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Biodiesel Blowup
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009
There has been some severe headshaking around the Internet and blogsphere this past week about Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission's denial of Hawaiian Electric's request to approve a biodiesel supply contract with Seattle firm Imperium Services LLC. The Honolulu Star Bulletin reported that "a...
Science on the Forefront of Green Living
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Dr. Michael Cooney, an associate researcher at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is hard at work trying to find a new microbial method to produce fats (lipids) that could both mitigate liquid waste and serve as an alternative source of energy. Cooney has partn...