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Ice That Burns, Water and Sunshine Set to be Fuels of the Future

Move over, oil, gasoline, and coal. Researchers are describing key advances in developing new fuels to help supply an energy-hungry world in the 21st Century

3 Nov 2008

Making Diesel Using a Rainforest Fungus

A unique fungus that makes diesel compounds has been discovered living in trees in the rainforest

3 Nov 2008

Update on Sustainable Biofuel Test Flight for Air New Zealand

The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer

3 Nov 2008

BioFuels Projects to Use Waste Biomass to Power Hurricane Ike Cleanup

Biofuels Power Corporation (OTCBB:BFLS) announced today that it will manage a project to use wood chips and other refuse from Hurricane Ike cleanup activities in the metro Houston area to fuel a pilot scale power generation and carbon sequestration project that will be connected to the ERCOT grid and provide up to 4 MW of low cost green electricity for Houston

2 Nov 2008

Greenhouse Gas Research from IBM and University of Saskatchewan Looks to Turn Power Plant Emissions into Useful Products

University of Saskatchewan and IBM are set to collaborate on using high-performance computer chips to work out how to build coal fired electricity plants that emit less carbon dioxide

30 Oct 2008

Renewable Fuels Become Topics of McCain and Obama Campaigns for President

In the past two weeks, key energy advisors to the McCain and Obama presidential campaigns, respectively, shared their views on ethanol

27 Oct 2008

Study to Find Grass to the Power Bioenergy Era

Cornell bioenergy plant experts are learning which field grasses are the best candidates for "dedicated energy" crops in the Northeast, considering the region's climate and soil conditions

23 Oct 2008

Biofuels Research at Sandia Using Enzyme Engineering

Biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been awarded $600,000 in funding for a two-year, Department of Energy-funded effort titled “Development of Saccharifying Enzymes for Commercial Use.”

23 Oct 2008

CleanTech Biofuels Passes First Milestone in Producing Ethanol from Cellulose

CleanTech Biofuels announces that it has fulfilled its first
milestone pursuant to its exclusive worldwide sublicense agreement for technology developed at the University of California, Berkeley for converting cellulose to ethanol

20 Oct 2008