A more diverse cropping landscape would mean viable farms, healthier diets and a steadier food system. FROM where I sit on the north end of America’s grain belt, I can almost hear the corn p... Read more
SAT expects the unit to be producing 1.2 million liters (317,000 gallons) of biodiesel per year The state of Pernambuco in Brazil’s northeast is going to become home to the country’s first a... Read more
Blending ethanol brewed from corn into gasoline stocks is not bringing down fuel prices, an M.I.T. study finds The renewable ethanol fuel blended into the United States’ gasoline suppl... Read more
Another breakthrough in ethanol production took place in Negros Occidental early yesterday morning. San Carlos Bioenergy Inc. in San Carlos City, for the first time in the Philippines... Read more
Ethanol production costs can be as low as $0.56 per gallon Los Gatos, Calif. – E-Fuel, a privately held, Los Gatos-based developer of technology for producing ethanol at home, has raised $2.... Read more
A Georgia company says it has overcome a major roadblock in turning agricultural waste into vehicle fuel and other useful chemicals by experimenting with a technology that treats the waste w... Read more
Do little one-celled plants hold the key to our energy future? How to wean ourselves off fossil fuels? A tough question with a seemingly simple answer: use renewables. But alas, not that sim... Read more
Garbage in, Energy out Edmonton is Canada’s chief oil city as well as the capital of Alberta, the province that hosts the bulk of the country’s tar sands. Given the expense of co... Read more
Ethanol is the most commonly used biofuel worldwide and is made by fermenting the sugar components of plant materials, usually sugar and starch crops such as sugar cane, corn and wheat. The... Read more
An international team of scientists has announced success in creating hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure using a combination of sunlight and ethanol. The team of researchers from S... Read more
Agave is a very hardy, useful plant. It grows in hot, arid conditions, and has found use in the production of beverages, food, and fiber. Now, it looks like it could have yet one more use –... Read more
Does ethanol in Iowa cause deforestation in Brazil? Read more
Image via Wikipedia Developing biofuel from native perennials instead of corn in the Midwest’s rolling grasslands would better protect threatened bird populations, Michigan State Unive... Read more
The biofuel industry stands to benefit from the development of a new variety of yeast which produces ethanol from plant products more efficiently. Engineered by combining two existing yeast... Read more