Disruptive Technology Meets The Biofuels Industry: Biofuels Global Implications
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dutch carrier KLM announces bio-kerosene trial flight The Dutch airline KLM will operate a demonstration flight on bio-kerosene using Boeing 747 equipment on 23rd November it was announced last week. According to the airline, during the test flight, one of the aircraft engines will be running on a fuel mixture made up of 50% sustainable bio-fuel [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future.
Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
While waiting for final government approval of its sale of the ailing Hummer brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp., GM is hoping to give it a sales boost with the introduction next month of a flex-fuel engine for the 2010 H3 and H3T models. Adding E85 (ethanol) capability is part of the GM calls the brand's "evolution to offer responsible ... more efficient"...
Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Developing nations could end up being paid billions of dollars to raze rainforests and build palm oil plantations in their place if the current text of the Copenhagen climate treaty sticks, a group of advocates warned at the United Nations climate talks on Tuesday. ... The 10-word provision - "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" - was part of...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The cold weather is quickly approaching, which means it's time to start thinking about the holidays! Whether it's gift-giving , entertaining , or curling up to a warm biofuel fireplace , WorkingWonders has what you are looking for in the upcoming winter months. And what's better is that Workin... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
photo: abdallahh via flickr. Mark your calendars for November 23rd. That's when the first aviation biofuel test flight with passengers aboard is scheduled to take place, and the first test flight in Europe. Dutch airline KLM has announced that "a select group of passengers" will be ride in a Boeing 747 powere... Read the full story on TreeHugger
The engineer (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Australian scientists have proved that they can consistently grow large quantities of algae for biofuel in open ponds without contamination.
sustainablog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
My previous post retraced the precipitous decline in the reputation of biofuels that occurred between 2006 and today. In this post I’m going to talk about just a few of the activities going on for “second generation” biofuels (beyond corn, soy and palm oil, wheat…). One of the key features of these initiatives is that they reduce the competition with food crops - something...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and in two new studies, scientists have analyzed the genome structures of bioethanol-producing microorganisms, uncovering genetic clues that will be critical in developing new technologies needed to implement production on a global...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Gerard Wynn BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Draining and burning of the world's peat bogs accounts for about 5.5 percent of global carbon emissions but are currently excluded from governments' climate targets and U.N. talks, a study found on Wednesday. Peat stores around twice as much carbon as all the world's trees, but compared with the well-publicized issues of fossil fuels and forests, the sector...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
Friends of the Earth (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has today decided not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria - yet further evidence that palm oil cannot be a sustainable biofuel
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Backers of algae-based biofuels tout the simplicity of their feedstock. Sunlight and water are all that's needed to convert carbon dioxide into fuel. Now, some scientists are testing the notion that sunlight might be optional. [More]
Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Iowa State's Hans van Leeuwen is being honored as R&D Magazine's 2009 Innovator of the Year for his work to improve biofuel production and his innovations to protect the environment and improve water quality.
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trymi | 12/04/2008
Volkswagen is introducing the first ever Golf to be factory-equipped for functioning with liquified petroleum gas (LPG) in a world debut at the Bologna Motor Show. The bivalent drive that comes with the vehicle lowers fuel costs and harmful emissions. A ten percent reduction in CO2 discharges have been measured when the latest Golf BiFuel runs with LPG compared with typical gasoline engines.
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