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BIO Responds to Petroleum Refiners' Criticism of US Navy Demonstration of Advanced Biofuels
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) Industrial and Environmental Section, has issued the following state...
AliphaJet Joins Advanced Biofuels Association
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
AliphaJet has announced that the company has joined the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA). Having successfully demonstrated its cost-effective catalytic proc...
New biofuel process dramatically improves energy recovery
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
A new biofuel production process created by Michigan State University researchers produces energy more than 20 times higher than existing methods. The results, ...
Researchers tap into genetic reservoir of heat-loving bacteria
Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)
The identification of key proteins in a group of heat-loving bacteria by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center could help light a f...
Denmark can triple its biomass production and improve the environment
Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)
The industry is interested in establishing a biorefinery sector in Denmark that can replace oil-based products with biofriendly materials, chemicals, energy and...
Prairie cordgrass: Highly underrated
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)...
New loo turns poo into power
Jun 28, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity and fertilisers and also re...
Malaysia's Felda Global up almost 20% on debut
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
Shares in Malaysian palm oil giant Felda Global jumped nearly 20 percent on their stock market debut Thursday, defying global economic uncertainty in the second...
Biological switch paves way for improved biofuel production
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered a mechanism that controls the way that organisms breathe or photosynthesise, potentially paving...
Toward a more economical process for making biodiesel fuel from algae
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have described an advance toward a long-sought economical process that could turn algae, like the stuff of pond scum, into a revolutionary new and su...
Carbon is Key for Getting Algae to Pump Out More Oil
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
Overturning two long-held misconceptions about oil production in algae, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory show that r...
New 'OPEC' offers sustainable smell of sweet success
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
The least appealing part of the world's most popular citrus fruits could soon be more alluring to cosmetic and drug manufacturers and, perhaps, eventually help ...
Real-life scientific tale of the first 'electrified snail'
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes the world's first "ele...
Brazil ethanol plant at risk after protest
Jun 15, 2012 (UPI)
An ambitious new ethanol plant in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is at risk after protests by indigenous people revealed the industrial ...
New energy source for future medical implants: sugar
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly effi...
Shell backs out of Brazil sugar-cane plans
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
A company set up by Royal Dutch Shell, the world's largest biofuels distributor, has nixed plans to source sugar cane from Brazilian lands claimed by a local tr...
Shell scraps biofuels plan over Brazil native land
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
A Shell subsidiary that makes biodiesel in Brazil has dropped controversial plans to buy sugar cane grown on land taken from indigenous people, Survival Interna...
Gasification may convert mesquite and juniper wood to a usable bioenergy
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
Biomass gasification is being considered as a possible technology for converting at least 10 million acres of Texas brush into biofuel, according to Dr. Jim Ans...
Steel-Strength Plastics That Are Clean And Green
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
As landfills overflow with discarded plastics, scientists have been working to produce a biodegradable alternative that will reduce pollution. Now a Tel Aviv Un...
Environmental benefit of biofuels is overestimated, new study claims
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
Two scientists are challenging the currently accepted norms of biofuel production. A commentary published in GCB Bioenergy reveals that calculations of greenhou...
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