By John on August 19, 2009
Aurora Biofuels announces a technological milestone in the company’s path to becoming the premier producer of low-cost advanced biofuels. Through a series of biotechnology achievements, Aurora has succeeded in optimizing its base algae strains to more than double CO2 consumption and fuel production, and has proven these results in an outdoor open system over the [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged algae, aurora biofuels, Biofuels, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, scientific advisory board
By John on July 16, 2009
Biofuels can be produced in large quantities and have multiple benefits, but only if they come from feedstocks produced with low life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, as well as minimal competition with food production. This consensus emerges in a new journal article by researchers from the University of Minnesota, Princeton, MIT and the University of California, [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged Biofuels, carbon dioxide, food crops, green energy, greenhouse gas emissions
By John on July 15, 2009
Algae is growing, in ponds and in popularity. Exxon Mobile, the largest worldwide petroleum trader, announced July 14 that it is turning its focus to a more sustainable fuel industry: algae biofuel. Investigation is still in its early stages, but algae’s incredible production efficiency may prove more effective than other biofuels in reducing greenhouse gas.
Exxon [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged algae, Biofuels, exxon mobile, greenhouse gases, organic material
By John on July 8, 2009
Scientists based at the University of Queensland are working towards one of sustainable energy’s holy grails – harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane.
Aided by new technologies and an international research network, the Australian team aim to have the first sugarcane genome sequence ready by the middle of next year.
The Australian arm of the research [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged biofuel, energy source, ethanol, green energy, southern cross university, sugar cane, sugarcane industry, university of queensland
By John on May 18, 2009
An effort to raise the 10% limit on ethanol in gasoline has misfired with Wisconsin engine makers Briggs & Stratton Corp., Mercury Marine, and the maker of Evinrude outboard engines.
Testing has not yet shown whether higher levels of the fuel additive are acceptable and safe, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, a Chicago-based trade group, said [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged biofuel, ethanol, ethanol blend, ethanol content, ethanol industry, ethanol producers, small gasoline engines
By John on April 23, 2009
Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have succeeded in unlocking the potential of carbon dioxide – a common greenhouse gas – by converting it into a more useful product. Using organocatalysts, the IBN researchers activated carbon dioxide in a mild and non-toxic process to produce methanol, a widely used industrial feedstock and [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged biofuel, carbon dioxide reduction, clean energy, excess carbon dioxide, Methanol
By John on April 9, 2009
Find a reference to duckweed dated earlier than last year, and you’re likely to be seeing complaints about the tiny aquatic plant. Like invasive water hyacinth and other floating plant species, duckweed is capable of quickly carpeting ponds and slow-moving water streams.
However, now it’s being pushed as yet another biofuel savior. Scientists from the North [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged alternative fuel, aquatic plant, Biofuels, ethanol, noxious weed, wastewater treatment, water hyacinth
By Alternative Energy News on February 6, 2009
Jets, concords and Boeings make our lives and traveling easier and faster. Rising prices are forcing companies and institutions to look for alternative fuels. NASA and 11 other research groups are testing two non-petroleum-based jet fuels that will be viable for commercial jets too and aviation companies can heave a sigh of relief as far [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged alternative fuels, commercial jets, dryden flight research, dryden flight research center, fischer tropsch process, jet fuels, liquid hydrocarbons
By Alternative Energy News on November 14, 2008
We all want to live in a clean and green environment and leave this planet in a livable condition for future generations. Scientists are continuously trying to find alternative clean and green fuel for our daily use. These days we hear and read about ethanol and biobutanol as alternative fuels. Biobutanol seems to have several [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged alternative fuels, biobutanol, Biofuels, clean and green environment, green fuel, slide, wheat straw
By John on October 21, 2008
While alternative fuels are being heavily studied for automobiles, we’re now seeing a push from a different direction. The aviation industry has taken an intense interest in the subject, and this might be enough to push biofuels over the edge into economic viability. The aviation industry produces only about one-ninth as much carbon dioxide as [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged alternative fuels, aviation fuels, corn ethanol, corn production, jet fuels, motor vehicle emissions
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