Taipei :: Taiwan
| 4 days ago
According to the Keelung-based university, the biocatalytic biofuel cell is similar to the enzymatic biofuel cell because both can generate electricity by converting or reducing chemicals...Liu, adding that for every family, such a solution could provide...
Tags: biofuel, biofuel cell
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA
| 8 days ago
Now that corn prices have plunged, is the ethanol industry still in the hot seat for driving up prices? A: Just a few months ago, when agricultural commodity prices reached their peaks, U.S. biofuel companies took the heat for a litany of woes: high food...
Tags: biofuel, cellulosic ethanol, corn prices
São Paulo :: Brazil
| 14 days ago
Today, the Kisumu Ethanol Plant employs 450 people, and tankers load up with 75,000 liters of ethanol every day, destined for pharmaceutical companies and producers of alcoholic drinks. But as he sits in his office, one of the plant’s directors, Israel...
Tags: biofuel, fuel, Brazil, Lula, g20 meeting
Sydney :: Australia
| 15 days ago
Australia's energy security, not those that come at the expense of food production, says a report by a leading science organisation. Research by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering found that Generation 1 biofuels, or those...
Tags: Australian Solar Institute, biofuel
Singapore :: Singapore
| 19 days ago
Unfazed by the state of world financial markets, Blenheim-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation is hoping its futuristic green technology will draw investors to the next stage of its development. Aquaflow is seeking $20 million to fund commercialisation...
Tags: biofuel, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation
Emeryville :: CA :: USA
| 20 days ago
A pilot plant producing diesel fuel from sugar cane officially opened here Tuesday, tapping a sweet source to create cleaner-burning fuel for cars and trucks. "Our plan is to make 200 million gallons of diesel fuel annually from sugar cane by 2011," said...
Tags: fuel, biofuel, Amyris Biotechnologies, sugar cane
Manila :: Philippines
| 20 days ago
Biofuels are under siege from critics who say they crowd out food production. Now these fuels made from grass and grain, long touted as green, are being criticized as bad for the planet. At issue is whether oil alternatives -- such as ethanol distilled...
Tags: biofuel, critics, food security, FAO, agriculture production
Lund :: Sweden
| 26 days ago
U.S. scientists say a fungus in the Patagonian rainforest might be a new source of biofuels since it produces a number of diesel compounds from cellulose. "This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of...
Tags: biofuel, researcher
Lebanon :: TN :: USA
| 28 days ago
At the Mascoma Corp. lab, the recipe might include a dash of enzymes from termite guts, elephant stomach mixed with yeast, a load of pulverized switch grass or paper sludge, and a few days of fermentation. Anything goes here, as scientists try to find...
Tags: biofuel
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA
| about 1 month ago
U.S. ethanol producer Verasun Energy says it has declared bankruptcy after sustaining huge losses on the corn futures market. In a statement released Friday, Verasun, based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and one of the county's biggest ethanol producers, said...
Tags: biofuel, VeraSun Energy Corp., ethanol producer, bankruptcy protection, Verasun Energy, producer verasun, U.S, ethanol maker, verasun filed, declared bankruptcy
