Agave Ethanol Could Replace Petrol Without Displacing Food Crops
In recent years, those voices saying that using corn crops to produce biofuels is a bad idea are increasingly common. Taking into account the...
Obama Keeps Encouraging Alternative Fuel Industries in Georgetown Speech
I have always admired Obama's attitude towards green technologies. During a speech in Georgetown, he continued encouraging the biofuel industry and telling people that "the only way for America's energy supply to be truly secure is by permanently reducing our dependence on oil."
Startup Proterro Engineers Bacteria For Higher Ethanol-Producing Sugar Yield
Princeton-based startup Proterro has announced the development of a technology that can produce sugar, the main source for ethanol, by using engineered cyanobacteria, photosynthetic organisms that can produce sucrose through a normally-occurring defense system.
Genetically Modified Switchgrass Offers Bright Perspective on Bioethanol
Ethanol is already being used to supplement gasoline, as you may already know. Still, researchers are trying to find methods to produce bio-ethanol from plant sources that are both less costly to grow and to process, while at the same time keeping the efficiency into account. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found how newly-modified prairie grass may be the perfect candidate.
Put In Beer and Pop, Get Ethanol – Example of Canada's Newest Waste Recycling...
A plant that will eat up waste pop soda and beer and will output ethanol good for pouring in fuel tanks will be set up by the end of February in Atlantic Canada. The $500,000 pilot plant, is part of a project led by New Brunswick Community College's bioenergy and bioproducts applied research and technology facility in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, located near the Maine border.
Japanese Researchers Find Ways To Produce Biobutanol More Efficiently
Butanol can be made greener by the research of a Japanese institute, who developed an energy-saving biobutanol with a density of at least 80 percent. They derived their biobutanol from a 1 percent concentrated butanol and used a zeolitic separation membrane.
ORNL Researchers Find Way to Make Ethanol From Switchgrass Cheaper by Using Neutron Scattering
A research aimed to lower the cost of biomass conversion process has been conducted by the researchers from the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech. The study used small-angle neutron scattering to test the structural impact of an acid pretreatment of lignocellulose from switchgrass.
Fungus Genes Could Help Make Ethanol From Wood Chips and Switchgrass
According to a group of scientists, genes copied from a common fungus could make the production of ethanol from wood chips and grass (abundant materials) much easier. If this experiment will be a success, it could one day help ethanol compete with gasoline.
China's New Bio Energy Research Center will Turn Coal into Biofuels
A new Zealand-based company called LanzaTech which is considered an expert in turning waste into fuel, has recently signed an agreement with Henan Coal, one of the largest coal producers in China and with the Chemical Industrial Corporation for the production of ethanol fuels.
Enerkem Starts Construction of World's First Garbage To Biofuel Plant
All the garbage collected from the city of Edmonton can be used to produce biofuel. Last week, the city officials announced that Enerkem, a company based in Montreal began the construction of a $80 million plant that will be capable to turn the town's landfill into biofuel.
