Scientists in China have developed a process for converting plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel. Their research, published March 21 in the jour... Read more
Scientists use technique to automatically predict the amount of biofuel produced by microbes Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) h... Read more
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of York, has discovered a set of enzymes found in fungi that are capable of breaking down one of the main compo... Read more
Our method is both simple and inexpensive and at the same time achieves better results than all these other systems Alison Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying giant c... Read more
For over a decade, companies have promised a future of renewable fuel from algae. Investors interested in moving the world away from fossil fuel have contributed hundreds of millions of doll... Read more
Taken from the bottom of the marine food chain, microalgae may soon become a top-tier contender to combat global warming, as well as energy and food insecurity, according to a study by resea... Read more
Cornell University biological engineers have deciphered the cellular strategy to make the biofuel ethanol, using an anaerobic microbe feeding on carbon monoxide – a common industrial waste g... Read more
Enzyme discovery leads scientists further down path to pumping oil from plants An enzyme responsible for making hydrocarbons has been discovered by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists... Read more
Whether you have taken a side or a backseat in the discussion, the “food versus fuel” debate affects us all. Some say growing more biofuel crops today will decrease greenhouse gas emissions,... Read more
Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10. The finding of th... Read more