Scientists discover variant plants with straw that is more easily digested for biofuel production Critically the plants are not significantly smaller or weaker than normal plants The discove... Read more
As part of the aviation industry’s efforts to use biofuels to drive down its carbon footprint, Boeing has announced a collaboration with South African Airways and SkyNRG to produce aviation... Read more
A new, simple catalyst, developed at the University of Twente, improves the quality of this oil before it is even transported to the refinery. Oil produced from biomass – such as wood... Read more
It could be the most important portable power plant you’ve never heard of. It’s called the “Power Pallet” and it is essentially a combined biomass refinery and genera... Read more
A new model for solar farms that “co-locates” crops and solar panels could result in a harvest of valuable biofuel plants along with solar energy. Growing agave and other careful... Read more
“Transporting power through power lines to remote, rural areas is very inefficient and can be expensive for farmers and other rural citizens” As energy costs rise, more Americans are turning... Read more
Now scientists have a new technique that avoids the expensive enzymes Producing second-generation biofuel from dead plant tissue is environmentally friendly — but it is also expensive... Read more
Desert plants fed by seawater will produce biofuel more efficiently than other well-known feedstocks Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates have made breakthroughs in susta... Read more
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordi... Read more
The technology could produce ethanol at a cost savings of roughly 10 percent Using a plant-derived chemical, UW-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated strea... Read more
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, whic... Read more
Biologist Cui Qiu manipulates genes of little-known bacteria to make them superstars of fuel production. In one recent achievement, Cui, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences... Read more
Call it, as SGB does, Jatropha 2.0. In an unmarked greenhouse, leafy bushes carpet an acre of land here tucked into the suburban sprawl of Southern California. The seeds of the inedible, dro... Read more
Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at York University have discovered a way of breaking down potential sources of energy from plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste. Academics... Read more
Process simplifies transformation of algae to oil, water and usable byproducts Engineers have created a continuous chemical process that produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in... Read more