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Boeing Says Biofuels for Jets Just As Good As Normal Jet Fuel

Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry today released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel

17 Jun 2009

Researchers Discover Process That Could Lead to the Widespread Replacement of Petrochemicals With Bio Based Materials

New process could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass

17 Jun 2009

Ethanol Expansion Completed by Sunoco

Sunoco, Inc announced today that it has completed the previously announced purchase of a 100 million gallons-per-year ethanol manufacturing facility in Volney, New York from Northeast Biofuels, LP for $8.5 million

15 Jun 2009

Students Learn About Biorenewables and Kickstarting a Bioeconomy

Iowa State University's first Intensive Program in Biorenewables attracted 46 students from across the country and around the world. They're spending two weeks in talks, tours, demonstrations and tests that cover the science, the opportunities and the challenges of developing a bioeconomy

14 Jun 2009

Sustainable Biofuels For Aircraft Will Be On the Market in a Couple of Years

Within three to five years, the first drops of sustainable aviation biofuels could be entering the tanks of aircraft, according to the Geneva-based Air Transport Action Group

14 Jun 2009

Green Energy and the Future of Space Propulsion To Be Examined at Conference

Alternative fuels, electric propulsion systems, fuel cells, and futuristic aerospace propulsion systems will take center stage at the 7th International Energy Conversion and Engineering Conference

9 Jun 2009

Biomass Derived Bio-Oil to Replace Fossil Fuels For Heat and Power Generation

Metso and UPM have developed a new concept for the production of biomass-based bio-oil to replace fossil fuels in heating and power generation

8 Jun 2009

BioSolar Called a "True Green" Solar Technology

BioSolar, Inc. is touted in RECHARGE, a news source for the global renewables industry, as a company on a “mission of nothing less than developing plant-derived polymers that could replace the petroleum-based plastics used in the production of the majority of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules.”

3 Jun 2009

Human Health to Benefit From Biofuels

In ongoing research at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), researchers are finding that “a biofuel eliminating even 10-percent of current gasoline pollutant emissions would have a substantial impact on human health in this country, especially in urban areas.”

3 Jun 2009

Online Ethanol Contest Won By "Funky" Entry

The E85 Flex-Fuel Challenge was launched to ask the public, “What is renewable to you?” The contestants were given the opportunity to express what is renewable to them. Thousands of people the world over viewed and voted on E85 Flex-Fuel Challenge submissions, and today, the RFA is proud to announce the Grand Prize winner

3 Jun 2009