Today?s momentum in food prices may be signaling a new era of even higher food prices in the future. Supplies of agricultural commodities are expected to tighten further as worldwide populations g...

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This lab manual was developed by instructors for the course Introduction to Biodiesel Fuel. It contains a variety of procedures and tests, including titration of used oil feedstocks, neutralization...

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This report reviews the drivers around the recent rush to biofuels and provides a snapshot of this technology and its potential. It also attempts, using a ?systems thinking? approach, to reframe the...

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From 1978 to 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy?s Office of Fuels Development funded a program to develop renewable transportation fuels from algae. The main focus of the program, know as the A...

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Retail food prices measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food have begun to accelerate and are beginning to approach rates of increase last seen in mid2004. Critics of renewable fuels...

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