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Ethanol and Biofuels Joins the Social Media World of Twitter and Online Chat

Social media is all the rage today. Either you’re in, or you’re out. Ethanol and the Renewable Fuels Association are in

27 Jul 2009

EPA Considers Raising Ethanol Levels For Gasoline to E15

Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a formal waiver request from the ethanol industry to allow for the blending of up to 15 percent ethanol in a gallon of gasoline

26 Jul 2009

BioFuels and Food To Benefit From Plant Research Funding for CSIRO and USDA

CSIRO and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers, have been awarded a A$1.6 million grant to increase the understanding of genes responsible for growth and yield in grasses for use as bio-energy and food crops

24 Jul 2009

Biofuel Development to Benefit From Fast and Efficient Protein Screening Method

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a fast and efficient way to determine the structure of proteins, shortening a process that often takes years into a matter of days. The high-throughput protein pipeline could allow scientists to expedite the development of biofuels

21 Jul 2009

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