Biofuel News

For many motorcyclists, the only fuel-related concern besides the price of gas is not accidentally grabbing the green-handled diesel pump.

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Generation of biofuels from sugars in lignocellulosic biomass is a promising alternative to liquid fossil fuels, but efficient and inexpensive bioprocessing configurations must be developed to make this technology commercially viable.

A shift to plant-based diets is one strategy to help the world meet its food demands by the year 2050, according to a new study that says crop yields are improving too slowly to satisfy meat-eaters' appetites.

A shift to plant-based diets is one strategy to help the world meet its food demands by the year 2050, according to a new study that says crop yields are improving too slowly to satisfy meat-eaters' appetites.

Improved methods for breaking down cellulose nanofibers are central to cost-effective biofuel production and the subject of new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center .

New Zealand clean-tech firm LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic have received an award for their partnership commercialising low-carbon aviation biofuels.

That's a lot of space for growing biofuels that could replace between 5 percent and 30 percent of the United States' primary energy or liquid fuel demands, he said.

The Biotechnology Industry Organization and BIOCOM today thanked Rep. Scott Peters for introducing legislation that would make renewable chemicals eligible for support in the USDA Biorefinery Assistance Program.

June 17--Washington State University's reputation for its research in developing viable alternative jet fuels has caught the attention of aviation leaders around the globe, earning WSU an invitation to the 50th International Paris Air Show.

Evie Sobczak is a young science rockstar who has already done more in her 16 years than most of us will in our entire lives : For a fifth-grade science fair, Evie Sobczak found that the acid in fruit could power clocks; she connected a cut-up orange to a clock with wire and watched it tick.

The former ethanol plant in Luverne, Minn., was retrofitted last year to ferment another corn-based alcohol, called isobutanol, that can fuel vehicles or be used to make chemicals.

June 18, 2013 Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector research and investing ideas for independent investors, including biofuel and renewable energy stocks issues a trading alert for Gevo, Inc. , trading at $2.12, spiking .39 or 22.54% as of 12:02PM EDT on over 7.5 Million shares .

The green credentials of biofuel crops have been sullied in recent years. Rienk van Grondelle believes the answer to the world's clean energy needs will be super-efficient algae Photosynthesis in algae is already more efficient than in plants, but they can be engineered to be even better at converting sunlight into biofuel.

Volvo Trucks is partnering with British biofuel supplier Gasrec to help business customers cut haulage costs and reduce carbon emissions by increasing the availability and use of bio-based gas-powered vehicles in the UK.

Scottish start-up Celtic Renewables is bringing back a once popular fermentation process that it says can be used to produce superior next-generation biofuels from the byproducts of various biological industries.

Food use will drive demand for vegetable oils and fats in 2012-13 as the world population grows and per-capita consumption rises, while biofuel use will increase at the slowest pace in a decade, Oil World forecast.

"If you have ants in your house," the great Harvard ecologist EO Wilson once said , "be kind to them."

Just ask investors in cotton , as the market negotiated continued talk over whether a bounce like last year, when New York's July 2012 contract bounced 35% trough to peak in a short squeeze on the approach to expiry, may be about to repeat itself.

Palm oil shipments from Indonesia , the world's biggest producer, probably advanced for the first time in four months in May on increasing demand for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.