From the website: “Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal featuring high-quality studies describing technological and operational advances in the production of biofuels from biomass.”

A few times a month this open access journal publishes scientific abstracts in advances of Biotechnology for biofuels and we will post links to them here on alt.energy review. The latest is from November 4th, 2009:

Laboratory-scale method for enzymatic saccharication of lignocellulosic biomass at high-solids loadings

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SkyTran – The future of travel..

The city of Baltimore have begun an electric car sharing program, where Electrovaya is renting out the Maya 300 for as low as $7.50 per hour.

Car Sharing Goes Electric | Autopia | Wired.com.

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Here is a guide for everything you need to know to get started at home with solar power.

Solar Power – Solar Panels – Home Solar Energy – thedailygreen.com.

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Just needs funding

A new take on making a silk purse from a sow’s ear

As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions – NYTimes.com.

Give the gift of green this year, and help kids and others to get to work on solving out energy future.

Alternative energy and green gifts – Solar, fuel cells, biodiesel and more!.

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As Google’s Bloom Fades Will CEO Eric Schmidt Step Down: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance.

I’m curious how Google will use their search product and related applications to solve world energy problems?  Use the search tool to identify energy resources and availability?  Stay tuned.

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I was just thinking the other day, I wonder if garbage could eventually be burned so intensely it could generate energy. Well it seems this plasma could do the job. Certainly is a lot of garbage we could reclaim from landfills as an energy source.

Inhabitat » Plasma Plants Will Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy.