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Scientists Work Out How To Use Plants to Make Fuel, Polyester and Other Chemicals

Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery today, reporting in the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunting

15 Jul 2009

Exxon Mobil to Develop Next Generation Biofuels From Algae

Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today an alliance with leading biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc, to research and develop next generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae

14 Jul 2009

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