Miscanthus does almost as well in poor soils as in fertile cropland The first long-term U.S. field trials of Miscanthus x giganteus, a towering perennial grass used in bioenergy production,... Read more
Smith said that this ability to reduce the loss of nitrogen into the environment will prove to be greatly beneficial. Perennial biofuel crops such as miscanthus, whose high yields have led t... Read more
Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to pr... 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 that has fru... Read more
Steven Chu wants to save the world by transforming its largest industry: energy. Read more