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LanzaTech Plants New Zealand Flag on New Waste Gas-to-Ethanol Process
LanzaTech, a small company based in New Zealand, has developed a proprietary microbe that feasts on the carbon monoxide in waste gas from steel mills and converts it to pure ethanol. Last year the...
View ArticleStandards Deficient for Current Biofuels
Biofuels offer a unique opportunity for the developing world. Almost 80 percent of the remaining land that has cultivation potential resides in South America and Africa, according to research supported...
View ArticleUsing Enzymes from Termites To Make Biofuel from Agricultural Waste
A U.S. company has come up with a new way of producing biofuels from cellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste: Using enzymes from the guts of termites to more efficiently produce ethanol. The...
View ArticleEthanol From Food Crops Fuels Cars While Hunger and Food Bills Rise
The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total...
View ArticleObama Backs CO2 Storage, Biofuels in Bid for Energy Policy
President Obama is supporting an ambitious plan to increase biofuel production in the U.S. and to develop 5 to 10 demonstration projects to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants...
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One Giant Step Closer to Fuel-from-Sunlight by Joule Biotechnologies
Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. has just announced that a lease agreement has been signed for a new facility in Leander, Texas, which will serve as a pilot plant to develop the company’s solar powered...
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A Sustainble Recipe for Biofuel: Ethanol from Orange Peels and Tobacco
Corn has been flaming out as a biofuel crop, and taking its place is a regular fruit salad of non-food and waste food alternatives. The latest up and and comer is being developed by researcher Henry...
View ArticleAlgae Biofuel Industry Seeks Tax Incentive
The U.S. Congress is coming under increased lobbying pressure from the algal organizations to extend tax code parity to algae-based biofuels. The Algal Biomass Organization and members of the...
View ArticleOil and Biofuels Interests Square Off Over Report
A recent report in preparation for the 12th International Energy Forum’s ministerial, scheduled in Cancun, Mexico later this month, studies and assesses the potential and limitations of biofuels....
View ArticleThe Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol’s Hidden Costs
Despite strong evidence that growing food crops to produce ethanol is harmful to the environment and the world’s poor, the Obama administration is backing subsidies and programs that will ensure that...
View ArticleSurvival of the Fittest: Making Sense of the Biofuel Subsidy Battle
With subsidy support for corn ethanol under attack, algae and cellulosic look to secure federal support. The result: a subsidy battle in the Capital that could dictate the direction of the U.S....
View ArticleThe Week in Review: LEDs Power Up; Ethanol Love Fades
Battle of the Bulbs: LEDs (light-emitting diodes) have been the Next Big Thing in lighting for nearly a decade, but have never been made bright enough to illuminate the pages of Malcolm Gladwell while...
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EPA’s New Ethanol Ruling Could Make 42 Million Automobiles Cleaner But Raises...
United States’ Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has increased the percentage of ethanol blending optional for cars and light-weight trucks made in or after 2007 to 15 percent (E15). This is the...
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Students Make Renewable Ethanol Fuel from Soda Pop
We all know that the U.S. is awash in soda pop, but it took a group of students and scientists from Oklahoma State University to figure out that soda pop could be a cheap, renewable resource for making...
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GOP Front Group AAPS Behind Bogus Biofuel Death Claims
Every once in a while, I read something that doesn't quite jive. Sometimes it's a simple typo or a misplaced decimal point, and a quick double-take + common sense will straighten things out. Other...
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The Arenga Sugar Palm — Bio Energy, Sustainable Food Source, and Economic Driver
It lives on damaged, infertile, and eroded soils, improves the ecosystem of forest floors, removes CO2 from the atmosphere and produces a sugary sweet juice at an amazing rate. The Arenga Sugar Palm is...
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First Large-Scale Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Facility Under...
Last week, ground was broken in Decatur, Il on construction of this country's first large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage facility that aims to demonstrate that CO2 emissions can be stored...
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NASCAR Goes Green
Auto racing hasn’t traditionally been a bastion of sustainability. The core of its appeal is dozens of gas-powered cars screaming around a track, as fast as they can, gulping down gallons of fuel, and...
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Ethanol Industry & Food Prices after Coming End to Volumetric Ethanol Excise...
Andrew Meggison of sister site Gas2 takes a closer look at speculations and stances following the coming end to the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) in this repost below. I’ll just note...
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Top Eight Alternative Fuels
Gasoline and diesel are still fossil fuel kings of the fuel supply chain but alternative fuels are now swinging the scale more toward green. A growing number of people believe alternative fuels will...
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