Genera Energy breaks ground on Biomass Innovation Park
US Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager recently helped Genera Energy leadership break ground on Tennessee’s Biomass Innovation Park, a...
Producing Electricity and Heat from Biomass
Following ten years of research and development, Talbotts Biomass Energy LTD of Stafford have seen the installation of four of their BG100 biomass generators....
DOE Announces $24 Million for Algal Biofuels Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the investment of up to $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in...
New Yeast Can Ferment More Sugar to Make Cellulosic Bioethanol
Purdue University scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of...
Biofuel Chemistry More Complex Than Petroleum
Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that's exactly what researchers at...
Hydrogen fuel explained
Hydrogen fuel is also an energy carrier. Since hydrogen does not occur on Earth in any significant amounts by itself it must be separated...
Novozymes and Lignol sign deal to make biofuel from wood
Partners to develop a commercially viable process for making ethanol from forestry waste. Aiming for a cost down to $2 per gallon, a price...
First Firing of PetroAlgae’s Biomass Fuel
Siemens Energy has successfully completed the first green diesel engineering, firing of PetroAlgae Inc.’s biocrude fuel, a plant-based, micro-crop biomass material that is processed...
Next Generation of Ethanol a Challenge for Brazil’s Investments
A new partnership started to promote bioethanol development in Brazil. The Brazilian Innovation Agency, Brazil's National Development Bank and FINEP (Research and Projects Financing)...
Future Turkey’s biogas Production Expect to Begin in 2011
At the very beginning of 2011 the fully operational new biogas plant will run in Turkey. The plant, build by Austrian- biogas engineering company...