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BioOil a Renewable Liquid Fuel from Dynamotive

News - 23 Jun 2010

Dynamotive offers the BioOil, a renewable liquid fuel. The BioOil is made from environment friendly biomass cellulosic materials such as sawdust and bagasse from sugarcane by utilizing a patented...

Biomass Plants becoming Poplular Again in North America

News - 23 May 2010

Northern California is home to the largest concentration of stand-alone biomass plants in North America. In the 1970’s the state witnessed an explosive rise in the number of plants because of a...

Green Building Products and Polymers and Fuels Derived from Biomass Win Clean Technology Awards

News - 5 Apr 2010

The top awards in the third annual Clean Technology Business Forum and Competition went to Avantium, the developer of a technology for creating polymers and fuels from biomass, and VAST Enterprises...

Plant Species and Diversity are Key factors for Biofuel Production

News - 22 Mar 2010

The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a study by Agricultural Research...

Swedish researcher Wins Nordic Bioenergy Prize

News - 21 Mar 2010

Associate Professor Göran Berndes from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has been awarded the Nordic Council of Ministers' Bioenergy prize. The Bioenergy prize consists of DKK...

European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing Project Launched

News - 1 Mar 2010

The EuroBioRef project (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) coordinated by CNRS, France, has just been launched on the 1st of March 2010 for a 4 years...

Humble Everyday Grass with Potential to Generate Energy

News - 16 Feb 2010

A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass. Researchers at Teesside University’s Contaminated Land and Water Centre began...

Obama to Boost America's Energy Independence

News - 3 Feb 2010

President Barack Obama today announced a series of steps his Administration is taking as part of its comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a...

Mitsubishi and Weyerhaeuser Explore Biomass-to-Energy Business

News - 2 Feb 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company today announced that the two companies signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of collaborating in the...

Microbes that Produce Biofuel from Biomass

News - 28 Jan 2010

A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass....