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Company Aims to Make Jet Fuel from Coal
technica browser | December 15th 2009 by lindonlaco
Some of the world's largest airlines -- including American, US Airways, Delta and Lufthansa -- have signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 500,000 barrels per month of jet fuel made from petroleum coke, a refinery waste product -- and coal. read more
Greater Use Of Renewable Energy And Reduced Oil And Natural Gas C…
Renewable Energy Sources | December 15th 2009 by entwickler
EIA Energy Outlook Projects Moderate Growth in U.S. Energy Consumption, Greater Use of Renewables, and Reduced Oil and Natural Gas Imports WASHINGTON, DC – The Annual Energy Outlook 2010 (AEO2010) has just been released by the U.S. Energy read more
ARPA-E Spending $100 Million on Batteries and Biofuels
CleanBeta | December 13th 2009 by William Pentland
The U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is offering a second round of grants for innovative energy research projects that accelerate innovation in biofuels, electric vehicle batteries and carbon-capture read more
Arrow Ecology Sorts Through Garbage for Gold
Green Prophet | December 13th 2009 by karink
(The Arrow Ecology solid waste treatment facility near Tel Aviv processes up to 150 tons of garbage a day. Photo courtesy Chen Leopold/ Flash90) Like death and taxes, garbage is inevitable. And with environmental concerns growing, cities across the g read more
Using Microorganisms to Make Diesel Fuel
HeatingOil.com | December 12th 2009 by Tara
The rainbow pool in Yellowstone National Park. The pool's yellow and orange colors come from nonphotosynthetic algae, organisms similar to those that could produce a new form of biodiesel. (image: Dr. Doc via flickr.com) A new program at the Adv read more
Biofuel, Electric, Or HHO Conversion
Tesla Roadster Cost | December 12th 2009 by Rossen Yavorov
What the oil companies don’t want you to know. Were you aware that bio diesel, electric and HHO technology is & read more
Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel
Science and technology updates | December 11th 2009 by Sagar
Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. Genetically engineered strains of the cyanobacterium... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web read more
Maize cell wall genes identified, giving boost to biofuel researc…
Breaking News Center | December 11th 2009 by Fatikhul Ihsan
PhysOrg.comNovember 19th, 2009Purdue University scientists have helped identify and group the genes thought to be responsible for cell wall development in maize, an effort that expands their ability to discover ways to produce the biomass best suited read more
Super Carbon Eating Plants to Ease Global Warming and More
BionicBong | December 11th 2009
Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production. The Kyoto University team found that soaking germinated read more
Bentley Continental Supersports found to be 85% recyclable, one o…
RPMGO.com | December 11th 2009 by Vlad Balan
Who says you can’t have a whopping W12 engine under the hood and not save the planet at the same time? Certainly not the engineers at Bentley, which after modifying the huge engine of the fastest model from the UK carmaker, the Continental Sup read more
Brazil defends Sugarcane at Copenhagen Summit
SugarcaneBlog | December 9th 2009
According to this report in the Guardian’s website, Brazil’s government is continuing to press for recognition that while “biofuels are no silver bullet,” they are the best way forward for developing countries. The article say read more
Enerkem Scores $50M DOE Funding
Green Energy Reporter | December 8th 2009 by Terrence Murray
Montreal-based Enerkem has scored $50 million in stimulus funding from the Department of Energy to support construction of a waste-to-biofuels power facility in Pontotoc, Miss. Once operational the test facility is expected to produce 10 million gall read more
Self-destructing Cyanobacteria improves renewable Biofuel product…
Assam Information Portal | December 8th 2009 by Assam
An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery of high-energy fats̵ read more
Self-Destructing Bacteria Improve Renewable Biofuel Production
The X-Journals | December 7th 2009 by Blake Harris
The research team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery of high-energy fats--and their biofuel byproducts--easier and potentially less costly. read more
Secretaries Chu and Vilsack Announce More Than $600 Million Inves…
Think Green resources | December 7th 2009 by Dave Lally
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Ac read more
Feds Invest $564M in Advanced Biomass Projects
Clean Energy Leader | December 7th 2009
To help build the foundation of a biomass industry in the United States, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture have selected 19 biorefinery projects in 15 states to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. read more
EPA Delays Final Decision on Increasing Ethanol Blend Limits Unti…
Aaron's EnvironMental Corner | December 6th 2009 by Aaron
from FutureCars.com In brief: The Environmental Protection Agency has delayed final decision-making on increasing ethanol blend limits until sometime next year, depending on further testing and results. The word The United States EPA says that they read more
Nanofarming Offers a Kinder, Gentler Way to Get Biofuel from Alga…
CleanTechnica | December 6th 2009 by Lucille Chi
One barrier to cost-competitive biofuel from algae is about to fall, and we may have nanofarming to thank for that. The new technology uses tiny nanoparticles to absorb free fatty acids from living microalgae. It is being developed by the U.S. Depa read more
Jumbo Jet Tests Bio-Fuel
Solar energy Blog | December 5th 2009 by DForce
Business tycoon, Richard Branson, owner of Virgin group, has announced that his company will not only produce bio-fuels, but also will be proving them in one of their Boeing 747 planes. “In the middle of this year we will fly a 747 without pas read more
Norway Opens World’s First Osmotic Power Plant
Mouli Cohen | December 4th 2009 by Mouli cohen
Situated on the scenic banks of the Oslo fjord in southern Norway, the world’s first prototype osmotic power station came online this week. The new plant generates electricity using osmosis, which occurs whenever two solutions of different concent read more
Carrier, Novo Nordisk, Poland Spring Offer Best Practices to Redu…
Clean Energy Leader | December 4th 2009
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is showcasing the innovative ways three major companies are reducing their fleet carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. EDF says the best practices at Carrier, Novo Nordisk and Poland Spring can be adopted by all busines read more
Clinton, CT Experiments With Biofuel in Heating Oil and Vehicle F…
HeatingOil.com | December 3rd 2009 by Tara
A view inside the Henry Carter Hull Library, one of several buildings in Clinton heated by a biofuel blend. (image: tunneyassociates.com) The New Haven Register reports that the small coastal town of Clinton, CT is launching a community-wide biofuel read more
Genetics for palm oil to boost $17.6Bn export industry
Emerging Voice | December 3rd 2009 by Paul Harper
Malaysia is looking to genetics to help its palm oil industry improve productivity, while enhacing the image of the sector at a time when it is seeking to capture a bigger share of the global vegetable oil market. Widely used in cooking oil, other read more
EU’s Green Protectionism
SugarcaneBlog | December 2nd 2009
The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) just released a paper entitled “Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments”, poi read more
KLM Claims First Biofuel Airline Passenger Flight
Attuworld | December 1st 2009 by Yaikz
Dutch airline KLM has made the latest step in what appears to be a rush by airlines to demonstrate the use of alternative fuels. The airline made what it is calling the first passenger flight using biofuel. KLM completed the flight with one of its Bo read more
NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels
Think Green resources | December 1st 2009 by Dave Lally
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ethanol producers are racing to come up with ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass that are cheaper and easier to produce than current methods. But they are hitting a wall. Cel read more
Green flights :Airlines opt for biofuels.
Speed Thrillers | December 1st 2009 by N.Balasubramanian
Blue green algae, the innocous jatropha plant and the fast growing camelina could power a 735,000 lb palane soon and airlines plane manufacturers and engine companies have joined hands to use these plants along with fossil fuels to fuel the fli read more
NASA Wants to Bag Biofuel From Sewage [UPDATED]
The Green Economy Post | November 30th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
NASA scientists from the Moffet Field laboratory in California have proposed an ingenious process to grow algal biofuels in the ocean enclosed within large floating bags made of a special semi-permeable clear plastic membrane. Growing algae in float read more
Leading TransBioDiesel as a Catalyst for Change in the Middle Eas…
Green Prophet | November 30th 2009 by karink
Israeli-Arab Dr. Sobhi Basheer of TransBioDiesel: using his experience with enzymes to replace conventional polluting practices. Many people today know that science can make biofuel from organic waste. But what a large percentage of people don’ read more
Renewable Energy Solutions to Solve the World Energy Crisis
Alternative Fuels | November 28th 2009
Nothing lasts forever, and one of the things that are going to run out in a short while is oil. Fossil fuels have been used for a very long time as a means of generating much of the energy needs of the globe. From cars to electricity and plastics, th read more
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