by Sam Abuelsamid  (AutoBlogGreen)  …According Jim Federico, vehicle line executive for the global mid-size platform, combining direct injection and turbocharging will allow the new engine to get much closer to the volumetric fuel efficiency of …

(TheBahamasWeekly.com/Biofuels International)  Waste collection company Bahamas Waste has begun constructing its $750,000 (€563,000) biofuels facility that could see the production of biodiesel from as early as June this year.
Over 50 rubbish trucks will switch from …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  When we say bioisoprene, think synthetic rubber – but only for a start. Think “platform” for renewable diesel, jet fuel, renewable gasoline, and synthetic adhesives. It replaces fossil-based oils, can …

by Tom Konrad (RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  There are many proposed solutions to the liquid fuels scarcity caused be stagnating (and eventually falling) oil supplies combined with growing demand in emerging economies. Some will be good investments, others won’t. …

(PRNewswire) The Vitol Group today announced the opening of the Seaport Canaveral Terminal on the east coast of Florida. The state-of-the-art terminal, built at a cost of around $130 million, will deliver an independent supply of …

(Ecological Society of America)  Analyzing biofuel sources and predicting effects on water, soil and the atmosphere:  The promise of switchgrass, the challenges for forests and the costs of corn-based ethanol production: Ecological scientists review the many …

(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated a project to revise its standard on biomass terminology and definitions to include additional terms and definitions.  
ANSI/ASABE S593, …

(Neste Oil)  Neste Oil has begun trials of Neste Green 100 diesel produced from 100% renewable raw materials and free of any fossil oil components in cars in Finland.
“This is the first time anywhere that a …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  At the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, the members of the Civil Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) gave their Leadership Award to Jennifer Holmgren, Director of the Renewable Energy and …

(Abengoa Bioenergy)  Biofuels are being attacked. The claim “Bioethanol is the main cause of increased food prices is one of the many falsehoods that are being made to reach the public. Therefore, we decided to …

(BusinessWire)  Rentech, Inc., announced that a successful engineering validation flight was conducted today by United Airlines using Rentech’s certified synthetic jet fuel (RenJet®). The flight marks the first time a U.S. commercial airline has used …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …With respect to energy security, consider this: it is estimated that ten percent of all US military casualties come from the delivery of fuel. Even if it were true that …

Biomass South is the premier event establishing the South’s leadership position in the critical transformation of the global economy from a fossil fuel economy to a biobased renewable resource economy. The basis of the bioeconomy …

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  On March 18, 2010, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing on the state of the cellulosic biofuel industry and its prospects for producing the volumes required by …

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  …The purpose of this project was to determine what incentives best support the commercialization of environmentally sustainable, low carbon, renewable biofuel technologies, to identify ways federal and state incentives can …

by N P Nghiem, K B Hicks, D B Johnston, G Senske, M Kurantz, M Li, J Shetty and G Konieczny-Janda (Biotechnology for Biofuels) Background : US legislation requires the use of advanced biofuels to be …

by Jeremy Shere (EnergyWorld.com)  excerpts from his in-process book on the history of biofuels:
… Promoting alcohol as motor fuel would benefit not only the automobile industry, Ford thought, but also help farmers would find a ready and …

Closed industrial sites such as factories, smelters, foundries, steel mills, and landfills present substantial challenges in establishing new uses after remediation.  However, they also potentially present large, open land areas ripe for reuse.  Many closed …

by Jake Caldwell (Center for American Progress)  …There is no question that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil. One-fifth of the oil consumed in the United States is imported from nations that …

by Shanna Shipman (Gatehouse News Service, HollandSentinel.com)  …(S)ientists and farmers are looking closer at one plant, formerly considered a mere botanical pest, and are discovering a world of beneficial possibilities.
In short, this plant has the …

(Farm Futures)   A recently completed analysis from Purdue University concluded that the California Air Resources Board overestimated the indirect land use change impact of grain-based ethanol by a factor of two in developing its Low …

(US Department of Energy)  Department of Energy and Masdar to research, develop, and promote clean energy solutions.    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted renewable energy initiative, today signed a Memorandum of …

(LetsRecycle.com)   Introducing ambitious Europe-wide targets for the separate collection of both food and garden waste could offer environmental and cost benefits worth more than €7billion (£6 billion) between 2013 and 2020, according to a report …

(New World Energy)  Indonesia based PT New World Energy (NWE) and leading multi-national appliance manufacturer, Bosch and Siemens Home Appliance Group (BSH) of Germany recently partnered together on a pilot project to bring clean cooking …

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  Ethanol producers and corn farmers who were hoping for President Obama to make a strong show of support for the ethanol industry when he appeared at a POET plant in Missouri …

by Mike Voss (Washington (NC) Daily News)  With rising fuel costs taking a toll on the city’s budget, Washington implemented a green-fleets policy to help combat those escalating costs.
Under the policy, city-owned and operated cars …

(Fox News)  When NASCAR takes the green flag in 2011, race cars are expected to be fueled by E15 — a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline.
Hendrick Motorsports is already testing the …

by Meredith Cohn   (The Baltimore Sun)  In response to a national call for homegrown, Earth-friendly fuels to fill Americans’ gas tanks, a couple of University of Maryland researchers are planting trees.
Fuel derived from the hardy, …

(US Department of Energy)  At a Recovery Act Cabinet Meeting today, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for …

U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Mark Schauer (D-MI) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation yesterday that will encourage the next generation of biofuels or fuels made from living things such as plants and algae.  
The …

by George C. Schoneveld, Laura A. German, and Eric Nutakor  (World Bank)  This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Ghanaian legal and institutional framework in managing the trade-offs of large-scale land acquisition, particularly for biofuel …

(American Farmland Trust)  —“The findings from the 2007 National Resources Inventory (NRI) serve as a stark reminder that our nation’s agricultural land base—and the benefits it supplies—is threatened by poorly planned development,” says Jon Scholl, …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In the Opening Address at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, BP Biofuels CEO Philip New said that advanced biofuels “will require partnerships if it is to succeed,” but …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  At the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, Chromatin CEO Daphne Preuss announced that the company is expanding its technology development portfolio to produce fit-for-purpose sorghum as a biofuels feedstock, …

LPP Combustion, LLC, a Columbia, Maryland based innovator in liquid fuel technology, has teamed up with several international partners to market their equipment overseas.  The LPP Technology enables liquid fuels, such as naphtha, kerosene, diesel, …

by Mark Steil (Minnesota Public Radio)  The idea of a biofuel made from something other than food was one of the stars of both the Bush and Obama administration’s energy programs, but the future of …

by Cindy Zimmerman   (DomesticFuel.com)  Thanks to the efforts of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Protec Fuel there are now two new E85 fueling stations near I-10 just west of Jacksonville, Florida.
R H Davis Oil …

by James Pratt (Detroit Alternative Energy Examiner, Examiner.com)  While American-made E85 fuel stations in the Midwest are taking off, E85 fuel availability on the east coast is still lagging. A new program is trying to …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, Rick Gilmore, President/CEO of The GIC Group discussed possible carbon mitigation strategies which the biofuel industry could pursue as U.S. regulations and …

by  Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. (Director, Office of the USDA Chief Scientist)  The USDA has a diverse protfolio of programs supporting the production of advanced biofuels.  In this presentation to the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in …

(PetroWorld.com)   It has been reported that the European Biodiesel Board and the European Bioethanol Fuel Association based in Brussels have both withdrawn their membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels based in Switzerland.
According to Biodigest, …

(News Channel 34)  New York sources of biofuel made from wood, grass and other forms of biomass could reduce New York’s gasoline consumption by as much as 16 percent of projected use in 2020 and …