Last Updated: Friday, April 23, 2010, 20:52
Heating and squishing microalgae in a pressure-cooker can fast-forward the crude-oil-making process from millennia to minutes, a study has revealed.
Last Updated: Monday, March 29, 2010, 14:13
A team of scientists has worked out how to modify yeast cells so that they successfully convert a wider range of sugars from plant waste such as wheat and rice straw into alcohol that can be used as biofuel.
Last Updated: Friday, March 12, 2010, 23:31
New economic analysis has confirmed that maize-based biofuel is unlikely to reduce global production of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Last Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 14:42
A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 12:18
To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India`s growing energy needs, but some experts are starting to question whether the wonder-shrub is too good to be true.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 19:27
A team of engineers from the University of Virginia’s has proposed using wastewater as a solution to some of the environmental hurdles that come up in the production of algae-based biofuel.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 11:31
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry`s carbon footprint.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 14:12
In an effort to find an alternate and cost-effective fuel, IISc scientists have found it possible to extract oil from a type of algae `Diatoms.`
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