Biofuels

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A team has discovered a way to cheaply produce mass quantities of hydrogen using a simple sugar abundant in plants, opening potential to mass produce hydrogen fuel in an economical and environmentally friendly for the first time.[read more]

Start your fuel-efficient engines...

More than 1,100 students from 112 schools in the United States and four other countries converged on Houston to show it’s possible to design and drive vehicles that use far less fuel than cars on the road today.[read more]

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There is a bewildering array of messages on climate change. It is little wonder that policy makers, the public, academia and NGOs are collectively at a loss as to how to take the climate issue forward.[read more]

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This year is shaping up to be decisive for ‘cellulosic’ ethanol made from corn stalks and other agricultural waste, as oil companies and the ethanol industry clash over government mandates for the automotive fuel.[read more]

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The ineffectiveness of biofuels/ethanol mandates in advancing America’s energy security, the market-distorting aspects of top-down mandates and associated costs – all argue for scrapping the RFS.[read more]

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The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has been circulating a video titled “40 Facts about Ethanol.” Unfortunately, this list of “facts” that couldn’t be further from factual.[read more]

UK forested land

A simple thought experiment. What if instead of building the 3.2 GW Hinkley C nuclear power station, the UK built a biomass plant instead?[read more]

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Here are some big news items from the biofuel industry, including KLM now operating a weekly flight from New York to Amsterdam on a Boeing 777-200 powered by biofuels.[read more]

EU fuels strategy

EU policy makers propose a mandatory roll-out of alternative fuel infrastructure, including numerical targets for Member States in terms of electric car charging stations, and obligatory natural gas refuelling points for ships.[read more]

In the case of Greenpeace, their organizational wealth has helped institutionalize an ideological bias that threatens progress on issues like climate change and food security.[read more]

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Nearly 10 percent of US ethanol plants have stopped production over the past year, the drought having pushed commodity prices so high that ethanol has become too expensive to produce.[read more]

Renewable Fuels Assoc.

There is nothing simple about boosting E85 sales, which are low and projected to continue to be low. This is for several reasons; first and foremost is weak consumer demand for vehicles that use E85.[read more]

President Obama

President Obama's Energy Security Trust would dedicate oil and gas revenues to fund energy R&D. It's a great idea. How serious is he about making it a reality?[read more]

In October 2012, the European Commission published a proposal to limit global land conversion for biofuel production.[read more]

Despite 2012 troubles, global clean energy markets remain strong and will nearly double within ten years, according to Clean Edge's annual industry report.[read more]