by Jj Valesquez    (Victoria Advocate) …Hank Gilbert spoke on the steps of the Victoria County Courthouse, his cowboy hat shading him from the 95-degree heat, about his plan to make Texas a major biofuels producer. 
“What …

by Jean Chemnick    (Platts)  US President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed legislation that would fund emergency assistance to various states, partly through the trimming of $1.5 billion in funding for renewable energy loan guarantees.
The US …

(Newswire)   Scientists at the University of Arkansas and their colleagues have found populations of wild plants with genes from genetically modified canola in the United States.
Globally, canola can interbreed with 40 different weed species, and 25 …

(The Assam Tribune)  The D1 Williamson Magor Bio Fuel Ltd has developed jatropha plantation over 51,000 hectares of land and the plantation carried out by the company in 2007 has started yielding sub-commercial crops … …

(People’s Daily)  China’s industrial experts are advising the government to halt projects making ethanol bio-fuel with corn, as the projects are pushing up corn prices and sparking food security concerns.
Zhao Youshan, director of the Commercial …

byGen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.)  (New York Times) Letter to Editor:  …The consequences include not only huge environmental risks, but a $300 billion-a-year drain from our economy to pay for imported petroleum.
Growth Energy’s Fueling Freedom …

(WTVY)   …Governor Riley will join local officials to celebrate the grand opening of a biodiesel facility that uses cooking oil collected from area restaurants to produce fuel for city vehicles and equipment. The project was …

(Xylogencis, Inc.)  …Two-year-old Xylogenics Inc. also says it plans to license its first bioengineered yeast later this year. This version is intended to boost yields and lower costs of making the automotive fuel ethanol at …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …The announcement was greeted with a hilariously inaccurate story in the New York Times, which apparently confused PetroAlgae’s technology with the OMEGA project developed by NASA (NASA proposed to grow …

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  We’ve written a fair amount about Lord Paul Drayson’s Green Racing efforts and for good reason. Since joining the ALMS circuit in 2008 Paul and Elspeth Drayson, and …

(US Department of Energy)  The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). Eliminated during the last administration, SEAB is being reestablished under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. …

Peter Jamison (SF Weekly)  …The Examiner reported this morning that a facility that renders bones and fat from slaughtered animals into oil is moving to upgrade its facilities to make biodiesel from animal parts, as …

(POET)  Work will focus on maximizing corn cob removal for cellulosic ethanol. 
POET this week will begin harvest research in corn fields near Navasota, Texas to learn more about biomass collection for cellulosic ethanol production.
POET uses …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, here’s a look at some of the more interesting biofuel-related patent applications logged at the US Patent and Trademark Office in recent weeks. The USPTO’s archive is not for …

The 14th annual Energy & Environment Conference, has grown since inception in 1995 to one of USA’s largest,
and most prestigious “must attend” annual networking and educational events,
where over 3,000 delegates, including environmental business leaders,
energy executives, …

Theme:  Developing Bio-renewable Energy from Nature  WCBE-2011 aims to bring together industry leaders, professors, policy makers, investors, and researchers and provide a unique insight into evolving governmental policies, breakthrough technologies, major project updates and investment …

By Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) Imagine. Imagine you’re a small but very smart racing team with a history of innovation and success. 
Following your strengths, you spent a considerable amount of money modifying your …

(PR.com/BFC)  BFC recently created the Rapid Verification ProgramTM a program designed for prospective clients to test their alternative fuels, at tonnage levels, with immediate analysis of the synthesis gas produced and full reports on anticipated …

by Linsey Davis(North Dakota State University)  Two NDSU professors received $309,357 from the National Science Foundation for research to improve conversion and reduce costs of making ethanol from cellulosic biomass. Andriy Voronov, assistant professor in the …

(PR Newswire)  Community college is first to earn BQ-9000 designation, driving business to the state.
Don Heck has heard a lot of talk about making Iowa the “renewable energy capital of the world,” and he thinks …

by Sam Harris   (Charlotte Observer)   …In conjunction with a national program known as “FreeWays to Fuel” ( freewaystofuel.org), researchers at N.C. State University are working to grow canola and sunflower crops along the wasted edges …

(Business Day)  Fourteen Marlborough companies have joined forces to buy 2.5 million litres of biodiesel.
Marlborough Biodiesel User Group’s co-ordinator, Kevin Parker of Blenheim, said that by October, the wine, aquaculture and transport industry operators who had …

(AFP)  Mozambique’s state fuel company has partnered with the private sector to invest 19 million dollars (14 million euros) in biofuel production, state media reported on Monday.
National supplier Petromoc, Portuguese fuel company Galp and biodiesel producer …

by Ivan Gale (The National)  British Airways (BA), which is preparing to become the first airline to buy jet fuel from a planned waste-to-biofuels plant in east London, is expected to scale up the project …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …On the microcrop, bacterial and algael research front.

Lemna…
The Archaea…
Electricity from Waste via microbes…   READ MORE

by Bryant Furlow  (New Mexico Independent)  …Sapphire has inserted genes into its algae that alter the hydrocarbons algae normally produce, making it more like petroleum from which jet fuel and bio-diesel can be manufactured. The …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …Solazyme, which was ranked #1 in the 2009-10 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” by Biofuels Digest readers and selectors, announced that it has raised $52 million in its Series D …

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  During Friday’s qualifying, the E-85 powered number 61 and 62 Ferraris fielded by Risi Competizione of Houston, Texas, stormed to the 1st and 2nd positions in qualifying. 
Ferraris are known …

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) Green Racing fans have been waiting for a weekend like this – a big-time race where biofuel powered cars just dominated. We’re big supporters of the American Le …

The RFA will be co-hosting an Alternative Fuels Educational Workshop with Denver Clean Cities Coalition in Denver on Sept. 9. This is a free workshop and will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. …

By Audrey McAvoy (AP)  The federal government has turned to a 130-year-old Hawaii sugar grower for help in powering the Navy and weaning the nation off a heavy reliance on fossil fuels.
It will spend at least …

(Brighter Energy)  Gevo, the biobutanol technology developer based in Colorado, looks set to acquire an ethanol production plant in southwest Minnesota to use as a base to commercialize its process.
The company has signed definitive agreements to …

by Richard Keller   (Cattle Network)  As renewable fuels continues to be something that people of the world support in general, there also continues to be those complaints that crop production and land use for fuels …

The 2010 Georgetown Energy & Cleantech Conference: Energy at the Intersection of Business and Policy will bring together students and professionals in the Capital Region to discuss the current state of the energy industry. The …

(US Department of Energy)  Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is extending the application deadline for the July 2009 energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies solicitation. The Round …

by Faizan Ahmad (Times of India)  The Centre is contemplating giving permission to Bihar to for production of ethanol in sugar factories even without producing sugar.  … (Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar) said he was …

(Rapid City Journal)  Renewable Fuels Association will again be featured at the Buffalo Chip Campground to promote the use of ethanol-based fuels in motorcycles.
The “Fueled With Pride” partnership will feature educational promotions and merchandising at the …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Biofuels Digest reports that tracked biofuels companies and institutional projects received $3.45 billion in grants and investments in the past 12 months through August 2010.
The Digest released its 120-page review: “Who’s …

by Don Siefkes (E100 Ethanol Group/Des Moines Register)  The recent oil platform blowout in the Gulf of Mexico shows the madness of the United States continuing to use 140 billion gallons of gasoline a year …

by James Clark (KCBD)  A new study done in Lubbock and other parts of Texas will look at growing crops for use as bio-fuels.  The Texas Ag Extension in Lubbock and five other cities will …

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  At this year’s American Coalition for Ethanol Conference & Trade Show, two speakers gave particularly strong arguments for chipping away at the power and monopoly of Big Oil. It …

by Brent Erickson (BIO/New York Times) Letter to Editor:  The refundable investment tax credit for wind, solar and geothermal energy proved the right policy at the right time to mobilize investment. …Parity in tax policies …

by Peter Maass (Foreign Policy) It’s not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn’t stand for it.
Shortly after the Marines …

(National Academies of Science)  Expanding Biofuel Production: Sustainability and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels: Summary of a Workshop (2010)
While energy prices, energy security, and climate change are front and center in the national media, these …

(New Energy Farms)  Growers of the energy crop Miscanthus now have two planters available from New Energy Farms, the leading Miscanthus development company in North America and the EU.
Miscanthus is a perennial grass which is …

by Darrin Ihnen (The Hill/National Corn Growers Association)   …Unfortunately, many of the articles we’re seeing don’t get the facts quite right. The New York Times, for example, asserts that the Renewable Fuel Standard mandates the …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  …Larry Nitz, GM’s executive director of hybrid and electric powertrain engineering, described ethanol as the the best short-term solution. GM has sold 5.5 million flex-fuel vehicles to date. “If the fuel …

by Jens Borken-Kleefeld, Terje Berntsen and Jan Fuglestvedt  (Environmental Science and Technology)  …An unambiguous ranking of the specific climate impact can be established for freight transportation, with shipping and rail having lowest and light trucks …

(Max Planck Society)  …”What’s new about this research is that we have integrated the carbon cycle into our model to obtain the emissions data,” says Erich Roeckner. According to the model, admissible carbon dioxide emissions …

by Patrick Peterson (Florida Today)  Even as last of BP oil spilled on the Gulf Coast dissipates, interest in Florida’s biofuel industry piqued by the spill may linger, and even grow.
For the moment certainly, biofuels such …