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Boeing Partners with South African Airways to Turn New Tobacco Plant into Jet Fuel
Sep 03, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing , South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG have announced they are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. Thi...
Scientists create renewable fossil fuel alternative using bacteria
Sep 03, 2014 (SPX)
The development is a step towards commercial production of a source of fuel that could one day provide an alternative to fossil fuels. Propane is an appealing s...
Cenex Tank Program assists retailers offering E15
Sep 02, 2014 (SPX)
CHS has announced a new program to better enable some of the 1,400 Cenex branded locations to meet consumer demand for an E15 ethanol blend. "We are excited to ...
SG Preston Announces World's Largest Purpose-Built Renewable Diesel Plant
Sep 02, 2014 (SPX)
SG Preston (SGP) has announced the planned development of a 120 million gallon renewable diesel facility in Lawrence County, Ohio. The SGP South Point facility ...
Ceres to Expand Product Development in Sorghum and Sugarcane
Sep 02, 2014 (SPX)
Ceres has announced that the company will enhance its product development programs in Brazil and expand its development activities in biotech traits for sorghum...
VIASPACE Establishes Giant King Grass Research Collaboration With California
Sep 02, 2014 (SPX)
VIASPACE has announced that the company has entered into a research collaboration with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Division (...
Scientists produce fuel from gut bacteria, sugar: study
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
Driven by the quest for an abundant, non-polluting alternative to fossil fuel, scientists said Tuesday they had developed a method to produce propane using suga...
Water leads to chemical that gunks up biofuels production
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
Trying to understand the chemistry that turns plant material into the same energy-rich gasoline and diesel we put in our vehicles, researchers have discovered t...
Turning waste from rice, parsley and other foods into biodegradable plastic
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting. T...
Bionic Liquids from Lignin
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
While the powerful solvents known as ionic liquids show great promise for liberating fermentable sugars from lignocellulose and improving the economics of advan...
Regulations needed to identify potentially invasive biofuel crops
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
If the hottest new plant grown as a biofuel crop is approved based solely on its greenhouse gas emission profile, its potential as the next invasive species may...
Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)
Spinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists: the ability to convert sunlight into a clean, ...
Hunger for vegetable oil means trouble for Africa's great apes
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
The vegetable oil found in your popcorn or soap might not be ape friendly, and the situation appears likely to get even worse, according to an analysis in the C...
Microbe sniffer could point the way to next-gen bio-refining
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
A new biosensor invented at UBC could help optimize bio-refining processes that produce fuels, fine chemicals and advanced materials. It works by sniffing out n...
The JBEI GT Collection: A New Resource for Advanced Biofuels Research
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have unveiled the first glycosyltransferase clone collection specifically ...
Water-cleanup catalysts tackle biomass upgrading
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Rice University chemical engineer Michael Wong has spent a decade amassing evidence that palladium-gold nanoparticles are excellent catalysts for cleaning pollu...
A Win-Win-Win Solution for Biofuel, Climate, and Biodiversity
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Fossil fuel emissions release billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, which is changing the climate and threatening the sustainability of life...
In Austria, heat is 'recycled' from the sewer
Jun 22, 2014 (AFP)
Vast amounts of hot water from household appliances, businesses and factories gurgle down the drain every day, wasting not only H2O but also another precious re...
Genome could unlock eucalyptus potential for paper, fuel and fiber
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
In a collaborative effort spanning five continents, scientists have announced the complete sequencing of one of the world's most widely planted trees, Eucalyptu...
More than just food for koalas -- eucalyptus -- a global tree for fuel and fiber
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
From antiseptic oils to the construction of didgeridoos, the traditional Australian Aboriginal wind instrument, the eucalyptus tree serves myriad purposes, acco...
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