BIO FUEL

News About Bio Fuels

1,529 articles

Artificial ocean carbon recycling system turns seawater CO2 into bioplastic feedstock
Oct 22, 2025 (SPX)
Oceans absorb roughly one-third of global CO2 emissions, but extracting and reusing that dissolved carbon efficiently has remained an unresolved challenge. Unti...
Helping farmers, boosting biofuels
Oct 17, 2025 (SPX)
After harvest, farmland often sits fallow and unused until growers seed in the next crop. Soil can erode, weeds can take root, and farmers don't make any money ...
Brazil, other nations agree to quadruple sustainable fuels
Oct 14, 2025 (AFP)
"We hope to have a good number of signatories" by COP30, Brazilian foreign ministry official Joao Marcos Paes Leme told reporters in the capital Brasilia. "Othe...
Solar leaf converts CO2 and water into formate for cleaner chemical manufacturing
Oct 11, 2025 (SPX)
The team positioned the technology as a platform for sustainable manufacturing across products from plastics and paints to pharmaceuticals and toiletries. Earli...
Carmakers seek EU emissions ban rethink with biofuel push
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
In a submission to the European Commission, Europe's main auto lobby said Brussels' current emission-reduction targets were "based on outdated premises and opti...
Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
A new study from Rice University shows how to turn that waste into power. "There's an invisible river of warm air flowing out of data centers," said Laura Schae...
Pretreatment methods bring second-gen biofuels from oilcane closer to commercialization
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
In a traditional biorefinery, sugarcane is used as a feedstock to produce bioethanol fuel. These are "first-generation" biofuels - that is, fuels produced from ...
Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
Anaerobic digestion is a biological process in which microorganisms break down organic matter without oxygen, producing biogas and nutrient-rich digestate. The ...
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The technique relies on fast pyrolysis, which exposes dried biomass to intense heat in an oxygen-free chamber, producing carbon-rich liquid bio-oil, along with ...
Bacteria rewire digestive systems to turn plant waste into power
Sep 05, 2025 (SPX)
Now, a new Northwestern University study shows that Pseudomonas putida, a common soil bacterium, completely reorganizes its metabolism to thrive on these comple...
Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the renewables biofuel factory in Rotterdam that was intended to produce sust...
UK watchdog probes power firm Drax over biomass source
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) probe will cover the period from January 2022 to March 2024, as well as the company's annual reports between 2021 and 2023...
Prototype system transforms urine into solar powered fertilizer and clean water
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
"This project is about turning a waste problem into a resource opportunity," said senior author William Tarpeh, assistant professor of chemical engineering. "Wi...
Paper: Decarbonize agriculture by expanding policies aimed at low-carbon biofuels
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Climate-smart practices include techniques that build soil carbon, like cover-cropping, not tilling fields after harvest and adding biochar or finely ground sil...
Electron beam recycling turns heat resistant plastics into valuable gases
Jul 30, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Senior Principal Researcher Dr. Akira Idesaki, the QST group found that applying EB irradiation while heating PTFE significantly lowered the energy thres...
Electron beam method converts Teflon waste into reusable gases
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
The team, led by Senior Principal Researcher Dr. Akira Idesaki, found that heating PTFE while irradiating it with an electron beam reduced the energy required f...
Italy fines oil giant Eni over bioplastic market abuse
Jun 24, 2025 (AFP)
The AGCM watchdog accuses Novamont of having contracts with plastic bag manufacturers and large retailers that include "exclusivity" clauses obliging them to so...
Acid vapor boosts durability of carbon dioxide-to-fuel devices
Jun 17, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Science, the study tackles a critical challenge in CO2 reduction technology: the formation of potassium bicarbonate salts, which block gas channels...
Turning CO2 into Sustainable Fuels Could Revolutionize Clean Energy
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
An international team led by Liane Rossi, director of the Carbon Capture and Conversion Program at the Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI) and ...
Cool science: Researchers craft tiny biological tools using frozen ethanol
May 21, 2025 (SPX)
By advancing a method called ice lithography, the team was able to etch incredibly small, detailed patterns directly onto fragile biological surfaces. While tra...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.