exxonmobil Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 19:39:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 OPEC States It Doesn’t Give a Jack About Electric Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/opec-electric-vehicles-20160904/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/opec-electric-vehicles-20160904/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2016 19:39:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60555 OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), a significant world oil contributor, recently displayed overconfidence in its presence and future influence despite the rise in electric vehicles. While car companies are looking to produce more electric vehicles, OPEC expects to continue providing oil for the car industry. OPEC’s members seem entirely ignorant of the world’s […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/opec-electric-vehicles-20160904/feed/ 0 60555 Algae-Based Biofuels Not Yet Ready to Compete With Fossil Fuels, Says ExxonMobil https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-biofuel-fossil-fuels-exxonmobil-20130522/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-biofuel-fossil-fuels-exxonmobil-20130522/#respond Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37493 Algae-based fuels are still a very expensive idea and the technology behind their production is not yet ready to compete with fossil fuels, according to the latest press release by Synthetic Genomics. ExxonMobil was the company, which hired Synthetic Genomics to develop algae-based fuels back in 2009. However, the experts behind the so-called Exxon-Synthetic Genomics […]

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