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$10-million prize for small-scale biofuels system »

By Julie on Apr 7, 2008 in Alternative Energy | 0 Comments

Prize Capital has announced that it’s developing an innovation contest called the Biofuels Prize for small-scale decentralized renewable energy: “The Biofuels Prize will encourage innovators to develop the new technologies necessary to produce biofuels in methods that do not compete with food crops for land and water, do not encourage deforestation and do not exclude [...]

World needs alternatives to biofuels from food crops »

By Julie on Apr 3, 2008 in Alternative Energy | 0 Comments

Time Magazine takes on ethanol in this week’s cover story: The Clean Energy Scam. The article opens with a bird’s eye view over the Amazon rain forest as ranchers and farmers are doubling deforestation this year because biofuels have jacked up global crop prices. But, the Amazon is a storehouse for carbon and deforestation [...]