Australia's next biggest news is the start of a biodiesel factory that will begin production soon. A 140-million liter $48 Million Biodiesel production facility just opened in the Northern...
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A University of Minnesota research team has just invented a reactive flash volatilization process that heats oil and sugar at a very fast rate which produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide or what is...
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I have often pointed out the current debate that discusses which is more important, food security or energy independence. To ensure that there is enough biomass resources to address both food and fuel...
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Plans are underway for the development of a £24 M energy plant that will utilize only woody biomass as fuel. This plant is being designed for Cromatry Firth in Scotland. The company Balcas is putting...
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chevron Energy Solutions is in the news again, this time for proposing to put up high-efficiency ethanol plants for Ethanex Energy. The high-efficiency ethanol distilleries will be built in Missouri,...
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The project is called Liberty (short for Launch of an Integrated Bio-refinery with Eco-sustainable and Renewable Technologies) and it will be located in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The facility under...
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The Philippines finally has a Biofuel Law! Passed last Wednesday morning by a panel composed of members from the Upper and Lower House of Congress, the law now sets a mandate for all gasoline users...
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Because the United Kingdom has fallen behind its target for biofuel usage, the UK parliament has taken the bold move of considering extra tax incentives. A report from the House of Lords, the upper...
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China is going at it big time, biofuels-wise. According to Wang Zhongying, the director for the Center for Renewable Energy Development of the National Development and reform Commission (NDRC), China...
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Brazil is going all out on Biofuels. Current studies are underway to harness the biodiesel potential of the physic nut tree (Jathropa culcas), a nut producing tree that is drought resistant and the...
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So Spain isn't the only country interested in those green creatures you find in your swimming pool. Apparently, so is Israel. Israel-based alga Technologies is looking for an alternative to the...
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The Osaka Prefecture may be the first producers of Bioethanol coming from wood. The Japanese Environment Ministry has recently launched a project to mass produce eco-friendly Bioethanol fuel from wood...
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I took some time to compare the two most common biofuels pound-for-pound, just to check if what we are promoting to supplant fossil fuels, is in fact logical. Here is a excerpt from the paper entitled...
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