Biofuels Association of Zambia

A new market for the UK Biodiesel sector will be announced at EBEC 2010. The Home Heating Oil Market has been estimated at 900 million litres.

The Renewable Heat Incentive (proposed April 2011) will be a major focus at EBEC 2010. Under the proposed RHI a new market for Biodiesel will be created as it will can be blended with heating oil to provide a real growth opportunity for the Biodiesel sector estimated at 900 million litres. This will stimulate significant production volumes again in the UK and sustainable growth for the industry as many investors have left this market over the last two years.

Biodiesel could become a leading market in the UK for home heating fuel.

Go to http://www.pandct.com/media/shownews.asp?ID=26096 for the full story.

In a San Diego laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum.

Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being tweaked.

Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains.

The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly efficient at converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids and oils that can be sent to a refinery and made into diesel or jet fuel.

Follow http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/energy-environment/26algae.html?scp=4&sq=biofuels&st=cse for the full story.