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USPTO Extends Green Technology Fast Track Program

By Cameron Chai David Kappos, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said that the deadline for filing petitions under the Green T... [More]

Deutsche Bank Appoints Clean Technology Expert

By Cameron Chai Deutsche Bank takes clean tech seriously. A fact that was driven home by the appointment of Adam Bergman as a director in the firm’s global clean technology corporate coverage group. Adam Bergman was t... [More]

OnGreen Gets $1.4M Investment

By Cameron Chai OnGreen, a web-based ‘green and clean’ market place, has announced a $1.4 million investment in raised from a fund that is jointly owned by Blue Marble Ventures in Los Angeles and China Southern Hong Kon... [More]

Cleantech Investments Decline in 2010

By Cameron Chai Third quarter investments in cleantech venture capital funding in 2010 have suffered as per a report from Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureSource. A reported 55% decrease in capital and 22% decr... [More]
Accelergy Collaborates with The Camelina Company to Create Biojet Fuel

Accelergy Collaborates with The Camelina Company to Create Biojet Fuel

Great Plains Oil & Exploration is teaming up with Accelergy Corporation in an effort to produce biojet fuel using a technology called CTBL (coal-biomass-to-liquids). [More]
NASA Launches Green Aircraft Challenge

NASA Launches Green Aircraft Challenge

The NASA Innovative Partnerships Program and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation today announced the Green Flight Challenge. The contest is a flight efficiency competition for aircraft that can average at least 100 mph on a 200-mile flight while achieving greater than 200 passenger miles per gallon [More]
Carbon Footprint of Jet Fuel Could Be Reduced by Over 80 Percent With The Use of BioFuel

Carbon Footprint of Jet Fuel Could Be Reduced by Over 80 Percent With The Use of BioFuel

Jet fuel refined from the seeds of a cousin to the cabbage could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent, a researcher at Michigan Technological University has discovered [More]
Taxibot To Allow Aeroplanes to Taxi With Engines Off To Maximise Aircraft Energy Efficiency

Taxibot To Allow Aeroplanes to Taxi With Engines Off To Maximise Aircraft Energy Efficiency

Airbus has signed a MoU with IAI to jointly explore and develop application of IAI's proposed new tow-bar-less tractor concept known as "Taxibot". The Taxibot is expected to completely remove the need to turn on the aircraft's main engines during taxi [More]
Boeing Says Biofuels for Jets Just As Good As Normal Jet Fuel

Boeing Says Biofuels for Jets Just As Good As Normal Jet Fuel

Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry today released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel [More]
Sustainable Biofuels For Aircraft Will Be On the Market in a Couple of Years

Sustainable Biofuels For Aircraft Will Be On the Market in a Couple of Years

Within three to five years, the first drops of sustainable aviation biofuels could be entering the tanks of aircraft, according to the Geneva-based Air Transport Action Group [More]
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