Sustainable biofuels could provide Hawaii with enough fuel, food and fiber to significantly reduce it’s dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuel and imported food.
Biofuel plantations could revitalize Hawaii’s agricultural sector, anchoring a cluster of …

When I first heard about algal biodiesel it seemed like the liquid fuels problem had just been solved. Unfortunately like so many things that sound a little too good to be true, so it has …

A joint biofuels study by Sandia National Laboratories and GM’s R&D Center in 2008 concluded that the large-scale production of advanced biofuels produced from plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops in volumes well …

Radoslav Adzic
Portable fuel cells powered directly by ethanol could become a viable technology thanks to a new catalyst that has been developed that breaks a strong bond at the heart of ethanol molecules. This frees …

Liquid Motor Fuel from Biosyncrude Gasification Process Could Cost Around $3/gallon
The Bioliq biosyncrude gasification process used in a large plant with a capacity greater than 1 Million tons per year could produce biosynfuel (biodiesel) for …

The first demonstration flight using a biofuel primarily refined from the energy crop camelina was conducted by Japan Airlines (JAL) last week. It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable …

SolFocus now has nearly $150 million in total funding, to become the most heavily-funded concentrating solar startup around.
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) arrays are tiny, highly-efficient solar cells that have sunlight focused on them by lenses and …

A company focused on the development and commercialization of technology and infrastructure for low-carbon fuels, Primafuel, is partnering with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory (MBL) in an international algae biorefinery program.
According to …

A test algae bioreactor project run by GreenShift Corporation was just awarded a $375,000 grant by the Montana Department of Commerce and may, if it works out as hoped, pave the way for commercialization of …

The first biofuel test flight by a commercial airline was completed yesterday by Air New Zealand using a 50:50 blend of a jatropha-derived synthetic paraffinic kerosene and conventional Jet A1 fuel (named NZ-J50) in an …