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EU agrees plan to cap use of food-based biofuels
Jun 13, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union agreed Friday to limit the bloc's use of biofuels made directly from agricultural products after criticism they push up food prices and add t...
York scientists provide new insights into biomass breakdown
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of York are playing a key role in the quest for a better understanding of how a recently discovered family of enzymes can degrade h...
Transforming hydrogen into liquid fuel using atmospheric CO2
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Hydrogen is often touted as the fuel of the future. But because this gas is highly explosive, it must be stored and transported under pressure in specialized an...
Researchers create microbes for direct conversion of biomass to fuel
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
The promise of affordable transportation fuels from biomass-a sustainable, carbon neutral route to American energy independence-has been left perpetually on hol...
Microalgae Capable Of Assimilating The Ammonium From Agri-Food Waste
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, the public body that reports to the Sub-Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and...
EU study assesses turning CO2 into methanol for use in transport
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
Tecnalia has collaborated in a study for the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA) on the future use of methanol, produce...
Green and yellow - straw from oilseed as a new source of biofuels
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
The bright yellow fields of oilseed rape are a familiar sight at this time of year, but for scientists what lies beneath is just as exciting. Researchers at the...
NASA's Alternative Fuel Effects Research Showcased
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
Social media followers and news media representatives from across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom came to the high desert of Southern Californi...
New, fossil-fuel-free process makes biodiesel sustainable
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
A new fuel-cell concept, developed by an Michigan State University researcher, will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while r...
Growing Camelina and Safflower in the Pacific Northwest
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
A recent study published in Agronomy Journal provides information important to farmers growing oilseed crops. In the study, camelina and safflower were grown in...
Ames Lab creates multifunctional nanoparticles for cheaper, cleaner biofuel
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has created a faster, cleaner biofuel refining technology that not only combines processes, it uses widely avail...
Plants' Oil-Desaturating Enzymes Pair Up to Channel Metabolites
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
Plant scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that certain enzymes responsible for desaturating fatty acids, the...
ACCESS II Alternative Jet Fuel Flight Tests Begin May 7, 2014
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
NASA took to the skies today -- along with international partners the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) -- to begin a ...
SE Asia palm oil problems could hit consumers worldwide
May 11, 2014 (AFP)
Southeast Asia's booming palm oil industry is facing a double blow from a recent drought and a possible El Nino weather phenomenon later this year, with analyst...
Fueling aviation with hardwoods
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
A key challenge in the biofuels landscape is to get more advanced biofuels-fuels other than corn ethanol and vegetable oil-based biodiesel-into the transportati...
Ozone levels drop 20 percent with switch from ethanol to gasoline
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol ...
Study casts doubt on climate benefit of biofuels from corn residue
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study publis...
Rethink education to fuel bioeconomy
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Microbes can be highly efficient, versatile and sophisticated manufacturing tools, and have the potential to form the basis of a vibrant economic sector. In ord...
Going nuts? Turkey looks to pistachios to heat new eco-city
Apr 18, 2014 (AFP)
Pistachios are already a key ingredient in Turkish baklava, but the country may now have found a new way to exploit the nuts known as "green gold" -- by using t...
Genetically modified tobacco plants as an alternative for producing bioethanol
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and the IdAB-Institute of Agrobiotechnology have conducted a study into genetically modified tobacco pl...
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