by Rob Fisher (Circle Track)  …CT: What inspired the concept of green racing?
LS: The concept of green racing really started with some of us at DOE and EPA talking about how to properly advance technology in …

(Renewable Fuel Association)  …Let’s start with what the scientists say. Those scientists who served on federal agency panels convened in recent years to examine hypoxia issues concluded that the hypoxia zone has many causes and it …

(Genera)  Renewable Energy Crops Could Reduce Maintenance Costs
A perennial grass known for producing cellulosic ethanol may now have another use.  Genera Energy LLC, a Knoxville-based renewable energy company, recently planted several plots of switchgrass along interstate …

The livestock sector can lead the agricultural economy to higher net farm income, assuming the farm economy benefits from a recovering general U.S. economy.  
That analysis tops a 2010 baseline report prepared by the University of …

(Reuters)  Henan Tianguan Group Co. Ltd, China’s second largest fuel ethanol producer, plans to build plants in Southeast Asia to produce the renewable fuel and send it to China, company president Zhang Xiaoyang said on …

(PRInside.com) This summer, Butalco will use its proprietary new yeast technology to produce biofuel from agricultural waste in a pilot plant in Southern Germany. Butalco’s new microbial catalysts will enable up to 30% increased yields in …

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The U.S. EPA has come up with a new system for renewable identification number (RINs) that should be easier to use as well as cut down on the possibility …

 by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA) What is “green racing” really?  Using biofuels in race cars is certainly part of it; urging the design and testing of efficient engines that take maximum advantage of biofuels’ …

(Pangea Quarterly Newsletter)  … In 2009, PANGEA staff spent a great deal of time looking at the food vs. fuel controversy and working to find ways to re-frame the discussion into one of food and …

by Amy Westervelt (Solve Climate)  There was a sense of deja vu in the biofuels sector this week when U.S. Energy Secretary Chu announced nearly $80 million in funding for research and development of algae-based …

LEARN About Latest Innovations In Algae Growing Systems, State of The Art Equipment, as Well as Harvesters and Extractors.  SEE Well-Known Director and Alternative Energy Advocate and Enjoy an Award Winning Documentary.   MEET Your Industry …

by Mark Coulton (The Australian)  … Carbon neutrality may be achievable without resorting to a hefty new tax if the government employed a skerrick of the initiative and ingenuity shown by the team at Townsville’s …

by Jim  Motavalli (New York Times) Calling for what amounts to a Marshall Plan to start manufacturing plug-in hybrids and battery-electric cars, a group of executives from the auto and utility industries, and prospective plug-in fleet …

by Charlotte LoBuono (heatingoil.com)  A Canadian energy company has proposed building a biorefinery to produce dimethyl ether, or DME, the CBC reported Wednesday. In November, Calgary-based GV Energy signed a memorandum of understanding with the …

by Yong Jiang  and Scott M. Swinton  (International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology) 
Advanced biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol are of great interest in the USA. With agriculture being the major source of feedstock for …

by Christain Macavei (Daily Californian)  UC Berkeley researchers now have a better understanding of algae, which may have implications for making biofuels more economically feasible.   In a study published in the journal Nature Nov. 26, the researchers …

by Steven Sexton, Deepak Rajagopal, Gal Hochman, David Zilberman, David Roland-Holst (California Agriculture) The biofuel industry has received billions of dollars in support from governments around the world, as political leaders respond to new environmental …

by Laura E. Bartley, Pamela C. Ronald (California Agriculture) A key strategy for biofuel production is making use of the chemical energy stored in plant cell walls. Cell walls are a strong meshwork of sugar chains …

by Matt Defosse (Plastics Today)  Demand for bioplastics increasingly is created by the pull of major brand owners and OEMs. In this instance, carton-creating giant Tetra Pak has tasked plastics and chemicals supplier Braskem to …

(GreenAirOnline)  A conference held by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) concluded last week in Rio de Janeiro with the formation of the Global Framework on Aviation and Alternative Fuels (GFAAF). It will take the …

by Kevin Clark  (Sunderland Echo)  The move to electric vehicles being spearheaded on Wearside could lead to a rise in greenhouses gases, claims a new report.   The Environmental Transport Association (ETA), which campaigns for sustainable …

The objective of this study was to determine the fuel efficiencies and emission
profiles of flex fuel vehicles operating on different ethanol blends (E10, E20, E30, and
E85).
 
… The E85 fuel blend consumed less BTU’s per mile …

by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA (Alt Energy Stocks)  Biochar, or amending soil with biomass-derived carbon, shows great potential to improve the productivity of soils, as well as to increase the utilization of fertilizers by plants, …

(Discover)  The oil-rich and weedy plant jatropha has been hailed as the most promising source of biofuel on the planet, and one airline has already begun testing a jatropha-derived fuel in its jumbo jets. But …

Neste Oil has increased its capacity to produce NExBTL renewable diesel following the start-up of a second dedicated NExBTL plant at the company’s main refinery at Porvoo. The new plant will be capable of producing …

The latest research note from the UK’s Policy Exchange recommends that bio-jet fuels should become a priority for the aviation industry; that they represent the only viable option for significantly reducing emissions from aviation without cutting the number …

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA Rural Development has approved a $25 million loan to enable a Minnesota biodiesel facility to diversify its operations and significantly expand the production of advanced biofuels.  “The …

Sudan will begin producing ethanol from sugar cane with a target of 200 million litres in two years, President Omar al-Beshir said on Wednesday at the inauguration of a new plant.  State company Kenana, which …

On May 12, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing to examine the economic, energy security, climate, and other environmental issues associated with biofuels—liquid fuels derived from plant, animal, or other organic …

Created by Advanced Biofuels USA, Inc., this series of primers available on the Education/Primer pages of the web site describes, step by step,

what advanced biofuels are,
why they are important, 
what key laws and regulations have been passed …

FREE  9 AM to 5 PM  The Sustainable Energy Coalition—in cooperation with Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucuses—presents the 12th annual Congressional Renewable Energy & …

Origin Oil will be providing process details of its innovative single-step process to extract oil from algae. BioCentrics will be unveiling its algae pro closed loop photobioreactor, and a prototype commercial-scale vertical closed-loop photobioreactor will …

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered …