Fragrant New Biofuel A class of chemical compounds best known today for fragrance and flavor may one day provide the clean, green and renewable fuel with which truck and auto drivers fill th... Read more
Inside The Solazyme Kitchen You read that right: Algae. You might have thought it was just for biofuels (or just for floating in the ocean), but algae-based oils are the food additive of the... Read more
Major breakthrough in converting biomass to gasoline Cool Planet BioFuels, Camarilla, Calif., announced that it has made a major breakthrough in converting biomass to gasoline. The Co... Read more
This fuel cell technology could have implications beyond the medical industry A research team, lead by Dr. Serge Cosner, from Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble has created a Biofu... Read more
A kind of “cyber-garden” with over 300 “photobioreactor” hanging bags of algae After smart tech takes over the home and the car, gadget gardening looks like it could be the next front... Read more
Using algae to produce sustainable biofuel could become a commercially viable option New production method promises to save cost and energy as Etihad becomes latest airline to trial b... Read more
Wide-Scale Adoption of Technology Could Help Meet Increasing Global Demand for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), has developed breakt... Read more
A pioneer of liquid fuel from the sun proves to be more productive than all biofuels processes Joule Unlimited, a Massachusetts biotechnology company, claims it can now produce diesel... Read more
Scientists are seeking help from microbes to produce road-ready biofuels By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewa... Read more
Engineer says cheap biodiesel can be made on any scale year-round The biofuel farm contained only a small wind turbine, solar panel and container of green scum packed within a tub-siz... Read more
Butanol is particularly suited as a transport fuel A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and othe... Read more
Alternative to Diesel Fuel Researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace to... Read more
The methods would potentially allow food waste to be processed at home and on an industrial scale. Microwaving waste food products could be used to produce important chemicals and biofuels,... Read more
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is an adage that Professor Alexis Belonio had long ago taken close to heart. In 2003, he was able to invent a cooking stov... Read more
Here’s one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed “TU-103,” that can use paper t... Read more