As the United States seeks national energy security and more environmentally friendly fuel sources, the opportunity for the nation's advanced biofuels industry is clearly extraordinary. The U.S. has the scientific lead in this industry; it has experience with ...

As the United States seeks national energy security and more environmentally friendly fuel sources, the opportunity for the nation's advanced biofuels industry is clearly extraordinary. The U.S. has the scientific lead in this industry; it has experience with ...

Coskata is a renewable energy company with developed technology for the production of liquid fuels. Based in Warrenville , Illinois , Coskata researches the application of lignocellulose as a source for producing cellulosic ethanol .Cellulosic ethanol is a type of biofuel produced ...

Europe's biofuel plans will produce more greenhouse emissions, not less. So says the first independent analysis of how Europe's 2020 targets will be met.. This would release more than twice as much carbon as Europe's cars would ...

Jatropha curcas is a shrub that bears fruits with seeds rich in oil. According to a March 2009 article in Time Magazine, the Burmese government ordered many farmers to plant jatropha without building the infrastructure necessary for fuel production, thereby ...

This "news" widely reported on 9 November 2010 is in fact nothing new! (Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels and Bioliquids in the EU - An Analysis of the National Renewable Energy Action Plans, IEEP, November ...

To calculate the true price of biofuels, we must add the direct cost of producing the fuel itself, plus the increased food costs biofuels create, plus loss of pure water used for irrigation, plus increased damage to the environment. The ...

Over 25 major public companies are producing biofuels from micro algae ... The green algae are primitive source of Plantae. Other types of algae are different from the primitive source. Oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and algae produce ...

The push to ramp up biofuel production may reduce oil imports, but it's likely to come at a high environmental cost: It will boost the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, a huge swath so depleted ...

It?s called the Flex Tek, a little gadget that has been made and sold in Brazil for several years. Ethanol is a big deal in Brazil, as they have made getting off of gasoline a national priority for over ...

E-Fuel just launched their new E-FuelMicrofusion Reactor, that allows you turn your organic waste intoethanol fuel. In US alone there is almost 1 billiontons of organic waste that could be converted to 100 billion gallonsof ethanol fuel. High tech ceramic ...

The Koenigsegg CCXR is an " Theincreasing power of the CCXR, compared with the CCX, is the result ofthe cooling effect of ethanol into the engine combustion chambers at ahigher pressure in the cylinder and the biofuel is higher octane ratingof ...

Guildford, UK Fifteen plants will be designed and built within five years, with construction expected to start on the first installation next year, TMO has announced. Replication of similar waste to ethanol bio-refineries, across all regions of the US and ...

California, United States - Transportation experts are proposing that the research and development of next-generation biofuels must be done in conjunction with the development of advanced combustion engines if those biofuels are to become a reality and long-term success in the ...

Ethanol cars are motor vehicles that make use of ethanol as their sole or main source of fuel. In comparison to vehicles that run on gasoline alone, ethanol cars are rarely any more expensive.At present, there are some liabilities ...

Ethanol conversion is a process which is used to modify a vehicle so that it can run on ethanol fuel or so that it can operate on a flex- fuel system which accommodates both regular gasoline and ethanol fuel. Some ...

Bio ethanol, or more commonly spelled as one word (bioethanol), is the same thing as ethanol, which is an alcohol created using biomass products, such as corn, sugar, and even cellulosic materials such as switchgrass or woodchips. They are, however ...

The two top ethanol producers in the world are the United States and Brazil, though Canada, China, Thailand, Columbia, India, and Australia are all beginning to catch up. Aside from this drawback, ethanol fuel may be a good alternative to ...

Ethanol 85 or E85 is a fuel which blends up to 85% ethanol with gasoline. Use of E85 has been promoted as an alternative to fossil fuels which could reduce dependence on oil-producing nations for energy supplies, although there are ...

In an effort to find a viable alternative to foreign oil, many politicians and environmental groups have been heavily promoting the advantages of ethanol fuel. Ethanol is a primarily plant-based fuel which can be produced from such sources as sugar ...

Despite ongoing concerns about the United States' vast appetite for petroleum in general and foreign oil in particular, Washington has taken only piecemeal measures to address the challenge. The EPA expects this change to save 1.8 billion barrels of ...

California -- There were once high hopes for Jatropha as a feedstock for biofuels. Last summer, BP gave up on its joint venture with D1 Oils to experiment with Jatropha in favor of traditional ethanol and cellulosic ethanol from feedstocks like ...

Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have patented a process to produce biobutanol, a fuel that can be used in existing gasoline engines without any modifications, from whiskey by-products. In utilizing waste products, the process eliminates the need to use arable ...

"Unless the EPA and the White House hold firm on the level of mandated demand, then you might as well not have a Renewable Fuels Standard. "If the EPA chose not to waive those gallons, the oil companies would have ...

Florida -- We hear so much about the ethanol blend wall, that we can be excused for thinking it is the primary wall, or threshold, out there. The Growth Energy publicity juggernaut ceaselessly reminds us that, at 10 percent blends of ...

Georgia -- After a two year delay, Range Fuels is producing methanol fuel from its commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Georgia. The company initially said the plant in Georgia would be producing up to 20 million gallons of fuel in 2008 ...

Alcohol has no place behind the wheel of a car, but a team of Scottish scientists believe it might be perfect for the fuel tank: Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University's Biofuel Research Center, according to a report in Sky ...

Ethanol fuel is an alternative fuel to gasoline. In the US, corn is primarily used to make ethanol fuel, while in other generally warmer locations, sugarcane is the preferred source of biomaterial for making ethanol fuel. It is also possible ...

Tweet . GM takes OnStar Mobile wall to wall, Nissan promises an electric sports car with the heart of the Leaf, Honda pulls the trigger on a plug-in hybrid, 2011 BMW X3 is a major redesign, ethanol fuel for cars may ...

The United States recently moved one step closer to energy independence this past Friday as the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, announced the first wave of grant money towards biofuel. While the corn ethanol ...

Ethanol and other renewable fuels must account for 7.95 percent of total gasoline sales in 2011 to meet Congress' mandate for 13.95 billion gallons of renewable fuels expected to be produced next year, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

It's what's in them -- and the fact that if it were not for transparency laws, Europe's citizens would be unaware of how vested interests have influenced the science behind a cornerstone of the continent's clean energy ...

The laundry list of sustainable biofuel crops just keeps getting longer and longer, thanks to new research that shows how to break down the hard cell walls of woody, non-food plants like switchgrass. The North Carolina team tackled one major ...

Washington, D. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the investment of up to US $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels. The final National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap released at ...

Paul Woods, chief executive of the algae-to-ethanol company Algenol, came to New York this week from company headquarters in Florida to try to scare up some money for a pilot plant in Freeport, Texas.. But Woods has a big problem ...

Two major events happened on Thursday, which 99.9% of investors didn't know about.. Today I'll tell you what these investors knew, what happened Thursday, and, most importantly, how you can profit from what's going to happen ...

One of the biofuel ventures being nurtured by Royal Dutch Shell is having a little growth spurt. That would satisfy U.S. gasoline demand for all of 2.5 seconds, and it's less than what one Shell gas station ...

The poplar tree has entered the crowded field of sustainable biofuel crops, and now it seems that China, Israel and the U.S. are racing to tap into its potential. Last fall an Israel-China research partnership was formed to develop ...

Recently the EPA acknowledged that cellulosic ethanol was not scaling up as quickly as they had hoped, so they reduced the 2010 cellulosic ethanol mandate from 100 million gallons to 6.5 million gallons. In that update, they had the ...

Tweet Energy Minister Arak Chonlatanon is being urged to speed the use of ethanol to replace petrol, as capacity utilisation remains low.....

The Environmental Protection Agency will publish data Friday showing that biofuels made from palm oil won't count towards the nation's renewable...

Getting lots of mail accusing me of RINOism. Why is it that people who support Newt believe they are backing the more conservative candidate? Where...

St. Louis, MO, January 27, 2012 -(PR.com)- Project includes student mentoring program.. . The National Science Foundation awarded $1.3 million to...

Drive by any area service station and the ever increasing gas prices are evident, with diesel outpacing even expensive premium.. . Most folks...

The president hit the road after Tuesday's State of the Union--and his next stop is Colorado.. . President Obama is speaking at Buckley Air Force...

The long-promised but perpetually fledging biofuel industry still remains a big focus of government support. The U.S. Department of Agriculture...

January 26, 2012 10:42 AM Eastern Time . LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of...

January 26, 2012 10:48 AM Eastern Time . WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biorefineries continue to make progress toward commercial-scale production of...

An independent analysis by the citizen energy-independence advocacy group Energy Alternatives for the 21st Century (EA-21) confirms the conclusions...