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Gasoline Composition is Changing

Increasing availability of renewable fuels like ethanol is changing the composition of the fuels offered to American drivers. With these changes in mind, the Renewable Fuels Foundation (RFF) has released its definitive resource on gasoline quality, "Changes in Gasoline Manual IV".

12 Jul 2009

Turning Waste From Making Beer Into Green Power

Brewing beer creates tonnes of leftover used grains. But that waste can be turned into fuel, as a EUREKA-backed partnership of German and Slovakian developers has shown

12 Jul 2009

Revealing the Genome of Sugarcane Could Bring a Revolution in Environmentally Friendly Energy

Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy's holy grails – harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane

8 Jul 2009

Current Agricultural Land Can Supply The US With All the Food, Fiber and Fuel Required

The acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides further evidence that U.S. farmers can significantly increase production of feed, food, fiber, and fuel without needing to expand the nation’s agricultural land base

30 Jun 2009

Biofuels, Telecommunications and Bio-Related Nanotechnology The Hottest Research Fields on the Planet

Biofuels based on algae are among the hottest areas of R+D in the global intellectual property marketplace, according to an analysis of world patent activity published today

29 Jun 2009

Palm Oil Biodiesel to Be Produced by Vale S.A.

Vale announces a project to produce biodiesel to supply its operations in the Northern region of Brazil, from 2014 onwards

24 Jun 2009

Creating Green Electricity From Biomass

Electricity generated from cellulosic biomass is clean, cost effective, renewable, and environmentally friendly

22 Jun 2009

Carbon Footprint of Jet Fuel Could Be Reduced by Over 80 Percent With The Use of BioFuel

Jet fuel refined from the seeds of a cousin to the cabbage could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent, a researcher at Michigan Technological University has discovered

22 Jun 2009

We Can Win The Climate Change Fight But Will Need New Technologies and a Completely New Energy System by 2050

VTT just published a book entitled 'Energy Visions 2050'. The scenarios described in the book suggest that new technologies coupled with close international climate co-operation could enable us to mitigate climate change, but success will be dependent on renewal of the entire energy system by the year 2050

18 Jun 2009

Scientists Making Biofuel by Milking Oil From Algae

Scientists in Canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis — “milking” oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowned for their intricate, beautifully sculpted shells that resemble fine lacework

17 Jun 2009