On Campuses, a Fossil-Fuel Divestment Movement
by Steven Mufson (The Washington Post) A divestment movement is marching across U.S. college campuses, borrowing tactics from the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign and using them against oil, gas and coal...
View ArticleThis Is No Time to Cut Back on Ethanol Targets
by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/The Boston Globe) letter to editor: … But oil companies, as the Globe’s editorial acknowledges, “never wanted the hassle” of renewable fuels. Indeed, that’s...
View ArticleWhat Role for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in Mitigation Policy?
by J. K. Shoemaker, D. P. Schrag, M. J. Molina, V. Ramanathan (Science Magazine) Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) include methane (CH4), black carbon (BC), tropospheric ozone, and...
View ArticleWhy the Promise of Cheap Fuel from Super Bugs Fell Short
by Martin LaMonica (MIT Technology Review) The sell-off of synthetic biology pioneer LS9 goes to show that making biofuels from genetically engineered microbes has yet to deliver economically. … LS9...
View ArticleNew Catalyst Could Lead to Cleaner Energy
by Anne Trafton (MIT News) MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and...
View ArticleE85 Fueling Station Availability Is Increasing
(US Department of Energy Energy Information Administration) The number of retail fueling stations offering motor fuel that can be up to 85% ethanol, known as E85, has grown rapidly since 2007....
View ArticleThe Sugar Producers
by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Sweetwater Energy and Proterro, two companies using widely different approaches, aim for low-cost sugar that may give today’s corn ethanol plants a...
View ArticleMicrobes Chow Down on Latest Fuel-Cell Tech
(MIT News) Cullen Buie manipulates micro-scale phenomena to optimize energy conversion devices. … Buie’s work on microbial fuel cells is just one effort of many at LEMI, where projects draw upon...
View ArticleJoule’s Quest for Fuels from CO2, Sunlight and Water
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … From Massachusetts, word arrived from Joule this week that the EPA has favorably reviewed the company’s Microbial Commercial Activity Notice for Joule’s first...
View Article10 MegaVitaVegeTrends for Mega-Efficient Biofuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Are your biotechnologies run down, listless? Do they poop out at pitch meetings? Are they unpopular? The answer to your problems may well be in this list — in the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bioenergy: America’s Energy Future
(U.S. Department of Energy) Bioenergy: America’s Energy Future is a short documentary film showcasing examples of bioenergy innovations across the biomass supply chain and the United States. The film...
View ArticleOn Campuses, a Fossil-Fuel Divestment Movement
by Steven Mufson (The Washington Post) A divestment movement is marching across U.S. college campuses, borrowing tactics from the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign and using them against oil, gas and coal...
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2013 North American Biochar Symposium: Science, Passion and Practice
by Dan Quadros (Advanced Biofuels USA)* Biochar is a black matter produced by pyrolysis of biomass (burned without or with a little amount of oxygen), which can be used as a soil amendment. Pyrolysis...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bioenergy: America’s Energy Future
(U.S. Department of Energy) Bioenergy: America’s Energy Future is a short documentary film showcasing examples of bioenergy innovations across the biomass supply chain and the United States. The film...
View ArticleNew Approach to Boosting Biofuel Production
by Anne Trafton (MIT News Office) Different environment helps yeast tolerate high levels of ethanol, making them more productive. Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials...
View ArticleEPA Announces Winning P3 Student Teams for Pioneering Projects to Solve...
(US Enviromental Protection Agency) “Each year, the projects and designs created by the P3 teams surpass expectations,” said Lek Kadeli, Acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Research and...
View ArticleMascoma Catches Its Wascaly Wabbit, as Lallemand Acquires the Mascoma Yeast...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Massachusetts, Mascoma Corporation announced that it has completed the sale of its yeast business to Lallemand Inc., a privately owned company that researches,...
View ArticleResearchers Discover New Digestive Strategy in Shipworms
by Greg St. Martin (News@Northeastern) An international research team led by Dan Distel, director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center of New England Biolabs at Northeastern University, has...
View ArticleSmokeless Biofuel Saves Lives in Africa
by Julie Fahnestock (Just Means) … In fact, traditional cooking methods—open fires of wood and chemically based charcoals—have been deemed “the silent killer.” According to the World Health...
View ArticleBiofuel Survivor Joule Lands New CEO, Plans Larger CO2-to-Fuel Plants
by Martin LaMonica (Xconomy) The list of advanced biofuel companies that failed to live up to their ambitions is long and discouraging. Joule Unlimited, though, appears to be making progress despite...
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