's control of natural gas distribution in Europe. The ship's name: Independence.
Maersk Oil is offering a free online game called Quest for Oil, where players plan and manage global oil exploration, hoping to attract brainy college students.
Cody Martin, who says his beer is "made in Texas by Texans," was working as an environmental engineer when he became obsessed with becoming a brewmaster.
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