Sky’s the Limit on Navy’s Biofuel Focus
by Bill Loveless (USA Today) U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has made alternative energy a top priority since taking office in 2009, but this week he took his commitment to new heights, literally. The...
View ArticleSwitchcraft: Metabolix Bioconverts Itself into Yield10, Focuses on Crop Yields
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Massachusetts we have had more signs of the pivoting underway in the advanced bioeconomy with the news that Metabolix is changing its name to Yield10 Bioscience and...
View ArticleMontana State University Scientist Wins Grant to Improve Camelina Seed Qualities
(Montana State University/Biomass Magazine) A Montana State University scientist has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to research ways to improve...
View ArticleCamelina, Canola Show Promise as Cool-Season Crops
(The Crop Science Society of America/Biodiesel Magazine) ... In California, growers usually choose warm-season crops: ones that grow from March to October. But extension agronomist Stephen Kaffka and...
View ArticleClimate Change: Biofuels ‘Could Limit Jet Contrails’
by Jonathan Amos (BBC) Some close-quarter flying has provided new insights into aircraft pollution. -- US space agency-led scientists flew small, instrumented, chase planes directly in the exhaust...
View ArticleCouple Biodiesel Oil Crops Technology Provides More Oil per Acre, Advanced...
(Advanced Biofuel Center/AltEnergyMag.com) ... The Advanced Biofuel Center (ABC) recently announced progress on its work with its mission "more Biodiesel oil per hectare" by developing two or more...
View ArticleMore More RHD: REG Expanding Drop-In Diesel?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) From Iowa we received news that Renewable Energy Group has agreed to acquire approximately 82 acres of land at its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery from Lion Copolymer, for...
View ArticleStudy Evaluates Camelina’s Varied Response to Location
(American Society of Agronomy/Biomass Magazine) A new study, led by Augustine Obour at Kansas State University, looks at how three varieties of camelina perform when grown in two different regions...
View ArticleRSB Report Outlines 2016 Achievements
by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Biomass Magazine) The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials recently released a report reviewing its 2016 activities and highlighting its increased impact...
View ArticleShell Goes Carbon Negative, Signs Commercial-Scale Deal with SBI
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... Petroleum fuels emit 94 grams of CO2 per megajoule of energy. Shell’s latest deal with SBI Bioenergy gives it access to a fuel that emits Minus 14. That means the...
View ArticleNo Passports, More Turbulence and Standing Cabins – 18 Ways Flying Is Going...
by Natalie Paris (The Telegraph) … Within 10 years … Wider use of biofuels — Biofuels could be the answer. Efforts to reduce pollution from aircraft have focused on the use of biofuels mixed...
View ArticleThe Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Camelina’s Biofuels Potential
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Can camelina oil be a viable substitute as a biodiesel feedstocks, given that palm oil has received so much negative attention in Europe at least. In this deck, industry...
View ArticleCamelina, Canola Show Promise as Cool-Season Crops
(The Crop Science Society of America/Biodiesel Magazine) … In California, growers usually choose warm-season crops: ones that grow from March to October. But extension agronomist Stephen Kaffka and...
View ArticleClimate Change: Biofuels ‘Could Limit Jet Contrails’
by Jonathan Amos (BBC) Some close-quarter flying has provided new insights into aircraft pollution. — US space agency-led scientists flew small, instrumented, chase planes directly in the exhaust...
View ArticleCouple Biodiesel Oil Crops Technology Provides More Oil per Acre, Advanced...
(Advanced Biofuel Center/AltEnergyMag.com) … The Advanced Biofuel Center (ABC) recently announced progress on its work with its mission “more Biodiesel oil per hectare” by developing two or more...
View ArticleMore More RHD: REG Expanding Drop-In Diesel?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) From Iowa we received news that Renewable Energy Group has agreed to acquire approximately 82 acres of land at its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery from Lion Copolymer, for...
View ArticleStudy Evaluates Camelina’s Varied Response to Location
(American Society of Agronomy/Biomass Magazine) A new study, led by Augustine Obour at Kansas State University, looks at how three varieties of camelina perform when grown in two different regions...
View ArticleRSB Report Outlines 2016 Achievements
by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Biomass Magazine) The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials recently released a report reviewing its 2016 activities and highlighting its increased impact...
View ArticleShell Goes Carbon Negative, Signs Commercial-Scale Deal with SBI
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … Petroleum fuels emit 94 grams of CO2 per megajoule of energy. Shell’s latest deal with SBI Bioenergy gives it access to a fuel that emits Minus 14. That means the...
View ArticleNo Passports, More Turbulence and Standing Cabins – 18 Ways Flying Is Going...
by Natalie Paris (The Telegraph) … Within 10 years … Wider use of biofuels — Biofuels could be the answer. Efforts to reduce pollution from aircraft have focused on the use of biofuels mixed...
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