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From Mind-Bending To Mind-Blowing: Biofuel Stories of 2012
Sometimes the biofuels world is just truly bizarre. At other times, it’s too cool for words. The biofuels stories which cross my desk sometimes seem like they belong in a science fiction novel, at others like they should be in a horror movie. For example, in 2009 we had the Beverley Hills plastic surgeon who…
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Work needed to make algal biofuel viable, study suggests
January 31, 2013 by Krishna Ramanujan Though biofuels from algae hold great promise, Cornell researchers find that more innovation is needed to make the technology economically and energetically viable at a commercial scale Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-algal-biofuel-viable.html
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Who’s leading in algae around the world
Who’s in front in the development of algal-based fuels and biomaterials? India, China, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Israel, the EU, or the US. The NAABB’s globe-trotting chief parses it out. Read full article to find out
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How algae biodiesel works
How algae biodiesel works..a nice simple introduction. The race is on for a new form of fuel. With gasoline skyrocketing to more than $4 a gallon in 2008, dependence on imported oil and depleting resources worldwide, finding alternatives to petroleum-based fuel and fuel-related products is urgent. Fortunately, scientists have been studying the production of alternative…
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What is Biomass?
Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant based material, but biomass can equally apply to both animal and vegetable derived material. Read full article
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Caltech Scientists Create New Enzymes for Biofuel Production
Enzymes are important step toward cheaper biofuels Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and world-leading gene-synthesis company DNA2.0 have taken an important step toward the development of a cost-efficient process to extract sugars from cellulose–the world’s most abundant organic material and cheapest form of solar-energy storage. Plant sugars are easily converted into a…
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SQUEEZING POWER FROM POND SCUM
Seeing Green The merits of renewable fuels abound, but so do limiting factors. We can already produce biofuels to run our cars, but if it costs $10 per gallon and requires petroleum products for production, why bother? We must see green—economic and environmental—if we seek to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. SQUEEZING POWER FROM…
