The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on December 16, 2022, notified that the Central Motor Vehicles (Twenty-fourth Amendment) Rules, 2022 will further amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989. The following has been amended- In rule 115, in sub-rule 18, in clause (ii), for the existing Table 2, …
Recently, biodiesel has been receiving increasing attention due to its less polluting nature and also because it is a renewable energy resource. Mostly, biodiesel is prepared from edible oils like soybean, rapeseed and sunflower through out the world. Attempts have been made for producing biodiesel with non edible oils like …
As global prices escalate, Argentina plans to quintuple production of soyabean diesel by 2010. It will dramatically change agriculture and the environment.
A seminar on Green Chemistry was organised by Department of Chemistry, Arya Vidyapeeth College on June 28. Dr BK Das, Prof in Chemistry, Gauhati University delivered a popular talk on the recent developments in this new upcoming subject. He described the application of Green Chemistry in industrial and research areas …
The final press conference of the meet was postponed by an hour and a half because there were disagreements on the final document to be read by DG Diouf. According to fao sources, the dispute was to do with biofuels and the liberalization of agricultural trade. The delay did not …
The time has come to act fast to replace, over a reasonable period of time, our dependence on imported crude oil. M. PERIASAMY Jatropha, a plant that can be used to produce bio-diesel, is cultivated on the Karunya University campus in Coimbatore. A file picture. THE global oil crisis is …
Government efforts to explore new vistas of alternative energy and overcome energy crisis has been further strengthened with a bio-diesel project launched by the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB). A pilot project to electrify a village using bio diesel on the basis of self-generation is underway in Goth Umar Din …
European Union trade officials have launched an investigation into whether imports of U.S. biodiesel break international trade rules because of subsidies, the EU's executive Commission said on Friday. A European Commission statement said examination of complaints lodged by European industry found an investigation was warranted. "Sufficient evidence was provided of …
Convenience store operator Seven-Eleven Japan Co said Monday that it will test the use of biodiesel fuel made from recycled cooking oil in delivery vehicles in Hokkaido for three months through the end of August. In the biggest test on biodiesel use in Japan, waste cooking oil will be collected …
The Boston GlobeAmid concerns the planet is warming, the market for clean, green technology is beginning to show signs of overheating, too. "I call it the global warming bubble,' said Bob Metcalfe, who knows something about bubbles. An inventor of the ethernet and founder of Marlborough, Massachussets networking company 3Com …
The current biofuel policies of rich countries are neither a solution to the climate crisis nor the oil crisis, and instead are contributing to a third: the food crisis. In poor countries, biofuels may offer some genuine development opportunities, but the potential economic, social, and environmental costs are severe, and …
Earthrace, a 78-feet trimaran, set off on a voyage from Sagunto in Spain on April 27 to circumnavigate the globe on biodiesel. By March 8, it covered 4,200 nautical miles (7,778.4 km) and reached Puerto Rico where it refuelled, fixed the toilet and repaired an inspection hatch on the fuel …
Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change could trim output of some US crops like corn in coming decades, but increase yields from other crops like soybeans, government scientists said on Tuesday. US corn output dips and rises from year-to-year but has risen overall as farmers use new seeds and …
Fuel From The Fields: A Balance-Sheet What are biofuels? Made from renewable sources, biofuels promise a viable, eco-friendly substitute to fossil fuels. Can be made from a variety of crops like maize, sugarcane, beetroot, palm oil, jatropha-anything that is rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Typically, blended with petrol or diesel. …
Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE), has announced that its entire sub 100 HP range of Massey Ferguson and TAFE tractors, barring one model, has been made compatible for use with bio diesel. These tractors can use the current 5% blend of regular diesel with diesel produced by esterising vegetable …
Canada's plan to ensure that gasoline contains 5 percent ethanol by 2010 won support in the House of Commons on Thursday despite increasing concern about the impact of biofuels on world food supplies. The legislation, which also calls for diesel to contain 2 percent renewable fuels by 2012, passed a …
Bioethanol and biodiesel are coming under increased criticism for diverting food resources and driving up food prices across the world. Second-generation biofuels are gaining credibility as a solution. Praj Industries has achieved a major breakthrough technology for the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic feedstock, creating an alternate agri-waste feedstock for …
The nascent biofuels industry that dawned in the aftermath of massive meltdowns of polar icecaps and Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels, tsunamis and unprecedented droughts in some regions with attendant floods in others, has already witnessed much tumult in its short history of under a decade. At the core of …
That's what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, commands for a two-hour, personally escorted tour of what may be the most famous family-owned pastures in America. Polyface is a centerpiece of Michael Pollan's best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma: A History of Four Meals, a treatise against the health …
