The Hawaiian island of Kona, a volcanic stump with white sand beaches and aquamarine waters in the middle of the Pacific, has long drawn adventurers and paradise-seekers. It was here that Captain James Cook was stabbed by islanders and left to die face down in the surf.More than two centuries on, new pioneers are stalking its shores. Last week a small company backed by the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell provided the first batch of a locally made oil to the American government for testing as aviation fuel. It has the combustion properties of fuel derived from crude oil but it is made from algae.

Beko Technologies has appointed Ian Woolley as regional sales manager for Beko
The South Hook terminal at Milford Haven will make Britain a big beneficiary of imports of frozen gas from Qatar as gas?s price falls along with coal?s price.
Beko Technologies has appointed Brian Gair as their new Business Development Manager to promote Beko services and products, develop the servicing and maintenance of Beko products within the UK and support the service team.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI), situated in Mayfair, London reopened this year after a
PCMS Engineering Ltd are pleased to announce a new easy access web-based front-end for clients using their highly successful Managed Oil-Analysis Service, which covers the analysis and interpretation of oil samples.
Long-awaited plans to boost the ailing car industry are to be unveiled by Lord Mandelson this afternoon, although No 10 denied that they would amount to a "bailout".
For their 2008 Christmas charity project, Beko Technologies Ltd chose to help a local scout group, Scouting was 101 years old in 2008! 1st Malvern Link Scout, based at Redland Road in Malvern received a cheque so they could buy much needed equipment for outdoor activities.
Pegler Yorkshire has overcome high summer temperatures in its radiator valve assembly line at the Pegler plant in Doncaster by installing Seeley International
Uranium prices have nearly halved while negotiations have been going on.The French nuclear energy group Areva has been awarded a licence to build and operate the Imouraren mine in Niger.
