(ELMIA.se)  Sugar beets from Europe can help solve the conflict between food and bioenergy in the developing world.  “Sugar beets have greater energy content than sugar cane but require rotation with other crops,” explained Jan Öhrvall …

(Michelin)  The new Porsche GT-R Hybrid/Michelin led for a significant amount of last weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hours before being sidelined with an hour remaining. Victory in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup went to Volkswagen’s biogas-fuelled Scirocco …

(General Motors)  Student-Designed and Built Vehicles Put to the Test; Virginia Tech, Penn State Finish Second and Third.
Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego …

(SweeterAlternative.com)  Sugarcane ethanol is a clean, renewable fuel that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by over 60% compared to gasoline and can save money at the pump. These are just a couple of the points delivered by …

by Bob Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Our friends at DeltaWing Racing brought their DeltaWing Prototype to the Indiana Society of Washington DC for their annual Indy 500 reception last week. “Senior Green Motor Sports Correspondent” and …

by Chris Lusvardi (Herald-Review)   Motorists driving through Sullivan (Illinois) now have a place to easily fill up their vehicles with their choice of ethanol blends.
The renovated E-K Petro Mart at 305 S. Hamilton St. offers three …

by Pat Ferrier (Coloradoan.com)  The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins has rejected a $1.1 million experimental energy grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to replace lead-acid batteries on its fleet of forklifts with cleaner …

(Oak Ridge National Lab)  Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving strains of microorganisms used to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol, including a recent modification that could improve the efficiency of …

by Howard Mustoe   (Seattle Times)  …
Cabbies, who collectively spend almost $634,000 a day on diesel, are starting to switch to biodiesel, a fuel derived from vegetable oil, to cut costs. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is also …

(Market Watch)  Freedom Estimates 30,000 Gallons of Grease Collected From Existing Commercial Clients Per Month to be Sold to Processing Facilities at $1.75 Per Gallon.
Freedom Environmental Services announced May 19, 2010, its biofuel consultant, Homestead Inc., has …

(New Energy and Fuel)  University of Oxford researchers are developing a method for the homogeneous conversion of CO2 to methanol, with methanol as the only resulting C1 product.  With momentum building in the methanol powered fuel …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …A lot of people refer to methanol as wood alcohol – referring to the ancient process of extracting methanol from wood, using pyrolysis. In recent years, it has been primarily …

by Annette Cary (TriCityHerald.com)  The Hanford nuclear reservation is getting cleaned up, and some of its land will be available for new uses in 2015, just when Hanford employment is dropping, said Gary Petersen, Tri-City Development …

by John Timmer (ars technica)  If you look at any single source of biofuels, the numbers can seem depressing, as it’s very difficult to obtain enough raw material to account for more than a small percentage …

(BusinessWire)  Khosla Ventures, a venture assistance firm that focuses on cleantech and information technology startups, today announced a strategic partnership with Tony Blair Associates. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his team will leverage …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …Wilson indicated in an exclusive Digest interview that the company intends to qualify its biodiesel under the current specifications for Jet A, based on proprietary technology that has reduced the …

by Ryan McBride (Xconomy.com)  Lebanon, NH-based Mascoma has made strides with its process for producing ethanol from non-food plants such as wood chips and grass. Yet the firm is likely to delay the start of production …

by Jim Lane  (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, 90 US scientists wrote to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to fix accounting standards for greenhouse gas emissions associated with bioenergy projects.
The …

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Grand Isle State Park’s beaches on the tip of a Louisiana marsh sticking into the Gulf of Mexico hosted over 100,000 visitors per year.  After Hurricanes …

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  From time to time, you hear people complain that you can’t make money off of recycling.  Dynamic Fuels gives the lie to that statement.  Not only has it already …

(American LeMans Series)  Environmental Race Within the Race Continues to Grow.
The MICHELIN® GREEN X® Challenge returns to the hills of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (May 22) for the second season of competition having dramatically grown …

by Joel Velasco (SweeterAlternative.com)  …One reason for higher fuel prices is a lack of competition in the market for ethanol.  Economics 101 is pretty clear: consumers win when businesses compete in an open market, because …

(Online International News Network)  Pakistan Provincial Minister for Population Welfare Punjab Neelam Jabbar Ch. has said that the government is paying full attention to develop the alternative fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel to overcome …

(Environmental Protection)  
Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to the article, “Biodiesel Production from …

(Ceres)   Companies take step towards commercialization of low-carbon biofuels from switchgrass and other energy crops.
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. and Novozymes, the world’s largest enzyme provider, have entered a research collaboration to co-develop customized plant …

(Bloomberg Business Week, AP)   …Federal statistics show barley acres jumped from 67,000 in 2009 to 105,000 this year.
David Coleman with the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation says Osage Bio Energy’s plant in Hopewell has created a …

(DomesticFuel.com)  …Illinois legislative officials and corn ethanol representatives will be opening the first blender pump in southern Illinois. The pump in Sullivan is the first of 20 such pumps planned in the state in a …

by David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, and Deepak Rajagopal  (Agricultural and Resource Economics Update — University of California)   …While including Indirect Land Use Effects in assessing the impact of biofuel seems appealing, we will argue here against an …

(Caribbean Net News) The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department of Sustainable Development, on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, launched in Jamaica a project that supports the development and implementation of biofuels policies and programs in the …

(RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  …Including biomass power plants under the EPA’s tailoring rule is a clear policy shift and may imply a change in position for future policy.  The lack of distinction between renewable biomass as an alternative fuel …

by Kevin Sullivan & Ronald Meijer, KEMA (EnergyWorld.com)   …Co-firing may indeed make sense, from cost and environmental perspectives, for many coal-based electricity producers. Co-firing makes use of existing power generation assets and infrastructure with the …

by David Schwartz  (Algal Industry Magazine)   …”Our near term goals are to continue to be the leading voice for the algae industry, to provide our members resources and networking opportunities, such as the 2010 Algae …

by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)  (Fosters.com)  …While ethanol does cut our use of fossil fuels and reduces some harmful air emissions, it also raises some serious concerns. It is a powerful solvent that can damage …

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  … One of the industries most affected is the fishing industry that has been all but shut down. And while fisherman are out of work, seafood prices have already risen more …

by Christine Hall (Houston Business Journal)  Escherichia coli, E. coli for short, is best known as the bacterium that can cause foodborne illnesses, but to researcher Ramon Gonzalez, E. coli can also be an alternative energy …

by Gary Truitt (Hoosier Ag Today)  Indiana corn is regularly exported as food and feed; but, now, more and more Indiana corn is moving onto the world market as fuel. The US ethanol industry is …

by Philip Brasher  (Des Moines Register)  
The United States has a growing new export – ethanol fuel – and a lot is going to of all places the Middle East. New government data shows that nearly …

by Samantha Sunne (The Maneater)   Researchers at the biofuel lab have found a way to skip the drying step.
MU researchers have found a way to convert the coffee grounds commonly found in beverages into biodiesel …

(24-7 Press Release)  Green solutions are the holy grail of industrial innovation today. Every company is anxiously looking for answers to the renewable challenges our world is facing. However, most of these solutions are not …

by Angie Chui (Manilla Bulletin)  Biofuels should not be viewed as a threat to food security. Instead, it should be considered a boone to the industry if the Brazilian experience is any indication.
According to diplomat Andre …

(Renewable Fuels Association)  An industry founded in part on its ability to enhance national energy security is being forced to look beyond U.S. borders for new market growth opportunities. For three decades, the U.S. ethanol industry …

(Environmental Protection Agency)  President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) Winner:  Adarsha Shivakumar, Apoorva Rangan, and Callie Roberts   Pleasant Hill and Martinez, California   -   The Project Jatropha Team promotes the cultivation of Jatropha curcas, a perennial shrub with …

(Environmental Protection Agency)  President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) Winner:  Oak Hall School   Gainesville, Florida   -  The Oak Hall School Biodiesel Project began as a science fair project to collect and process used vegetable oil (UVO) into biodiesel …

(Environmental Protection Agency)   President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) Winner:  Westerly Innovations Network/Westerly Middle School, Westerly, Rhode Island    – This group of middle school students, who are passionate about community service, decided to do their part in …

(Wisconsin Ag Connection)  A legislative proposal that would encourage the development, production and use of renewable fuels in Wisconsin is now the law of the land. On Tuesday, Governor Jim Doyle signed SB 279, also …

by Dan Olson  (Minnesota Public Radio)  …Coca-Cola started using alternative fuel vehicles in 2001. It has more than 250 fleet vehicles in the Twin Cities, and 10 of them are the hybrid-electric delivery trucks, along …

(The Economist)  …(A) team of American researchers is developing a machine to power a vehicle that will fend for itself by gathering material like wood, leaves and grass to be used as a biofuel to run …

(Lignol)  Lignol Energy Corporation, a leading technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Ltd. has successfully completed integrated production campaigns and met operability targets for …

(Chempolis)  Chempolis Oy, engaged in the development and delivery of environmentally sustainable biorefining technologies, has expanded its biorefinery and R&D centre in Oulu (Finland) to the production of bioethanol. This enables the company to strengthen its position …

by Michelle Kautz  (DomesticFuel.com)  Dresser Wayne has announced that all of their standard dispensers have always, and will continue to, cover the use of ethanol blends up to 15 percent ethanol. Warranties on higher blends …

by William Coyle  (Amber Waves)  Next-generation biofuel companies are using a variety of strategies to overcome high initial capital costs, limited access to low-cost biomass, and other hurdles to remain financially viable during pre-commercial development.
…There …

by Mary Rosenthal  (Algal Biomass Organization)  It was a great year for algae – and a great year for the Algal Biomass Organization.  In the past 12 months, the algae industry has reached a number of …

by Andrew Forgrave (Daily Post North Wales)  Waste food and even cow slurry could be used to feed the world using a farm-scale process being pioneered in North Wales.
Start-up company Merlin Biodevelopments has devised a …

by Aniqa Hasan  (Discovery News)  Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created Bio-Grow, a device made from various computer parts that serves as a reservoir to cultivate algae.
The algae can then be used in …

by Steve Clark (The Brownsville Herald)  …Brad Bartilson, Photon8’s president and CEO, says the Traveling Wave Tube technology boosts algae growth by 500 percent, representing a major advance in the profitable conversion of algae to biofuel …

(Kentucky.com)  Alltech President Pearse Lyons said Monday that his company will announce in August the creation of a large algae factory in Kentucky to make bio-fuel and research new approaches for mitigating climate change.
Lyons declined to …

(LehighValleyLive.com)   …The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority today received a $700,000 state grant to promote cleaner transportation through the production and use of alternative biodiesel, natural gas and electricity.   …The money comes from an Alternative Fuel Incentive …

Come learn about algae oil as a potential feedstock to help biodiesel producers become self-sustainable.  It’s one solution to help the US reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create new green jobs.
 
The National Algae Association, a 501(c)6, …

Conference Theme: Jatropha Commercialization Challenge – Charting the Right Way Forward
Key Issues
§         Experiences of Jatropha Growers in: Africa, North & South America, Asia
§         A-Z of Jatropha Production: Propagation, Cultivation, Pruning, Harvesting, Oil Extraction
§         Advances in …

(Times Live)  A Durban company has unveiled a light aircraft engine which can operate on biofuel or liquid petroleum gas.
“Our technology benchmarks South Africa against the finest aviation engineering in the world,” said Andre Schoeman, chairman …

(PR Newswire)  China Integrated Energy, Inc., a leading non-state-owned integrated energy company in the People’s Republic of China, announced today that it has secured production equipment for its new 50,000 ton biodiesel production facility currently …

(SeparationsNow.com)   The burgeoning alternative fuels industry has led to a paralleled increase in related industries based on the side products of fuels processing. A prime example of this is the production of bioethanol from corn in …

by Tom Still (Wisconsin Technology Network) The April 20 explosion onboard the Deepwater Horizon, which killed 11 workers and unleashed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has renewed public calls …

(Louisiana State University)  Louisiana sugarcane farmers will have a new sugarcane variety this fall with the release of L 03-371 from the LSU AgCenter and others on May 5.  
Developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of …

(Science Centric)  Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might be important for ethanol production from plant material, providing insights into the bioethanol alternative to …

by Larry and Judy Kay  (Des Moines Register)  Letter to the Editor   Bloomberg ran a story about the rising price of meat on April 26, suggesting that the demand for ethanol was to blame. This …

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  …Now, agribusiness companies Monsanto Co., Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Deere and Co. see profits in stover and are collaborating on research into economical ways of harvesting, processing and …

by Roy Roberson (Southeast Farm Press)   American farmers are producing enough corn to meet food needs, livestock feed needs and to provide a start for the country’s effort to develop a sustainable energy source to …

by Susan Daker (Dow Jones Newswire)   …Sunoco has signaled that it would be interested in delving into other biofuels ventures.
On Friday, Golembeski said the company is conducting feasibility studies on whether or not it can …

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), a leader in industrial biotechnology, is pleased to announce the fifth annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy. The latest issues in industrial biotechnology will be featured, algae, …

by Ben Lazarus  (Biofuels Digest, American World Services)  Looks at cassava, sugarcane, cellulosic feedstocks (rice husks, bagasse), spare production capacity, and export opportunities in Thailand.  READ MORE

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   …Although equity investors (primarily strategics and venture capitalists) and the government grant market has continued to participate strongly in biofuels investing, the debt market that typically represents up to 80 …

by Richard Black (BBC News)  A major change of approach is needed if society is to restrain climate change, according to a report from a self-styled “eclectic” group of academics.
…The academics advocate concentrating first on …

Dr. Robert Wisner (AgMRC)   A fuel ethanol blending wall has been anticipated for the last three years.  When reached, it would halt growth of the ethanol industry or initially would cause demand growth to fall …

by Merle Anderson (Grand Forks Herald)  …Basically, three types of energy are used to produce ethanol: natural gas, electricity and fossil fuel. Most of the energy used to produce ethanol comes from natural gas and electricity.
By …

by Michael Vaughan  (Globe and Mail)  The ever worsening ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and on U.S. shorelines has undermined political support for offshore drilling and is focusing attention on greater reliance on renewable …

(Eco-Car Challenge)  Year Two of the EcoCAR Challenge has proven to be a test of wills for the 16 North American universities participating in this fierce competition. Over the last academic year, EcoCAR teams have spent …

by Andres Pollack   (New York Times)  Federal regulators gave clearance Wednesday for a large and controversial field test of genetically engineered trees planned for seven states stretching from Florida to Texas.
The test is meant to …

(AllAfrica)  A planned biofuel project in Magarini District (Kenya) has put Malindi County Council and ecologists on a collision course.
This follows a request by the National Environment Management Authority for residents’ views on the project, …

by Debra Schell  (Press and Journal)  The Obama Administration’s quest to wean the nation off foreign oil by turning to renewable energy sources brought U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to Middletown Friday.
Vilsack, along …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  A team from the investment bank Stern Brothers, the law firms Mintz Levin and Kreig DeVault have developed a bond-oriented approach that has received favorable initial reaction from the USDA, and …

by B.A. (Ben) Thorp and Masood Akhtar  (Ahead of the Curve, TAPPI)  …The first question to ask is, why do I need to know any of this? Reasons can range from increasing one’s knowledge to helping …

(PRNewswire)  The number of next generation biofuels projects reached 200 globally, a report from the Global Biofuels Center (GBC) recently announced, beyond the more than 100 Brazilian bioethanol facilities that will qualify as “Advanced Biofuels” in …

ATW‘s Eco-Aviation Conference was the first and still is the only conference in North America devoted to addressing a broad cross section of topics arising from commercial aviation’s impact on the environment.
We invite students to …

by Brian Jennings   (The Hill)  …Today, conventional oil supplies are being tapped out and maintaining our current level of addiction forces us to hunt for scarce deposits in deepwater wells or in the Canadian tar …

by Michelle Kautz  (DomesticFuel.com)   The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute (AFVI) 2010 Conference is now in full swing in Las Vegas. The 16th annual event is offering its attendees a wide array of workshops and sessions …

by Wendy Lee (Star Tribune)  With its university research, sources of biomass and track record of innovation, some people think Minnesota has the tools to become a major leader in the green economy. But will it …

“Innovations to Improve Conversion & Optimize Mass Yields”
“Commercializing BTL Biorefinery Projects for Production of
Diesel & Jet Fuels”
Advancements in catalyst and membrane technology are increasing the productivity and efficiency of Biomass to Liquids production in the …

The question of how to efficiently utilise residual waste has become imperative for numerous reasons – increasing landfill taxes, the drive for a low carbon economy, the requirements of resource efficiency and the search for …

by Mackinnon Lawrence (Biomass Intel)  …While aggressive with GHG reduction provisions, the American Power Act (APA) is short on biofuel-specific provisions…
Some of the key strategies for incentivizing low carbon fuels under the bill include increasing …

(Sandia National Laboratory)  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 Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing.   The journal …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Argentina, the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber has released its latest study in its State of the Biofuels Industry series, covering the B5 and E5 mandates that began this year.
Ethanol highlights: …

(the Cophenhagen Post)  Danish companies Danisco and Novozymes retread infringement issue, but this time over a different patent.
Patent infringements over enzymes used in biofuels are again at issue between Danish companies Danisco and Novozymes, with the …

(PR Newswire)  The Advanced BioFuels Association applauded the leadership of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) as he recently introduced a biofuels tax incentive bill that extends the Investment Tax Credit to advanced biofuels.  
The Nelson bill, S. …

(Brookhaven National Laboratory)  You might think bacteria that “invade” trees are there to cause certain destruction. But like the helpful bacteria that live within our guts, some microbes help plants thrive. To find out what …

by Ariel Schwartz  (Inhabitat)  Plenty of airlines are testing out biofuels in passenger jets, but helicopters have largely been ignored — until now. Australia-based Delta Helicopters is developing what it says is the first biofuel-capable diesel …

(SNV)  …SNV together with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) implemented a project to analyse the socioeconomic and environmental risks and benefits caused by the production of biofuels and energy crops in (agricultural areas within) the Peruvian …

by Eduard Gismatullin  (Bloomberg Business Week)  
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, expects the share of renewable energy in transport fuels worldwide to double over the next 10 years.
The portion of renewables is already …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …The invite-only meeting, which attracted more than 100 attendees, was structured around two panels, one focused primarily on policy and led by USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber and featuring biofuels …

by Jerry Hagstrom  (Ag Week)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said at a White House clean energy forum May 6 that USDA may have to take bigger chances with its business loan guarantees if it is …