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Biofuels From Waste

With the increasing pressures on the production of biofuels from foods (ethanol from maize and biodiesel from edible oil) there is an increasing call for the production of biofuels from waste.

from: New York Times (click image for full story online)

 

This above article in the New York Times notes that there [...]

Some Africa Relenvant Biofuels News Links – 2

This post is a periodic one, that simply lists interesting Biofuel stories that I feel are relevant to Africa. The link will take you to an original article which will acknowledge my source of the story.

 

Nigerian company produces biofuel from sorghum – some details of a project in Nigeria that uses [...]

Omega 3 Chocolate

Yes they do really enrich dark chocolate with Omega 2 oil.

Obviously A Happy Birthday

from: BBC News (click image for full story online)

 

Running out of Space and Ink for Zeros?

from: BBC News (click image for full story online)

 

French Retail Food – Observation 7

I received many an amused smile at French and Italian breakfast tables, taking numerous close up photos of juice cartons. I was interested by the trends and approaches that were indicated by these products, present images of a selection of juices and elaborate on some of the obvious approaches.

Ethnic / Exotic – there seems [...]

UK Produced Biodiesel – Writing on The Wall

I wrote this some weeks ago but failed to post it because of my travels!

Two announcements – the closure of processing in the UK by D2 oil and the opening of a “micro biodiesel facility” that will use waste oil and jatropha oil by De-Ord Fuel indicate the over optimism around Jatropha and the [...]

Exchange with Canon re G7 failure to power up

This blog records unsatisfactory service from CANON – the email below now results in a computer response allthough their incident number is in the subject line – the question I ask is why do I only now get computer responses, am I being “put on hold”?

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I have had no response to this [...]

Can Design Developments

This article in Food Production Daily reports on a double can able to hold two different drinks and a resealable can.

from: Food Production Daily (click image for full story online)

 

The former is merely a patent while the latter is a design which has been developed with Coca Cola and should [...]

Some Africa Relevant Food Processing News Links – 3

This post is a periodic one, that simply lists interesting Food Processing stories that I feel are relevant to Africa. The link will take you to an original article which will acknowledge my source of the story.

Solutions abound for polyphenol-fortified milk: study – while adding sufficient polyphenol to milk to give it anti [...]