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Stanford scientists discover a novel way to make ethanol without corn or other plants

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

Stanford University scientists have found a new, highly efficient way to produce liquid ethanol from carbon monoxide gas. This promising discovery could provide...

Trees go high-tech: process turns cellulose into energy storage devices

Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)

Based on a fundamental chemical discovery by scientists at Oregon State University, it appears that trees may soon play a major role in making high-tech energy ...

US Navy 'game-changer': converting seawater into fuel

Apr 07, 2014 (AFP)

The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel. The...

Unzipping the biofuel potential of populars

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

What began 20 years ago as an innovation to improve paper industry processes and dairy forage digestibility may now open the door to a much more energy- and cos...

Researchers Engineer Resistance to Ionic Liquids in Biofuel Microbes

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a multi-institutional partnership led by Berkeley Lab, have identified ...

Engineered bacteria produce biofuel alternative for high-energy rocket fuel

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by...

Sugar, not oil

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

No more oil - renewable raw materials are the future. This motto not only applies to biodiesel, but also to isobutene, a basic product used in the chemical indu...

Algae may be a potential source of biofuels and biochemicals even in cool climate

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Algae are organisms useful in many ways in the transition towards a bio-economy. Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce biochemica...

Maverick and PPE To Make Small-scale Methane-to-Methanol Plants

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Maverick Synfuels and Plant Process Equipment have formed a partnership to manufacture and sell small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants. These skid-mou...

Boeing, South African Airways Explore Ways for Farmers to Grow More Sustainable Biofuel Crops

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Boeing is launching an initiative with South African Airways (SAA) and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) to expand opportunities for "smallhold" ...

Entomologists update definitions to tackle resistance to biotech crops and pesticides

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

Resistance to pesticides has now been recorded in nearly a thousand pest species, including more than 500 insects, 218 weeds, and 190 fungi that attack plants. ...

Plants convert energy at lightning speed

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

A new way of measuring how much light a plant can tolerate could be useful in growing crops resilient to a changing climate, according to scientists from Queen ...

Newly discovered catalyst could lead to the low-cost production of clean methanol

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

An international research team has discovered a potentially clean, low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, a key ingredient in the production of p...

MSU advances algae's viability as a biofuel

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Lab success doesn't always translate to real-world success. A team of Michigan State University scientists, however, has invented a new technology that increase...

Methane leaks from palm oil wastewater are a climate concern

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

In recent years, palm oil production has come under fire from environmentalists concerned about the deforestation of land in the tropics to make way for new pal...

Team converts sugarcane to a cold-tolerant, oil-producing crop

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-produc...

Sustainable use of energy wood resources shows potential in North-West Russia

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

Nowadays, humanity faces many challenges; the most serious are poverty, the growing demand for resources and the deterioration of the environment. In order to s...

Pond-dwelling powerhouse's genome points to its biofuel potential

Feb 23, 2014 (SPX)

Duckweed is a tiny floating plant that's been known to drive people daffy. It's one of the smallest and fastest-growing flowering plants that often becomes a ha...

UK failing to harness its bioenergy potential

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

The UK could generate almost half its energy needs from biomass sources, including household waste, agricultural residues and home-grown biofuels by 2050, new r...

Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel

Feb 17, 2014 (SPX)

Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researche...