A group of African girls have made an engine that runs on a truly renewable resource: human urine. Over the last two days, Lagos, Nigeria has hosted Maker Faire Africa, the Maker movement’s bastion on that [...]

Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels [...]

Once producing biofuel from algae is economical, researchers estimate that an area the size of New Mexico could provide enough oil to match current U.S. petroleum consumption It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her [...]

Crude oil is getting scarce. This is why researchers are seeking to substitute petroleum-based products – like plastics – with sustainable raw materials. Waste wood, divided into lignin and cellulose, could serve as a raw [...]

That gas can be processed into transportation fuels. Nicholas Creager recently pointed to the nuts and bolts of one of Iowa State University’s latest biofuel machines. The 6-inch diameter, stainless steel pipe is the pressure [...]

100 percent waste vegetable oil biodiesel will come from within 150 miles of Portsmouth, making the product as local as it is environmentally friendly Five years after being founded in a Stratham farmhouse, Simply Green [...]

This could be useful for greenhouse gas mitigation, bioremediation or erosion control. The same “green revolution” concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer [...]

Sweet sorghum is primarily grown in the United States as a source of sugar for syrup and molasses. But the sturdy grass has other attributes that could make it uniquely suited to production as a [...]

It can also provide dedicated energy crops suitable for establishment on marginal land Putting the water-use-efficient and turbo-charged photosynthesis from plants such as agave into woody biomass plants such as poplar can hedge against predicted [...]

A gene that keeps switchgrass forever young could have far-reaching implications for the development of the plant as a biofuel crop, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists. Inserting a specific gene called “corngrass” from [...]

The corn industry produces almost 4,000 products from every bushel. Oil refineries produce fuels and ingredients for an estimated 6,000 products with a thoroughness that actually squeezes 44 gallons of products from every 42-gallon barrel [...]

Five questions about Argonne’s Endurance Bioenergy Reactor What is the Endurance Bioenergy Reactor? The Endurance Bioenergy Reactor (EBR) is a simple, easy-to-use portable system that uses bacteria to produce fuel that can go directly into [...]