Fast-Food Lobbyists Fight Biofuel Law
American fast-food lobbyists are pushing back again an alternative fuel policy that requires gasoline to contain ethanol, a fuel produced from corn, and are...
Ethanol-Based Biofuel Spills Could Pollute More Than Ordinary Fuels
Outcome Magazine released a report last week, stating that when the biofuel component ethanol is mixed with regular petroleum gas it gives it different...
New Biofuel Technology Produces 2.5% More Corn Bioethanol
In response to the food crisis that the first generation biofuel is causing (partially), an industrial producer of enzymes based in Denmark, Novozymes, has...
Study Claims EU Biofuel Plan Only Benefits Big Bosses, Not The Environment
In its plan to increase biofuel share to 10% by 2020, the European Union (EU) seems to favor the interests of profit-minded big industrial...
New and Improved Biofuel Production from Agricultural Wastes
Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) develop a new biofuel production process that generates 20 times more energy than currently known methods. The process...
Bacterium Living in Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Studied for Ethanol-Producing Abilities
Caldicellulosiruptor obsidiansis, a bacterium that can normally be found in Yellowstone's hot springs has opened new horizons for scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...
European Report Expects Diminished Use of Biofuels
One alternative source of energy grows in trees...or almost! I'm talking about plants involved in the production of biofuels, like sugarcane, corn or palm...
Burning Sugarcane Fields Bad for Ethanol's Carbon Footprint, Researchers Find
Ethanol is already established as a good biofuel source and is being blended with gasoline to make the fossil fuel cleaner-burning. But ethanol that...
Renmatix Uses Supercritical Water to Turn Biomass into Biofuels
Wood chips, switchgrass and other non-edible parts of crops, also known as "agricultural waste" have been touted recently as good biofuel sources. However, extracting...
Discarded Watermelons Could be Used to Make Ethanol
Did you know that up to a fifth of all watermelons grown each summer go discarded, only because of their non-uniform shape? It's not...
