This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by 9 to 12 percent and significantly improve environmental quality. The vehicle tax literature suggests that every 1 percent increase in vehicle taxes …
US start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company, which launched Monday, hopes to make up to 20,000 gallons per acre of fuel a year by late 2011 …
MUKESH RANJAN Nitish feels that though ethanol units might not be viable in Maharashtra, in Bihar there is a `business case' for setting up such units Bihar chief Minister Nitish Kumar has shot off a letter to Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar disapproving his contention that "exclusively ethanol producing units" …
Pakistan can use its 27million acre of saline lands to cultivate algae, which is the best alternative feedstock to biofuel production, says a researcher at the Mie University of Japan. Algae is a diverse group of simple plant like organisms, growing in fresh water and sea water, and a specific …
Property changes associated with differences in chemical structure between vegetable oil and petroleum based diesel fuel may ask for change in the engine operating parameters such as injection timing, injection pressure etc. These operating parameter changes can cause difference in performance and exhaust emissions than the optimized settings chosen by …
Recently the fuel ethanol production from crops has attracted much attention not only in the US, EU and Brazil, but also in Japan because the bio-ethanol is perceived as being "carbon neutral" and useful as a countermeasure against global warming. In fact, the Japanese government has declared that the production …
This report seeks to examine the merits of a range of different policies that offer the prospect of CO2 emissions reduction from road transport. In particular it considers the role of policies that target the
Ajay Modi / New Delhi July 13, 2009, 0:49 IST Bio-diesel companies are demanding a higher price than the government-mandated price for their product. Bio-diesel allows oil marketing companies (OMCs) to sell blended diesel. Cleancities Biodiesel, a Hyderabad-based company, with production capacity of 250,000 tonnes of bio-diesel at its Visakhapatnam …
Srinivas Sirnoorkar,DH News Service,Gulbarga: Gulbarga University has become the first university in the State to venture into biofuel production on a demonstrative scale, thus paving way for its commercial production in the future. Thereby, not only reducing the dependency on petrol and diesel, but also contributing to environment-friendly fuel security. …
Customs duty cut from 7.5% to 2.5%. THE FINANCE minister has announced that Customs duty on bio-diesel will be reduced from 7.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent and duty-paid high-speed diesel blended with up to 20 per cent bio-diesel will be fully exempted from excise duties. This, say industry …
Transport sector is an essential driver of economic development and growth, and at the same time, one of the biggest contributors to climate change, responsible for almost a quarter of the global carbon dioxide emissions. The sector is 95 percent dependent on fossil fuels. International Energy Agency (IEA) scenarios present …
The U.S. Energy Department said on Wednesday it will provide up to $408 million in funding for two projects aimed at developing advanced "clean coal" technologies. The department said it will provide up to $308 million to Hydrogen Energy International LLC in California and up to $100 million to Basin …
The first biofuels produced using new generations of biomass raw materials could be available in commercial volumes from 2010 at the earliest, German junior Environment Michael Mueller said on Monday. But the exact time scale was still unclear, Mueller said at the European Biomass conference in Hamburg. Germany is among …
States that have set the U.S. agenda on addressing greenhouse gas emissions are lining up behind a federal climate bill, fearing signs of dissent would weaken a plan that still faces hurdles. Nearly half the U.S. states have moved toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and want the federal government to …
Leading car manufacturers in India are expanding their fleets of alternative fuel vehicles to cash in on increased availability of compressed natural gas and to meet stricter emissions standards and increasing demand for cars that run on cheaper, more environmentally friendly fuels.
The climate bill nearing a vote in the U.S. House will reward farmers who plant trees or take other steps to control greenhouse gases and it will remove for five years an obstacle to corn-based ethanol, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Wednesday. Chairman Collin Peterson said negotiators hoped …
