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Friday, April 25th, 2008Researchers at the University of Texas have created a microbe that produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and biofuel. If production can be scaled up, the microbes can produce a large portion of the country’s transportation fuel. The cyanobacteia also secretes glucose and sucrose along with cellulose. Glucose and sucrose […]
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Range Fuels to put timber in the tank
Saturday, April 5th, 2008BusinessGreen reports that Range Fuels, which recently secured $100m in funding, is moving ahead with the building of an ethanol plant in Georgia that will be capable of turning wood into biofuel using a thermo-chemical technique. Plans are for Range Fuels to begin producing ethanol from wood waste next year.
Since corn, soy and palm-oil […]
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GreenFuel Technologies to build algae to fuel plant in Europe
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008According to Xconomy, GreenFuel Technologies, the company that has developed a bioreactor that grows algae using the CO2 emissions from power plants, will build an algae-to-fuel plant in Europe. Greenfuel’s bioreactor system takes the algae grown and then uses it to create clean-burning biofuel.
Greenfuel has had some problems with its last generation algae greenhouse […]
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Virgin jet to use biofuel blend in test flight
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008According to the San Francisco Chronicle, sometime this month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 will be powered by biofuel during a flight from London to Amsterdam. It will be the first time a commercial aircraft has flown on biofuel.
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Atlantic, teamed up with Boeing and GE Aviation […]
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Australian CSIRO researchers can turn green waste into fuel
Monday, February 4th, 2008CSIRO and Monash University researchers have developed a process called Furafuel that can be used to produce gasoline and diesel fuel from “green waste”, i.e. forest trimmings, crop residues, and waste paper, most of which currently ends up in landfills.
“By making changes to the chemical process, we’ve been able to create a concentrated bio-crude which […]
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Genetically altered trees may help create biofuel
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007The New York Times details how a researcher (Vincent L. Chiang) at North Carolina State University has developed a transgenic tree that contains only about 50% of the lignin of a normal tree. Less lignin is important to biofuel creation because lignin, which gives a tree its structural stiffness, also interferes with the […]
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Georgia picks pine over corn
Sunday, October 28th, 2007As ethanol derived from corn creates more and more of a controversy (see UN Expert seeks to halt biofuel output), alternate ways of producing ethanol and biofuel from other than corn and food stocks are becoming more and more important. Groundbreaking is about to take place on a new ethanol plant down […]
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Ethanol, schmethanol
Monday, October 1st, 2007I saw a small blurb in Computer Power User about Amyris Biotechnologies, a firm that “uses genetics to transform a sugary liquid mixture into a petroleum-like mix that, right out of the box, could be run through existing pipelines, gas stations and automotive engines with no retro-fitting necessary.” Intrigued, I did a little […]
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Smaller, cheaper biofuel reactors
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a quick way to waste biomass such as sawdust into biofuel or syngas. The researchers feel that if their process can be scaled up, it could beocme a much more energy efficient method for making biofuels because the system would consist of small, fast […]
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Environmentally Friendly Farmers Abandon Tradition for Power
Sunday, May 20th, 2007DW-World.DE has a pretty interesting article about a town in southern Germany that is producing more power than it uses. The farmers in Freiamt, a town of around 4,500 people near the Black Forest, have put up windmills, installed solar panels, and used the extra warmth that’s created when their cows’ milk is […]
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