Food And Drink - News, Trends, Food And Drink Links
Food Industry Applications of CO2
Over decades, food industry has consumed huge sums of CO2 for short to long term refrigeration requirements in many world markets. CO2 will always remain a viable refrigerant with added value as an anaerobic agent. Some processors use CO2 for a long term, in a full range of applications in their processing plants, from IQF (individually quick frozen) apps, to use in grinding and commercial packaging with CO2 snow; to use as a gas flush agent in final consumer level packaging of food products. - Read More
Tags : co2 food industry refrigeration
Algae grown for food supplements that are 500 $ per Kg!
“This algae is grown for fairly expensive products such as dietary supplements that sell for $500 a kilogram. That price has to come down to 50 cents a kilogram to make it economically profitable to make biodiesel and it would have to be less than $1 a kilogram to be really viable. So that is where the challenge lies. Ultimately, it’s about economies of scale.” - Read More
Tags : algae algae fuel algae australia australia
17% of US energy is for Food
More than 17% of energy used in the US is for growing, processing and logistics of food
Topics : Agriculture
Seafood watch
Which species can we grill without cares, and which seafood are ecological no-nos?
Food shortages
Many parts of the world will have food shortages and related insecurities in future
Tags : food food shortage
Topics : Agriculture
?50bn investment needed for the proposed supergrid between Africa and Europe to become a reality
Tech advances combined with falling costs have made it realistic to consider north Africa as Europe?s main source of imported energy. ?The sun is very strong there and it?s very reliable. There is starting to be a growing number of cost estimates of both wind and concentrated solar power for North Africa?.that start to compare favourably with alternative technologies. The cost of moving elec long distances has really come down.? But a grid from eu to af will cost $100 billion! - Read More
Tags : grid electricity africa europe electricity europe
Topics : Finance
$ 20 billion investment in wind every year in US
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report stating that the U.S. could get 20% of its electricity from wind power by 2030. For that to happen, $20 billion needs to be invested every year for the next 20 years, bringing the two-decade U.S. wind investment total to well over $400 billion - Read More
Tags : USA wind energy wind energy usa wind energy investments energy investments energy investments usa
Topics : Wind Energy Finance