Biofuel News
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The company Celtic Renewables has partnered with a Belgian pilot plant to bring its bio-fuel made from whisky production residue to an industrial scale.
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Biochemists have begun building a one-hectare pilot unit for the production of microalgae in Portugal. The aim is to produce microalgae biomass for biodiesel production in a sustainable manner.
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Duckweed is a tiny floating plant and often seen as an unwanted weed. Now it seems as if the plant could have an economic value: as a source for biofuels.
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A research team has developed a new source of renewable energy: a biofuel made from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar. This yeast produces oils and fats, known as lipids, that can be used in place of petroleum-derived products.
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Scientists have replicated the process whereby fossil fuels were created. Instead of this taking several millennia the process has been completed in under sixty minutes.
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The goal of making cheap hydrogen fuel has been often discussed. Given that some bacteria make hydrogen as a by-product, scientists have looked towards microbes for some answers.
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Scientists trying to understand how the castor oil plant produces some very fatty beans from which oil is refined into biodiesel have found the plan to be more complex than previously realized.
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A research team have engineered a yeast to consume acetic acid, a previously unwanted by-product of the process of converting plant leaves, stems and other tissues into biofuels.
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Scientists have managed to create 580 mg of gasoline per liter of cultured broth by converting in fatty acid. The process uses microorganisms.
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Giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le, located at the Memphis Zoo, could provide a solution for biofuel production. Scientists are searching the feces from the pandas for useful microbes.
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The hunt for the most efficient and, ideally, most environmentally friendly biofuels continues. One possible source for triggering 'power cells' is a common tree fungus.
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Tiny marine creatures called tunicates are being studied in relation to biofuels. Tunicates are seen as a potential source of cellulose, which can be used to produce ethanol.
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Finding the magic catalyst for biofuel production is a major industrial aim. Scientists have outlined the discovery of a potential range of suitable enzymes in fungi thriving in the feces and intestinal tracts of horses.
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Scientists have managed to use a study of the peach genome to identify genetic aspects of other trees used for biofuels. This is to look for ways to make source materials more efficient for biofuel production.
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Scientists based at UC San Diego have engineered a green alga into a rainbow of different colors. The object is to allow different algae to be differentiated as part of biofuel research and drug development.
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The research into biofuels has been limited due to the bacteria normally used only being able to convert part of the cell wall of plant material. An improvement might be in reach due to a bacterium found in the garbage.
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The Midwest is experiencing its worst drought since 1988 , and corn crops are suffering as a result. Shortages are predicted due to the damage already done by the drought. But if drought conditions continue, the damage will be felt deeply by consumers.
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Berkley -
The search for an effective biofuel represents a major area of scientific research and energy company funding. In a new study, a simple microbe isolated from a forest may hold the golden key for a new generation of biofuels.
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The search for new bio-fuels represents potential big business with the decline in available fossil fuels. A team of scientists, backed by the US government, have made significant progress in using bacteria to create a bio-diesel from glucose.
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A significant step for the U.S. Navy has been the recent purchase of 450,000 gallons of biofuels at $15 per gallon---four times the normal price. The goal is to eventually transform the "Great Green Fleet" into one that relies on alternative energy.
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Lafayette -
In an effort to find alternative non-food sources of biodiesel, researchers at the Lafayette campus of the University of Louisiana have turned to the fat of the American alligator as a viable substitute for soybeans and food crops to produce biofuel.
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A chemist based with the United States Department of Agriculture gave algae-based biofuels a failing grade recently when he reviewed the oil as an energy source, reported SciDevnet.
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Patuxent River -
A US Navy fighter plane, the Green Hornet, using a mixture of regular aviation fuel and biofuel will fly on Earth Day, Apr.22, at the US Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, Maryland.
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Researchers report that boosting production of biofuel crops could make it harder to shrink a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Add a top gun DNA scientist, an oil giant and algae and wadda get? A new process from genome scientist J. Craig Venter, funded by ExxonMobile to
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Hamilton, Ontario will become the first Canadian municipality to produce biofuel from human waste after getting a $30 million grant. The technology has been in use in Europe for decades, and allows methane gas to be harvested from human waste.
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Enerkem, a Canada-based biofuel and biochemical producer, has received approval to build a commercial facility to turn municipal waste into biofuels.
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The US aviation industry is leading the world's urgent race to find the best bio-fuel. Boeing, the World Wildlife Fund and leading airlines are funding Yale researchers who have been hard at work to develop a commercially-viable bio-aviation fuel.
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A new analysis by Michigan State University scientists says dire predictions about biofuels are based on a set of assumptions that may not be correct. It would take from 100 to 1,000 years before biofuels could start providing greenhouse gas benefits.
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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet of Air New Zealand, powered in part by jatropha plant oil successfully completed a two-hour flight on Tuesday to test a biofuel: inedible jatropha grow best in poor soil and its oil has a lower freezing point than jet fuel.
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Biofuel Image
Dodo
Photograph of two species of duckweeds (''Wolffia globosa'' and ''Sprodella polyrrhiza'') taken in Waimanalo, Hawai‘i
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Beth Rasala
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, genetically modified to show different colors.
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US Navy
This US Navy F-18 fighter will form part of a biofuel test for Earth Day.
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Nhobgood
Two species of colonial tunicates. Clavelina robusta black and white. Pycnoclavella flava orange.
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University of Cambridge
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green algae)
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James Golden/University of California, San Diego
Cyanobacteria, source of biodiesel
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