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Biogasoline and the search for renewable fuels that fit better

March 26, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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biofuels, biogasoline, ethanol, infrastructure, markettransformation, oil, Virent

Today Shell and a small biofuels start-up called Virent announced their collaboration on "biogasoline." According to the press release (here's the link to the free press kit): Virent's BioFormingTM platform technology uses catalysts to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules...continued

Renewables and the New Year

December 31, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, globalwarming pollution, infrastructure, markettransformation, newyears, renewableenergy, transmission

My New Year's resolution is to start thinking big. This is harder than it sounds given that the technologies I think about, renewable energy technologies, each generally provide less than 1 percent of the markets that they serve (and the...continued

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Director of Renewable Energy Policy
New York City
I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...
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