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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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Science Daily: Plant protein that may aid Biofuel production discovered
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Science Daily is reporting a Cornell University breakthrough that could make the cost of producing cellulosic ethanol less expensive. Researchers have discovered a new class of plant enzymes that could potentially allow plant materials to be broken down much more efficiently than with current enzymes.
The current method for breaking down [...]
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CNNMoney.com update on biobutanol
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Last week, CNN posted an update on the current status of biobutanol. Biobutanol has some important advantages over ethanol - it packs more power than ethanol and it doesn’t absorb water like ethanol does, but unfortunately it currently costs alot more to produce. The CNN article talks with some of the companies involved [...]
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Efficient Methods Could Bail Out Biofuels - Study
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Planet Ark talks about researchers who are developing more efficient ways to manufacture biofuels, which could generate enough fuel to supply the entire US transporation sector while also sharply reducing the amount of raw materials required to produce it.
The recent increases in the use of ethanol is causing turmoil among environmentalists because most of today’s [...]
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Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank
Sunday, March 11th, 2007The New York Times talks about some of the entrepreneurial companies and venture capitalists that are putting money into different alternative energy research. The story follows two venture capitalists, Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, and her husband, David Jones, who are investing their personal fortunes trying to show that they can grow lots of algae and [...]
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U.S. and Brazil - Strategic Alliance to Promote Ethanol
Saturday, March 10th, 2007There’s tons of articles out there about the new partnership between Brazil and the United States to promote wider production of ethanol as an alternative to oil.
Here’s just a couple
AFP
The Washington Post
LA Times
Boston Globe
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Algae-Based Fuels Set to Bloom
Sunday, March 4th, 2007From MIT Technology Review - an update on using algae to reduce greenhouse gases and produce fuel. Solix Biofuels, LiveFuels, and GreenFuel Technology (which I’ve posted on previously) are mentioned, along with their strategies. For example, Solix Biofuels is using algae to make “just about anything that can be [...]
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The Energy Blog: Why Both Biofuels and Battery Based Vehicles are Necessary
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Over at TheEnergyBlog, Jim lays out the reasons why both a robust biofuel program and new battery based vehicles are both necessary. Some people think that we should not focus on biofuels and instead put everything into batteries. Jim makes a convincing arguement as to why both are necessary. So [...]
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Science Daily - Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel of the Future?
Monday, February 19th, 2007Science Daily runs through some of the ways the US could meet President Bush’s goal to produce 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and alternative fuels by 2017. The best way to meet this goal is to produce cellulosic ethanol, according to Chris Somerville, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University [...]
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