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For Lower Gasoline Prices, We Need E100 Engines, Not the Keystone XL Pipeline

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

That was the message the E100 Ethanol Group (E100EG) gave to a panel of EPA/NHTSA officials at a hearing on the proposed 2017-2025 fuel economy standards in San...

Scania Switches to Fossil-Free Fuel in Internal Transport Services

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Scania is now taking a further step in its efforts to reduce the climate impact from its own operations. Using renewable bioethanol as a fuel rather than fossil...

Commercialization of Advanced Biofuels to be Key Theme at BIO World Congress

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Biofuel and biobased product company executives, scientists and government officials from across the globe will speak in breakout sessions at BIO's 9th annual W...

Is Seaweed the Future of Biofuel

Mar 07, 2012 (SPX)

As scientists continue the hunt for energy sources that are safer, cleaner alternatives to fossil fuel, an ever-increasing amount of valuable farmland is being ...

Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural lands

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production ta...

ZeaChem Signs Contract to Develop Drop-In Advanced Biofuels

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

ZeaChem has announced that it has successfully completed contract negotiations to receive its portion of a $40 million grant from USDA's National Institute of F...

Cool Planet BioFuels Announces a Major Advance in Renewable Cellulosic Gasoline

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

Cool Planet BioFuels has announced that it has made a major breakthrough in converting biomass to gasoline. The Company achieved 4,000 gallons/acre biomass to g...

OriginOil Study Concludes Algae Producers Can Make Gasoline and Diesel

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

OriginOil has announced a new company study indicating for the first time that algae producers worldwide can now make transportation fuels cost-effectively them...

American Palm Oil Council Discusses Palm Oil Industry's Impact on Malaysian Ecosystem

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

A number of environmental groups have unfairly and inaccurately misled the public about the palm oil industry's positive efforts to minimize environmental impac...

Sapphire Energy to License Earthrise Nutritionals' Spirulina

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

Sapphire Energy has announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with Earthrise Nutritionals LLC, a producer of spirulina and spirulina-based products fo...

Iowa State, Ames Lab chemists aid study of mutated plants that may be better for biofuels

Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)

Genetic mutations to cellulose in plants could improve the conversion of cellulosic biomass into biofuels, according to a research team that included two Iowa S...

Biofuel goals could change U.S. farming

Feb 29, 2012 (UPI)

Meeting U.S. federal biofuel production targets could dramatically change a majority of the country's agricultural landscape, researchers say. A study published...

Green fuel versus black gold

Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)

A life cycle assessment of growing crops for fuel as opposed to refining and using fossil fuels has revealed that substitution of gasoline by bioethanol convert...

Biofuel said a sustainable fuel source

Feb 24, 2012 (UPI)

Growing crops for fuel as opposed to refining fossil fuels and substituting bioethanol for gasoline is a sustainable energy strategy, Japanese researchers say. ...

Plant toughness: Key to cracking biofuels?

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Along with photosynthesis, the plant cell wall is one of the features that most set plants apart from animals. A structural molecule called cellulose is necessa...

Maize hybrid looks promising for biofuel

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have identified a new contender in the bioenergy race: a temperate and tropical maize hybrid. Their...

Man-made photosynthesis to revolutionise food and energy production

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

Improving natural photosynthesis to make new fuels and boost crop production is the focus of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fund...

Taking biofuel from forest to highway

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

The world is moving from a hydrocarbon economy to a carbohydrate economy, according to University of British Columbia biofuel expert Jack Saddler. He is present...

Improving logistics of biofuel raw materials

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

If the increased use of biomass to produce alternative fuels is to become a reality, more attention needs to be paid to logistics - how, for example, biomass ra...

ORNL explores proteins in Yellowstone bacteria for biofuel inspiration

Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)

Studies of bacteria first found in Yellowstone's hot springs are furthering efforts at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center toward commercially v...