Juice Extracted from Rotten Watermelons to be Used in Biofuel Production
Every summer, hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are transformed in garbage because they aren't good enough for marketplace. A new research says that the juice extracted from these watermelons could be used to the biofuel production.
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...
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.
Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old
This years scholarship prize of $20,000 of Invent Your World Challenge went to a 15 year old fellow from Texas called Javier Fernández-Han, who proved us all that renewable energy is the way we should direct our creativity upon.
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.
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.
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...
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.
More Bioethanol (10%) in UK Petrol – Govt Consultation in Progress
The UK Department for Transport has started a consultation regarding the E10 fuel. The goal is to figure out whether and how it should...
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...
