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Topic: Biofuel Production

  
corn
ETHANOL   |  Comment

California's Low-Carbon Fuel Rule: A Boon for Alternative Fuels?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM

California passed the country's first low-carbon fuel standard law yesterday, with a goal of cutting carbon emissions 10% by 2020. The allowable carbon intensity of fuels will lower incrementally beginning in 2011. As a result, ...READ»

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CELLULOSIC ETHANOL   |  Comment

Ottawa Shell Station First to Deliver Gasoline Blended with Cellulosic Ethanol

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 73
Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM

In what is being described as the first commercial delivery of cellulosic ethanol, a Shell service station in Ottawa, Ontario is selling gasoline containing a 10% blend of biofuel made from wheat straw. The biofuel and gasoline ...READ»

fungus
ELEPHANT DUNG   |  Comment

World War Two-Era Fungus, Elephant Dung Combine to Make Biofuels

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 73
Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Hemp, soy, mustard, sunflower and palm oil can all be used to make biofuels, so why not elephant dung and World War Two-era fungus? Copenhagen-based Danisco A/S is using the fungus, which was discovered during WWII eating soldier's ...READ»

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NASA   |  8 comments

NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 58
Tue May 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM

There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic bags of sewage floating in the sea. The Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) ...READ»

COSKATA   |  Comment

GM-Backed Coskata Breaks Ground on Feedstock-Flexible Ethanol Facility

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 57
Mon Oct 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM

What if we could quickly and cheaply make ethanol using any cellulosic feedstock, including wood chips and construction waste? That's exactly what Coskata claims it can do with its new semi-commercial flex ethanol facility, launched ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  5 comments

Fast Talk: A Shining Biofuel Success

BY Cora Daniels
Relevancy Score: 55
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:24 AM

Patricia Woertz CEO, Archer Daniels Midland Co. Decatur, Illinois Patricia Woertz, 54, a veteran of Chevron and Gulf Oil, plans to increase ADM's focus on ethanol and other biodiesel fuels. "We want to be the global leader ...READ»

Coskata
GENERAL MOTORS   |  Comment

GM-Backed Coskata Breaks Ground on Feedstock-Flexible Ethanol Facility

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 53
Mon Oct 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM

What if we could quickly and cheaply make ethanol using any cellulosic feedstock, including wood chips and construction waste? That's exactly what Coskata claims it can do with its new semi-commercial flex ethanol facility, launched ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

A Mushroom in Your Tank?

BY Jennifer Alsever
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:13 AM

Taking stock of the latest in alternative-fuel strategies.READ»

mascoma
MASCOMA   |  Comment

Mascoma Close to Achieving the 'Golden Dream' of Cellulosic Ethanol Production

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 38
Thu May 7, 2009 at 3:36 PM

It seems like major biofuel breakthroughs are coming down the pipeline every day, but cellulosic ethanol start-up Mascoma's announcement today that it has achieved a breakthrough in consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is the biggest ...READ»

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CONTINENTAL   |  Comment

Continental Biofuel Flight Saved Energy, Lowered Carbon Emissions

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 PM

The results are back from Continental Airlines' biofuel test flight in January, and they look good. Continental's biofuel blend yielded a 1.1% increase in fuel efficiency over traditional jet fuels, and more impressively, cut carbon ...READ»

joule
SOLARFUEL   |  Comment

Does Joule Biotechnologies Hold the Key to Our Biofuel Future?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM

Joule grows engineered microbes using sunlight and CO2 in a "SolarConverter" system full of brackish water to produce what it calls "SolarFuel." The process is apparently so effective that it can produce ethanol and other hydrocarbon fuels for under $50 a barrel at a rate of 20,000 gallons of fuel per acre per year.READ»

exxon, bp, algae
ALGAE FUEL   |  Comment

BP Joins Exxon in Algae Fuel Lovefest

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 34
Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM

The latest Big Oil endorsement of algae-derived fuels signals that the technology may be feasible--and a better alternative--sooner than anyone expected.READ»

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GENIFUEL   |  Comment

Genifuel Develops Process to Turn Algae Into Natural Gas, Not Biofuel

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed May 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM

A number of companies--Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, and Bionavitas to name a few--are working on methods to convert algae into biofuel. But Genifuel wants to turn the pond scum into something different: natural gas. The company, ...READ»

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Where the Streets are Paved in Corn


Relevancy Score: 32
Thu Mar 1, 2007 at 2:09 PM

Word on the street is that alternative fuels are the answer to our country's dependence on foreign oil. An added bonus is that these alternative fuels may also reduce greenhouse gases - a big thumbs up for the environment- although ...READ»