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Alternative Energy / Biofuels

Researchers Scramble To Find Better Biofuel Alternatives

Feb 15, 2019 at 15:54 | Haley Zaremba

With the aid of high profile political and media events like the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Climate Change Summit, greenhouse gas emissions and global warming have become one…

U.S. Biofuel Just Got A Major Bump

Feb 14, 2019 at 14:16 | Haley Zaremba

The European Commission, the entity responsible for negotiating trade deals on behalf of the European Union, announced last week that they will now allow soybeans grown in the United States…

India Makes Breakthrough In Biofuel Development

Jan 02, 2019 at 11:36 | Haley Zaremba

In the face of an international movement away from traditional fossil fuels and toward a greener future, many researchers around the world are rushing to find the next big breakthrough…

China Aims To Boost Ethanol Production

Dec 14, 2018 at 15:43 | Haley Zaremba

China’s demand for cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels is on track to skyrocket over next few years as the government continues to make strategic moves toward a greener future. As…

The Overlooked Downside Of Ethanol

Nov 05, 2018 at 11:43 | Robert Rapier

Ethanol is known to damage small gasoline-powered engines, such as those in lawnmowers and leaf blowers. Consumer Reports explains: A Department of Energy study found that E15 caused hotter operating…

The Death Of Algal Biofuel

Oct 26, 2018 at 17:19 | Robert Rapier

During the advanced biofuel craze of the past decade, many companies made claims that weren’t remotely credible. A long list of companies claimed they could economically convert biomass like straw or wood…

Trump Sides With Farmers In Battle Against Refiners

Oct 09, 2018 at 17:31 | Nick Cunningham

The Trump administration announced a major policy change in an effort to win back farm country, allowing the year-round sale of a higher concentration of ethanol. Coinciding with a campaign…

Bioscience Breakthrough Turns Plant Waste Into Gasoline

Sep 28, 2018 at 17:14 | Brian Westenhaus

KU Leuven, Belgium bioscience engineers have developed a roadmap, so to speak, for industrial cellulose gasoline. The bioscience engineers already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from…

Are Biofuels A Viable Alternative For The Shipping Sector?

Sep 24, 2018 at 15:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The shipping industry is preparing for a major disruption of the types of fuels it will be using as early as the beginning of 2020, when stricter regulations for the…

U.S. Poised To Ease Biofuel Quotas

Jul 16, 2018 at 11:35 | Haley Zaremba

Just as scientists are making leaps and bounds in the technology behind biofuel production, opening the way for cheaper and more efficient clean fuel sources, the United States’ Environmental Protection…

Corn States Win In Fight Against Refiners

Jun 07, 2018 at 11:23 | Nick Cunningham

The Trump administration was on the verge of releasing a major change in U.S. biofuels policy, but a last minute political assault from corn states might have shelved the…

Is The U.S. Ethanol Industry Under Siege?

May 18, 2018 at 16:56 | Robert Rapier

Following the 2016 presidential election, I explained Why The Ethanol Industry Should Fear President Trump. Since that time, the ethanol industry has indeed been on the defensive. In fact,…

Biofuel Breakthrough Uses Algae To Create Hydrogen

May 11, 2018 at 16:40 | Brian Westenhaus

A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has discovered an efficient way for transforming solar energy into the chemical energy of biohydrogen through the photosynthesis of green…

How Carbon Capture Can Be Profitable

Apr 26, 2018 at 12:54 | Futurity

A new discovery offers hope for cost-effective carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Although considered critical to avoiding catastrophic global warming, scientists have questioned the feasibility of carbon capture—removing carbon dioxide…

The U.S. Ethanol Industry Is Under Attack

Apr 20, 2018 at 18:05 | Robert Rapier

Jerry Jung’s passion for reforming the nation’s ethanol laws started when he noticed that the monarch butterflies had vanished from his hobby farm north of Clare, Michigan. After doing a bit of…

Bioplastics Threaten Big Oil

Jan 05, 2018 at 14:43 | Nick Cunningham

What sector will account for the largest source of oil demand growth over the next two decades? Most people might assume transportation, with hundreds of millions of people in the…

Research Unveils New Promising Biofuel

Dec 08, 2017 at 17:21 | Futurity

New research indicates that poplar trees could be an economically viable biofuel material. In the quest to produce affordable biofuels, poplars are one of the Pacific Northwest’s best bets—the trees…

Oil Refiners And Farmers Battle Over Biofuels

Dec 04, 2017 at 17:05 | Tsvetana Paraskova

President Donald Trump has agreed to meet representatives of the U.S. oil refining industry and oil-supporting lawmakers to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard Program—a meeting that could set the stage…

Sweden Burns H&M Clothes As Fuel

Nov 27, 2017 at 15:55 | Zainab Calcuttawala

A power plant in Stockholm elected to burn damp and soiled clothing from H&M as fuel last week, according to a new report from Mining.com. The plant aims to…

Is This The Ultimate Fuel For Millennials?

Nov 22, 2017 at 14:06 | Irina Slav

Imagine sipping your soy latte or iced caramel macchiato during your daily commute in a bus that emits not noxious gases, but a fresh coffee aroma. Now imagine that the…

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