Biofuel

bluefire Named One of Top 20 Bioenergy Companies for Second Consecutive YearPR Newswire (press release) Mascoma Makes Top Ten List of “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” Two Years in ...Business Wire (press release) Earthtimes (press release) -Your Renewable News (press release) -S...

Aston University’s Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has secured €736,000 (£670,000) towards its role in DIBANET (Development of Integrated Biomass Approaches Network), which aims to produce a sustainable diesel miscible biofuel (DMB) for use in Europe and Latin America. The 42 mont...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) ScienceDaily.com<br /><br />ScienceDaily (June 4, 2009) — The ‘water footprint’ of bioenergy, i.e. the amount of water required to cultivate crops for biomass, is much greater than for other forms of energy. The generation of bioelectricity is significantly more water-ef...

Journal Watch  UK A significant cause is that in the case of the former, the whole plant is used and in the case of the latter, only the sugar, starch or oil from the seeds is used. As regards the new generation of biofuels, ethanol can also be made from the stalk and ... Dry At The Pump Journal Watch

By Mike Millikin The £6 million will fund Carbon Trust’s “Advanced Bioenergy Directed Research Accelerator”. It will be delivered over two financial years (£3m per annum) and is intended to accelerate the development of two advanced sustainable biofuel technologies: algae as a sustainable feedstoc...

By Mike Millikin The report notes that modern bioenergy represents an extraordinary opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, offsetting reliance on petroleum and helping meet the needs of the 1.6 billion people worldwide who lack access to electricity in their homes, and the 2.4 billion who...

By Mike Millikin Bioenergy crops are able to offset carbon dioxide emissions by converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic carbon in biomass and soil, but the production of biofuels requires fossil fuels and impacts greenhouse gas fluxes. The primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions asso...

By Mike Millikin “Development of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) as a bioenergy feedstock in the United States”; Samuel B. McLaughlin and Lynn Adams Kszos; Biomass and Bioenergy Volume 28, Issue 6 , June 2005, Pages 515-535 Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol: A Joint Research Agen...