Apple’s Data Center and the Clean Energy Paradox
According to the North Carolina Utility Commission, Apple intends to double the amount of fuel cells it will use at its data center in...
Photobioreactor Will Provide Cheap and Efficient Energy Storage
Algae-based biofuel research was granted $910,000 to develop a bioreactor that will deliver light and collect fuel. The winning team from Cornell University consists...
Garbage Bacteria May Cut Biofuel Production Costs
A new species of bacterium, which was later named Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus, has been discovered in a garbage dump in Illinois that increases biofuel yield...
US Department of Energy Plans for the Future with Biofuel Projects
The Department of Energy has awarded $6.1 million to four biofuel-related energy technology projects, not least of which include engineered bioenergy crops and a...
New Biomass Conversion Technique Achieved with Electricity
In an effort to replace fossil fuels, a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Gwangiu Institute of Science...
Study of Algae Critical for Researchers to Understand Photosynthesis
73 researchers from 27 institutions, including the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), collaborated to sequence and analyze the genomes and...
Nobel Laureate and Photosynthesis Expert Hartmut Michel Says Biofuels Provide No Value
Nobel Laureate and current director of the Molecular Membrane Biology department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Dr. Hartmut Michel is best known...
Microbial Biodiesel Can Displace Both Soybean- and Petroleum-Based Diesels, Study Says
In a recent study conducted by researchers from Utah State University, it was found out that biodiesels from microalgae, yeast, and bacteria can effectively...
Genetically Modified Marine Algae to Increase Biofuel Production
Biologists at the University of California - San Diego disproves last month’s report of National Academy of Sciences to the Department of Energy that claimed algal...
Giant Reed as Biofuel Source: Miracle or Disaster?
The renewable fuels industry sees the giant reed (Arundo donax) as a miracle biofuel plant due to its fast-growing and drought-resistant features that it...
