When Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather ascended to their anchor chairs between 1978 and 1982, 95 percent of Americans who watched network television news preferred to watch the big three. PBS’s broadcast was widely available, but seldom watched. CNN’s telecasts were new and hard to find on cable systems. The other cable networks […]
At Pearl Harbor, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Lee Soucy, crewman aboard USS Utah, first heard about Pearl Harbor before the first bombs fell. He had just had breakfast and was looking out a porthole in sick bay when someone said, “What the hell are all those planes doing up there on a Sunday? “Someone else […]
In Washington, President Obama said that building the the next generation of manufacturing, including advanced biofuels, is “how America can be number one again. And that’s how America will be number one again,’ as he presented a $447 billion jobs package to the Congress. His proposal also called for a national infrastructure bank capitalized with […]
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that’s made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, “What will […]
In Florida, OriginOil, Joule Unlimited, Terrabon and Novozymes continue to hold their early leads from Elite Eight quarterfinal voting in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. #1 Western seed Solazyme, #1 Central seed Gevo and #2 International seed LS9 are trailing in their match-ups as the last day begins in Elite Eight balloting. “The top seeds […]
In Colorado, Gevo and Mansfield Oil have signed a strategic marketing alliance for Mansfield to distribute isobutanol based fuel into the petroleum market. In addition the companies signed a commercial off-take agreement, Gevo’s second commercial off-take agreement to date and its first in the fuel industry. The agreement has three main parts. The first two […]
In New Jersey, Primus Green reports they have expanded its U.S.-based development facility in New Jersey, enabling the company to build its complete, integrated thermal-chemical process for converting biomass into gasoline. Primus plans to build its first commercial facility in Pennsylvania. The company will leverage the benefits of its partnerships with local farms for agricultural […]
In Brazil, Embraer and GE have successfully concluded their bio-jet fuel tests with an Embraer 170 jet. The series of flights, which happened in August 2011, was to benchmark the performance of E-Jets and CF34-8# engines using Hydro-processed Esters and Fatty Acids under a broad range of unique flight conditions. The flights involved powering one […]
In Canada, AMG Bioenergy Resources announced that they have incorporated a subsidiary, AMG Bioenergy Plantations, in the People’s Republic of China to facilitate the acquisition of a 133 hectare jatropha plantation and a 201 hectare eucalyptus plantation, and the associated land use rights. The LOI to purchase the land was announced last January, but as […]
In South Africa, the Industrial Development Corp. has chosen to go ahead with the Craddock Bioethanol Project. Located in the Eastern Cape, the plant is expected to start construction in early 2012, and production of 100 million liters per year to start in 2014. The plant will used sorghum for feedstock.
