Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully... Read more
“Ethanol actually is a poor alternative fuel,” Wass said. “Butanol is much better. Scientists today reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in g... Read more
A new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. University of Illinois scientist Hao Feng has found a way around the bottleneck th... Read more
Butanol is particularly suited as a transport fuel A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofue... Read more
Here’s one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed “TU-103,” that can u... Read more
A team of chemical engineers at the University of Arkansas has developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustibl... Read more
