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How Growing Demand for Ethanol Production and Changes in Land Use

The amount of agricultural land required to produce 15 billion gallons of grain ethanol in the United States by 2015, as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), is likely to be less than 1 percent of total world cropland

16 Nov 2008

Using Natural Plants to Produce Oil

Crude oil is getting more and more expensive, a fact clearly felt by the chemical industry. An alternative source of carbon is biomass, for instance colza and whey, which can likewise be used to produce chemical products

10 Nov 2008

Ethanol Demands Ties Crop Prices to the Petrol Pump, Not to the Grocery Shelves

Ethanol helped drive two years of record profits for grain farmers, but also will hold income down during a looming recession that has already sliced crop prices in half

10 Nov 2008

World's First Biodiesel Trans Continental Jet Flight Completed

Leading the way in the biodiesel industry, Lake Erie Biofuels, LLC has made history with co-sponsoring the first ever biodiesel trans-continental jet flight "Green Flight International."

10 Nov 2008

Scientific Community Asked to Resolve Debate on Net Energy

Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientists are undecided on its merits as a tool

9 Nov 2008

Patagonian Forest Fungus Produces New Type of Diesel Fuel, Myco-Diesel

A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise

3 Nov 2008

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