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Algae could be a new green power source
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
As world leaders prepare to gather in France for the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change next week, global warming - and how to stop it - is a hot ...
New step towards producing cheap and efficient renewable fuels
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
A significant advance has been made in the potential to produce renewable fuels from excess atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), with the discovery of a cheap and ...
First biomethane injected into the grid at a farm in Den Bommel
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
At a dairy farm in Den Bommel (NL), the gas meter recently passed the first 10,000 m3 of biomethane injected into the grid. Since October, the plant is up and r...
Rotting wood turns Austria's poorest town into green model
Nov 28, 2015 (AFP)
Broke, remote and deprived of jobs -- just 25 years ago, the border town of Guessing close to Hungary was one of the poorest in Austria, a forgotten frontier al...
Sequencing algae's genome may aid biofuel production
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
There's an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world's oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They are so numerous that their gigantic ...
Export of wood pellets from US to EU more environmentally friendly than coal
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
As the export of wood pellets from the U.S. to the European Union has increased six-fold since 2008, questions have been raised about the environmental impact o...
How crop prices and climate variables affect yield and acreage
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
When corn prices increase farmers reap higher yields by making changes. According to a recent University of Illinois study, about one-third of the yield increas...
From dung to BMWs at green energy plant in South Africa
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
Forty minutes east of South Africa's capital Pretoria, amid the lowing of thousands of cows and the strong stink of dung, a small factory has taken on the chall...
Researchers film ants building bio-bridges with their bodies
Nov 23, 2015 (UPI)
Ants are capable of linking together their living, breathing bodies to form a sort of bio-bridge. Researchers at the University of Sydney, in Australia, recentl...
Increasing production of seed oils
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Plant-derived oils are widely used all over the world both for food and for industrial purposes. In recent years they have also attracted attention as raw mater...
Energy-efficient reaction drives ORNL biofuel conversion technology
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
A new study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains the mechanism behind a technology that converts bio-based ethanol into hydroc...
Vast energy value in human waste
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Biogas from human waste, safely obtained under controlled circumstances using innovative technologies, is a potential fuel source great enough in theory to gene...
Mt. Poso Bioenergy Day promotes diversion and drought solutions
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company and its partners, DTE Energy Services and Macpherson Energy Corporation, hosted an open house Wednesday for Kern County water agen...
Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund invests $150,000 in Manta Biofuel
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
The Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund has invested $150,000 into Manta Biofuel LLC, a company that produces crude oil from algae at a cost that is competitive wi...
Determining greenhouse gas reductions for varying forms of bioenergy
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
A study published in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy sets out to calculate the true costs and benefits associated with replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy i...
US Ethanol Producers Looking at Thin Profit Margins for 2015-16
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
Following 18 months of record earnings, the U.S. ethanol industry has rebalanced in 2015. As energy prices collapsed in late 2014, so did ethanol prices and pla...
DuPont Celebrates the Opening of the World's Largest Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
DuPont celebrated the opening of its cellulosic biofuel facility in Nevada, Iowa, with a ceremony including Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad and many other dignitaries...
Uncovering the secrets of ice that burns
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
Methane hydrates are a kind of ice that contains methane, and that form at certain depths under the sea or buried in permafrost. They can also form in pipelines...
Making green fuels, no fossils required
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
Using solar or wind power to produce carbon-based fuels, which are commonly called fossil fuels, might seem like a self-defeating approach to making a greener w...
Wood instead of petroleum: Producing chemical substances solely from renewable resources
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Petroleum might well be replaced by wood soon when it comes to manufacturing chemical substances. Research has now made significant progress towards using susta...
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