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Gevo Awarded Contract to Supply Jet Fuel to U.S. Air Force

(BusinessWire/Yahoo!Finance)  Air Force Purchase is for Jet Engine Testing and Feasibility Flight Demonstration Gevo, Inc., a leading renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, received a $5 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet

September 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Gevo, the Panicked Investor, and the Aviation Fuels Opportunity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  30 billion gallons of aviation fuels demand, and Gevo’s got a technology to produce it, using retrofitted ethanol plants, and a path to fueling planes at parity with conventional jet fuel prices. Game-changer? ...Why are investors

September 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Lignin Biojet Project Wins DARPA Funding

by Erin Voegele (Biorefining Magazine)  A researcher at Washington State University has been selected to receive a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to support the development of a technology to produce biobased jet fuel. Bin Yang,

September 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Aeromexico Plane to Use Biofuel on Costa Rica Flight

(Fox News Latino)  Aeromexico, Mexico's largest airline, will begin offering service Tuesday from Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica, using planes that burn a 25 percent biofuel mixture, the ASA airport network said. The plane will use the biofuel mixture as part

September 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Imperium Renewables Helping Bring Biojet fuel to the Northwest

by Bryan Sims (Biodiesel Magazine)  Seattle, Wash.-based biodiesel producer Imperium Renewables and the U.S. DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have reported positive results in a joint development for the production of biomass-based drop-in jet fuel in the Pacific Northwest. So

September 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Major Investments to Spur Innovation and Job Creation in Research, Development and Production of Next Generation Biofuels

(US Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects today aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America's dependence on foreign oil. Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than

September 28, 2011 Read Full Article

ZeaChem and Partners Awarded $40 million USDA Grant

(ZeaChem)  ZeaChem Will Produce “Drop-In” Advanced Biofuels at Boardman, Oregon Biorefinery ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today (September 28, 2011) announced it has been awarded part of a $40

September 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Singapore Airlines Looks to Biofuels as It Becomes Latest Airline to Join Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group

(GreenAirOnline)  Singapore Airlines has become the latest member of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG) that was set up in 2008 to accelerate the development and commercialisation of lower-carbon renewable aviation fuels derived from environmentally and socially sustainable sources.

September 26, 2011 Read Full Article

From Feedstocks to Finance: Upscaling Sustainable Biofuels

(Netzwerk Biotreibstoffe News)  Deployment of innovative biofuels technologies, possible, but requires strong political commitment, say European biofuels stakeholders. The annual meeting of European biofuels stakeholders stressed that advanced biofuels technologies are now available and called for robust support to ensure

September 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Neste Oil Starts Up Europe's Largest Renewable Diesel Plant in Rotterdam

(Neste Oil)  Neste Oil has successfully started up Europe's largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Production of NExBTL renewable diesel at the new plant will be ramped up on a phased basis. The start-up is a significant

September 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Conversion Pathways for Bioenergy: Upgrading of Intermediates: Hybrid Routes to Fuels and Chemicals

Laurel Harmon (LanzaTech Inc.) LanzaTech, Inc., was founded in January 2005 by CSO Dr. Sean Simpson in New Zealand. Funds were mainly from New Zealand government US$ 10M, Khosla Ventures US$ 12M in 2007 and Qiming Ventures US$

September 20, 2011 Read Full Article

'Salty Dogs' Prowler Undertakes Its First Biofuel Flight

by Dave Allport (Key.Aero/military)  A US Navy EA-6B Prowler has made the type's first flight on a biofuel blend at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. An EA-6B Prowler successfully completed its inaugural biofuel flight at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, on September 16,

September 20, 2011 Read Full Article

N.J. Company Eyes Plainfield Township as Potential Site for Biofuel Plant

by Tom Shortell (LehighValleyLive.com)  A New Jersey company is considering building a biorefinery in Plainfield Township that would convert tall grass and wood pellets into fuel, but no official plans have been submitted to the township. Primus Green Energy, based out of

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Crapo, Udall Introduce Bill to Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

(Senator Mike Crapo)  Would make renewable fuels standard more "technology neutral" U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)and Tom Udall (D-NM)recently introduced bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate that would help level the playing field for advanced biofuels like algae by reforming the Renewable

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

US, Australia Sign Key Aviation Biofuels Accord

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  MOU covers feedstock readiness, sustainability, data sharing, fuels certification, plus development of new alternative fuel pathways in alcohol conversion, pyrolysis and synthetic biology. Is the agreement, driven by the private sector and formalized by government, a

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Air

by Vivienne Raper  (Wall Street Journal)  Jumbo jets powered by chip fat and algae could be appearing on the horizon soon ...But behind the eye-catching headlines, debate rages about whether enough cheap fuel made from renewable organic materials could be produced

September 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Memo to Microalgae, Frankencritters and Biovarmints: Aloha Means I Love You

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Hawaii goes all in on microalgae to provide fuel, food, fiber and power to grow its energy-starved Mid-Pacific economy and fit its environmental values ...Hawaii has no fossil fuel resources of its own. Not to mention

September 16, 2011 Read Full Article

China is Interested in Biofuels – Why Not the West?

by John C.K. Daly (OilPrice.com/Clean Techies)   ...According to PetroChina’s Petrochemical Research Institute deputy chief engineer Fu Xingguo, China is looking at generating 933,000 tons annually of fuel ethanol and 165,000 tons of biodiesel. According to Fu, China is looking to

September 15, 2011 Read Full Article

UK Firm Produces High-Energy 'Hycadiesel'

by Luke Geiver (Biodiesel Magazine)  Hycagen Ltd., a U.K.-based advanced biofuel startup, uses the same feedstocks traditionally used by the biodiesel industry, but Hycagen doesn’t make biodiesel.   ...Hycagen produces a fuel they call Hycadiesel. The fuel is made using

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Jatenergy Sells Jatropha Oil to Lufthansa

by Erin Voegele (Biodiesel Magazine)  Australia-based Jatenergy Ltd. recently announced that it has sold 200 metric tons crude jatropha oil at $1,000 per metric ton to Lufthansa, a Germany-based airline, for use in its long-term trial of renewable jet fuel.

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

AliphaJet Announces New Technology for Making Advanced Renewable Drop-in Jet Biofuel Breakthrough Commercially-Scalable Process Produces Jet Fuels at Costs Competitive to Fossil Fuel

(AliphaJet)  – AliphaJet, Inc. announced that the company has developed and successfully demonstrated a highly cost-effective catalytic method for making jet biofuel from renewable products such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids. AliphaJet’s BoxCar™ catalytic de-oxygenation process significantly reduces capital and operating costs

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

SG Biofuels Teams with JETBIO and Aviation Leaders to Deploy Jatropha for Bio Jet Fuel in Brazil

(SG Biofuels)  SG Biofuels (SGB) today (September 13, 2011) announced it has teamed with JETBIO, leader of a multi-stakeholder initiative including Airbus, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bioventures Brasil, Rio Pardo Bioenergia, Air BP and TAM Airlines, to accelerate the production of

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Fly the (Hic!) Friendly Skies: Renewable Jet Fuel from Alcohol

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But a handful of companies such as Cobalt, Gevo, Terrabon, LanzaTech and ZeaChem, are shaking up the emerging aviation biofuels markets by developing renewable aviation fuels from ethanol and/or biobutanol. ...“An alcohol molecule, looking at it

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Australian Firm to Provide Jatropha Biofuel to Lufthansa for Testing

by Joao Peixe  (OilPrice.com)  Australia’s Jatenergy Limited energy company is to provide crude jatropha oil to Lufthansa for flight trials. The Lufthansa tests are the world’s first, long-term trial of renewable jet fuel and will be used on Lufthansa’s regularly scheduled

September 13, 2011 Read Full Article

The Green Strike Group: The Fuels, The Force, The Skinny

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...Tactically, a Green Strike Group, powered by renewable diesel-electric engines, nuclear power and aviation biofuels, is able to operate independent of fossil fuel supply line threat or disruption. In the near term, this is

September 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Southwest Research Institute Launches International Alternative Fuel Technology Center

(Southwest Research Institute)  Southwest Research Institute launched a collaborative effort to assist our clients to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and to address governmental mandates for alternative fuel production and tightened emissions standards. SwRI's new International Alternative Fuel Technology Center

September 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Embraer and GE Successfully Conclude Bio-Jet Fuel Tests

(Embraer)  Program benchmarks the performance of E-Jets and CF34-8E engines powered with sustainable HEFA biofuel Embraer and GE held a series of test flights this week (September 2, 2011), with an EMBRAER 170 jet flying from the Company’s Gavião Peixoto facilities.

September 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Primus Green Energy Expands Drop-In Fuel Development Plant in N.J., Increases Total Production Capacity

(BusinessWire/Primus Green Energy)  Primus Green Energy (“Primus”), the leader in renewable, drop-in fuel, has expanded its U.S.-based development facility in New Jersey, enabling the company to build its complete, integrated thermal-chemical process. Primus’ game-changing process for converting biomass into gasoline

September 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Veterans, Politicians Team Up in Battle to Change Energy Policy

by Steve Leone (Renewable Energy World)  While the price of military intervention is often measured in American lives, in this case it was the staggering amount of American dollars that most clearly made his point. In today’s dollars, keeping just

September 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Propel Blue Angels Over Labor Day Weekend

by Leon Kaye  (TriplePundit.com)  ...This year, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the long-form name for the Blue Angels, wowed visitors with their pilots’ stunts at the Patuxent Naval Air Station in southern Maryland over the weekend. Only this time, the weekend

September 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Dynamotive Announces that GE Joined Consortium Established to Develop Australian Biofuel

(MarketWatch/Dynamotive)  GE today (September 1, 12011) announced that it has joined Virgin Australia and a consortium of other partners to research and develop commercial biofuel for the aviation industry. The consortium will focus on pyrolytic conversion of biomass from mallee eucalypt

September 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Department of Energy Announces up to $12 Million in Investments to Support Development and Production of Drop-In Biofuels

(US Department of Energy)  In support of the Obama Administration's comprehensive efforts to strengthen U.S. energy security,  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced up to $12 million to fund three small-scale projects in Illinois, Wisconsin, and North Carolina that

September 01, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA, Departments of Energy and Navy Seek Input from Industry to Advance Biofuels for Military and Commercial Transportation

(US Department of Agriculture)  Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today announced the next step in the creation of a public-private partnership to develop drop-in advanced biofuels. The Secretaries

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Honeywell’s UOP Breaks Ground on Facility to Convert Biomass to Green Transportation Fuels

(Honeywell)  UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that it has begun construction in Hawaii of a biofuels demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into green transportation fuels. Backed by a $25 million U.S. Department of

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

First Navy Trainer Flies on Biofuel

(U.S. Naval Air Systems Command)     The Navy’s alternative energy program expanded yesterday when a T-45 training aircraft completed a successful biofuel flight at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The “Salty Dogs” of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Investor Interest in U.S. Biofuel Production Set to Soar

by John Daly (OilPrice.com)  ...While it remains to be seen how the joint investments between the U.S. government and private sector will work in practice, the announcement nevertheless represents an unprecedented commitment by several federal departments to stimulate the production

August 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Department of the Navy Goes Green with Osprey

(US Navy/Naval Air Systems Command)   The Navy and Marine Corps team reached another milestone toward achieving the Secretary of the Navy’s energy goals by successfully flying a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey on biofuel Aug. 10 at Naval Air Station

August 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Firm's US Deal Paves Way for Major Plant

by Bill Moore (Stuff.co.nz)  Nelson-based biofuel company Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has announced a deal with a Texas-based renewable fuel company that paves the way for the building of a multimillion-dollar biofuels plant. Its agreement is with CRI Catalyst Company, a provider

August 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Farmers Sought for Biofuel Project

(The Record)  Farm officials, hoping to get California farmers to plant as much as 25,000 acres of camelina, an oilseed, for a biomass start-up project are offering incentives to growers in San Joaquin County and other areas of the Central

August 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Funding Secured for Brazilian Research Study into the Sustainability of Renewable Jet Fuel Sourced from Sugarcane

(GreenAir Online)   The regional initiative launched in June by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide finance for renewable jet fuel projects in Latin America and the Caribbean has made its first grant. The IDB, along with aircraft manufacturers

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Production: A Threat to Livelihoods

by Mario Osava (Aljazeera)  Biofuels are an alternative energy source that can drive local development by generating jobs, know-how and technology. But they can also cause social damage, as locals fear in the case of industrial-scale exploitation of babassu palm

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Official: Ag Economy Is Sound but Rural Communities Need Boost

by Ross Dolan (The Daily Republic)  The nation’s agricultural economy is sound but many rural communities are not reaping the benefits, said Dallas Tonsager, undersecretary for rural development with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The South Dakota native would like

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

The Great Jatropha Race

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  With new research on environmental and biomedical benefits of Jatropha is appearing regularly, it’s no wonder that the race for patents is heating up, and fast. Last year Mission New Energy began a joint venture

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels USA Is Disappointed in White House Plan for National Security Drop-In Biofuels Investment

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  As a tie-in to President Obama’s current bus tour promoting his job creation plans, the White House has issued a press release promoting a three-year $510 million dollar plan to fund “drop-in” biofuel

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

President Obama Announces Major Initiative to Spur Biofuels Industry and Enhance America's Energy Security

(The White House)  USDA, Department of Energy and Navy Partner to Advance Biofuels to Fuel Military and Commercial Transportation, Displace Need for Foreign Oil, and Strengthen Rural America President Obama today (August 16, 2011) announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture,

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Avjet Biotech Releases Podcast on Red Wolf Refining System

(AvJet Biotech/PR.com)  Unique Refining System Creates Aviation Biofuel from Renewable Native Feedstocks Avjet Biotech, Inc., a leading developer of small distributive refining systems in the 10 million gallon per year range and parent company of Red Wolf Refining, has announced the

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Biomass 2011: Replace the Whole Barrel, Supply the Whole Market Presentations Posted

(US Department of Energy)  ...More than 600 speakers, moderators, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees were able to listen to discussions about the ongoing challenges and achievements in the bioenergy industry. Biomass 2011 addressed key issues in important areas, such as feedstock supply, conversion pathways,

August 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Fund Biofuel from Carbon Tax Says Qantas

by Steve Creedy (The Australian)  QANTAS wants the federal government to use some of its carbon tax revenue to back sustainable aviation biofuel projects. Aviation missed out on compensation for the tax, and Qantas expects it to add $3.50 to fares

August 12, 2011 Read Full Article

SMBTA News: Mission NewEnergy Provides Entrepreneurship for Indian Farmers and Sustainable Biofuel for Air Travel

(Yahoo!Finance)  At a time when the global economy is in need of every boost possible, Mission NewEnergy ... is teaching impoverished farmers in India how to operate a small business by cultivating Jatropha plants for world consumption. Over 1,940,000 acres of otherwise

August 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Cantwell Applauds Launch of Jet Biofuels Program that Will Support Green Jobs Statewide

(AirportBusiness.com) Today (August 9, 2011)  U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) toured the cutting-edge laboratories at Targeted Growth in Seattle and announced the launch of Washington state's first large-scale program for the growth of camelina sativa, a promising non-food feedstock for

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Aviation Calls For Government Backing To Boost Biofuels

by Graham Warwick (Aviation Week)  The U.S. aviation industry is pressing Congress to extend funding for goverment programs providing support to start up commercial-scale production of renewable biofuels. ...Work on the 2012 Farm Bill is getting under way, and witnesses at

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels' Potential to Transform the Global Economy

by John C.K. Daly (Oilprice.com)  After years of existing largely as an environmentalist's fantasy, commercial production of biofuels for the world civil aviation industry is slowly becoming a fact, with production starting up across three continents. The leading contenders for biofuel

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Aeromexico Makes First Trans-Oceanic Flight Using Biofuel

(Mexican Airlines)  This evening, Mexico's flagship carrier, AeroMexico, will make the world’s first Trans-oceanic flight using aviation biofuel, once again placing Mexico in the limelight with regard to the use of biofuels in the global aviation sector. Flying from Mexico City (MEX) to Madrid

August 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Google & NASA Partner to Host Green Flight Challenge With $1.65 Million Prize

by Jessica Dailey  (Inhabitat)  ... While we love any airplane that doesn’t spew massive amounts of carbon emissions, the fact is that most planes are still gas-guzzling beasts, which is why search giant Google has teamed up with NASA to sponsor

August 02, 2011 Read Full Article

The Loaves and the Fishes: Drop-In Renewable Biofuels, from Unlikely Sources

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...A conversation with Terrabon COO Simon Upfill-Brown ...BD: Fuels or chemicals, for the first project? SU-B: We are still very much focused on fuel, we feel that fuel is the way to go for the first plant

August 02, 2011 Read Full Article

SWAFEA Final Report Lays Groundwork for the Deployment of Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Europe

(GreenAirOnline)  Although the aviation sector has a good track record in reducing its environmental impact through efficiency gains, it is highly unlikely to reduce or even stabilise its emissions through this means alone, but biofuels present a real potential for

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Mozambique Sells Its First Biofuel Export to Lufthansa

(defenseWEb)  Mozambique’s Sun Biofuels has made its first export by selling 30 tons of jatropha oil to German airline Lufthansa. The company’s director of corporate affairs Luis Gouveia on Friday told the Mozambican newspaper Diario de Mozambique of the sale. He

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Terrabon, Inc. Awarded $9.6 Million by Logos Technologies to Produce 6000 Liters of Renewable Jet Fuel for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

(Terrabon, Inc.)  Terrabon, Inc., a Houston-based bioenergy company, announced today that it has been awarded a $9.6 million, 18-month contract by Logos Technologies to design a more economical and renewable jet fuel (BioJet TM ) production solution for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing and Embraer to Fund Sugarcane Biofuel Study

by Kerry Reals  (FlightGlobal)  Boeing and Embraer are to jointly fund a sustainability analysis into producing renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane. The study, which is also being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will evaluate the environmental effects of

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Airline's Pioneering Biofuel Flight Grounded after Delivery Hitch

(Click Green)  The UK's first commercial flight powered by sustainable biofuels has been postponed after delivery problems, airline Thomson Airways confirmed this afternoon. Thomson Airways' flight TOM7424 from Birmingham to Palma was scheduled to make aviation history tomorrow by being the

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

New Standards Are Here, But How Will Aviation Biofuel Market Evolve?

by Steve Leone (Renewable Energy World)  ...In August, Air China will embark on its first flight with biofuels grown in China through a partnership between Petro China and UOP. The hope for biofuel producers is that the Chinese government will

July 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Lufthansa Takes off towards a New Era of Sustainably Fuelled Regular Commercial Scheduled Flights

(GreenAirOnline)  The first in Lufthansa’s long-heralded series of commercial scheduled sustainable biofuel flights finally took off on Friday morning (July 15). Save for camera-wielding media, the 50-minute flight from Hamburg to Frankfurt passed uneventfully for passengers taking the shuttle. Four

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

US Air Force Wants Biofuel Switch

(News24)  The US Air Force is ready to switch to biofuels to help power its warplanes but the price of alternative fuels remains too high, military officials said. Anxious to reduce its reliance on oil, the Air Force has approved the

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Mexican Interjet Flight 2605 Making First Commercial Round-Trip Flight with Honeywell Green Jet Fuel

(Green Car Congress)  Following a series of successful demonstration flights and approval of the fuel for commercial transportation through ASTM International, Mexican airline Interjet today is operating the first round trip commercial passenger flight using Honeywell Green Jet Fuel derived

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

PTTAR Shelves Jet Biofuel Project

by Nalin Viboonchart  (The Nation)  PTT Aromatics and Refining (PTTAR) has put on hold its US$150-million (Bt4.5 billion) jet-biofuel project, given the exorbitant production cost and the likelihood that the price of the fuel would deter potential buyers. Prajya Phinyawat, chief operating

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Finnair to Operate Amsterdam-Helsinki Biofuel Flight

by Kerry Reals (FlightGlobal)  Finnair has become the latest airline to announce plans to operate flights partially-powered by biofuel. The carrier plans to operate a biofuel flight between Amsterdam Schiphol and Helsinki in the week beginning 18 July, using either an Airbus

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

REG Files for $100M IPO: The Complete Digest Analysis

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...A successful IPO would cap a remarkable comeback for biodiesel from the depths of “The Troubles” in 2008-09. It’s a second time through for REG: the company filed for a $150 million IPO in 2007,

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Fuel - Crude Thoughts

(IATA) Challenges in the jet fuel supply chain are intensifying, making investment in biofuels essential ...(T)he airline industry fuel bill rose more than 11% to $139 billion in 2010, equivalent to 26% of operating expenses. ...How airlines manage fuel is therefore

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Biojet and UWI Partner in Biofuels

(University of West Indies Cave Hill)  UWI-Cave Hill and BioJet International Initiate Research and Commercial Biofuels Partnership. The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, and BioJet International, Ltd. jointly announce a biosciences research and commercial partnership.  The University

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

A Few Questions for Honeywell's Jim Rekoske on Biojet

by Beth Evans (The Barrel)  Two significant events this summer should help boost commercial production of bio-based jet fuel: the approval of a new fuel standard and the recent completion of a successful first trans-Atlantic flight. In July, international standards developer

July 07, 2011 Read Full Article

BioJet Supports Aviation Biofuel Approval With One Billion Gallon Availability

(BioJet International Ltd./PR NewsWire) BioJet International Ltd., announced that it joins the worldwide Aviation Industry celebrating approval of bio-derived jet fuel for commercial use (ASTM International revised D7566).  Concurrent with this approval, and to aid in development of the

July 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Momentum Gathering towards Aviation Biofuels Commercialisation as US and European Policy-Makers Signal Support

(GreenAirOnline)  The momentum driving the introduction of aviation biofuels received a significant boost with a number of initiatives and events taking place at last week’s Paris Air Show. While the transatlantic biofuel flights conducted by Boeing and Honeywell attracted wide

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Thomson Airways to Become First UK Sustainable Jet Biofuels Operator as It Announces Start of Weekly Flights

(GreenAirOnline)  UK holiday airline Thomson Airways is to operate the UK’s first sustainable biofuel commercial flight at the end of this month and start regular weekly flights from September on routes from Birmingham. A 50/50 blend of used cooking oil

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

ASTM Aviation Fuel Standard Now Specifies Bioderived Components

(ASTM/PR NewsWire)  Renewable fuels can now be blended with conventional commercial and military jet (or gas turbine) fuel through requirements in the newly issued edition of ASTM D7566-11, Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons. The revised standard was approved

July 01, 2011 Read Full Article

ASBTA Urges Biofuel Conversion by Airlines to Keep Small Businesses Traveling and Growing

(The American Small Business Travelers Alliance)  The American Small Business Travelers Alliance (ASBTA) serves America's 27 million small companies by working to improve service, reduce costs and maintain safety and comfort in air travel. "Public and private sector experts agree that

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

KLM Operates First Scheduled Flight on Biokerosene

(KLM)  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines today became the first airline in the world to operate a commercial flight carrying 171 passengers on biokerosene. Flight KL1233 – a Boeing 737-800 – took off this afternoon at 12:30 hours from Schiphol bound

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Major Financial Institution to Support Sustainable Aviation Biofuel Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

(GreenAirOnline)  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced an initiative help finance public and private institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop a sustainable jet biofuel industry from locally grown organic feedstock. The initiative will fund consultancy services,

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Detroit Metro Land to Be Used to Grow Bioenergy Crops

By Carole Shifrin  (Air Transport World)  Detroit Metro operator Wayne County Airport Authority said it has agreed to partner with Michigan State University Extension to grow, harvest and process bioenergy crops on the property of DTW and another of the authority's

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Heliae and Azmark to Test Algae-Based Jet Fuels

(Algae Industry Magazine)   Heliae Development, LLC, an Arizona-based algae technology company, and Azmark Aero Systems, an Arizona-based designer and manufacturer of small gas turbine engines, have announced an agreement to develop and test algae derived jet fuels. Azmark’s small,

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Paris Air Show Highlights Biofuels

by Nicholas Zifcak (The Epoch Times) Biofuels are getting a lot of attention this week at the Paris Air Show.Airlines have shown their support of the technology and its viability with Honeywell and Boeing planes using a blend of biofuel and

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

European Advanced Biofuels Flight Path Initiative

(European Commission)  The European Commission's services, in close coordination with Airbus, leading European airlines (Lufthansa, Air France/KLM, & British Airways) and key European biofuel producers (Choren Industries, Neste Oil, Biomass Technology Group and UOP), have launched an exciting new industry

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Solazyme Announces Successful MH 60S Seahawk Helicopter Test Flight on a 50/50 Blend of Algal Derived Solajet HRJ-5® Jet Fue

(Solazyme)  Applauds ASTM International historic preliminary approval of algae based biofuels for aviation Solazyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: SZYM), a renewable oil and bioproducts company, announced today that the US Navy successfully demonstrated Solazyme’s 100% algal-derived jet fuel, SolajetHRJ-5®, in an MH-60S Seahawk

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Paris When It Sizzles: EADS Announces Algae-Powered, Mach 4-Hurtling ZEHST Rocket Plane at Paris Air Show; Nine Airlines Sign Garbage-to-Biofuels Fuel Deals with Solena

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The 100-passenger aircraft will use a dual-propulsion system. Conventional engines will utilize algae-base biofuels for take-off and landing. Ramjet rocket engines, powered by biofuels-based hydrogen and oxygen with water vapor exhaust, will take the plane

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Asia Scrambles to Hasten Biofuels Scale-Up

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  Suddenly it’s scale-up time in Asia and everyone is scrambling for biofuels. Only a few years ago no one believed this could happen. Indian Railways was the only national-scale producer and user of biofuels

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Are Creating a Big Buzz in Military

by Renee Schoof (McClatchy Newspapers/Seattle Times)  Maj. Aaron Jelinek of the Air Force Thunderbirds flies his F-16 upside down, rolls it, thunders past his teammates in breathtaking close charges and joins five other fighter jets in precision formation. And for the

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

KLM Launches Commercial Flights Amsterdam–Paris on Biofuel

(KLM)  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has taken another important step in aviation sustainability. In September KLM will launch more than 200 flights being operated on biokerosene between Amsterdam and Paris. “KLM has once again shown it is stimulating the development

June 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Le Bourget Biofuels: Honeywell, Boeing Complete Transatlantic Biofuels Fly-Ins, as Paris Air Show Opens

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In France, the global aviation biofuels movement is descending on the 49th Paris Air Show, which kicks off today with 340,000 attendees, 2100 exhibitors and 3,000 journalists expected to be on hand. Exhibitors and session participants

June 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Fly to Paris Air Show on Sustainable Biofuel

(Boeing)  Boeing will fly the new 747-8 Freighter to its international air show debut in a doubly historic fashion, flying the airplane across the Atlantic Ocean to the Paris Air Show using a renewable aviation jet fuel – the world's

June 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Navy on Coal-to-Liquids: No, Thanks

by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire)  A top Navy official said Friday (June 3,2011) that the department isn’t interested in developing coal-based transportation fuels as an alternative to oil, noting there are more promising options. Tom Hicks, the Navy’s deputy assistant secretary

June 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Honeywell: The Lindbergh of Aviation Biofuels

by Mark Halper (SmartPlanet)  Jet biofuels should get a boost this Friday, when Honeywell has scheduled a trans-Atlantic flight heading to Paris from Morristown, N.J., powered by Honeywell-branded Green Jet Fuel. The corporate jet, a Gulfstream 6450, will carry executives from

June 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Shows How Australia and New Zealand Can Establish Their Own Sustainable Aviation Biofuels Industry

(GreenAirOnline)  A study to determine the feasibility of the Australian and New Zealand aviation sector using sustainable biofuels to meet industry carbon reduction targets concludes that a bio-derived jet fuel industry could decrease aviation emissions by 17 per cent and

June 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Runway Cleared for Aviation Biofuels Surge in 2012

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ASTM gives preliminary OK to Bio-SPK fuel spec; path to 58B gallon aviation biofuels market comes clearer, closer In Washington, Bloomberg is reporting that ASTM has given preliminary approval to the blending of biofuels produced from algal,

June 10, 2011 Read Full Article

EERC Produces Jet Fuel from Coal/Biomass Feedstock

by Luke Geiver  (Biorefining Magazine)  If early fuel property tests are any indication of future success for the Energy & Environmental Research Center’s (EERC) work on a combined coal and biomass feedstock-based fuel, the future looks pretty good. Led by

June 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Don’t Discount Biofuels

by John Gardner (Xconomy)  ...I have had the privilege of spending the last year in an effort called Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest and learned much from over forty stakeholders in the project. Let me offer four observations that give me some

June 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Virgin Looks for Group Action on Biofuels

by Will Horton (FlightGlobal)   ...The airlines - V Australia,Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic - have significant stage length operations at Los Angeles that would permit them to maximise bio-derived jet fuel deployment at a single, shared location.  READ MORE and

June 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Germany: Established a New Association for Aviation Biofuel

(Avionews)   It has been founded today, on Wednesday, June 8, Aireg, Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy, a German association which pursues the aim of finding alternatives to fossil fuels. ...In Aireg there is the confluence of many enterprises, organizations and

June 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Independence Bio-Products Receives Patent for Low-Cost Algae Production System

(PRWeb/Independence Bio-Products)  Independence Bio-Products (IBP) of Dublin, Ohio has received a patent from U.S. Patent Office covering the company’s low-cost open-pond system for producing algae for biofuels and animal feeds system year-round, regardless of climate or season. IBP’s system uses

June 03, 2011 Read Full Article

The Defense Department Is a Significant Driver of New Technology

by Brent Erickson (BIO/Biofuels Digest)  To carry out military and humanitarian missions around the world, U.S. forces require reliable fuel supplies and secure supply lines. The military is as much at the mercy of high oil and gasoline prices as

June 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels About to Take Off - Just Not Yet

by John Daly (OiPrice.com)  ...So why, no U.S. production? The answers are both complex and simple. First, new biofuels are up against the well established ethanol lobby. Secondly, given renewables’ battle against the ethanol Goliath, there are yet exist no subsidies, crop insurance

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Plan Needs Nudge from Congress

by Robert F. Dorr  (Air Force Times)  ...Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz has been the driving force behind the service’s conservation movement, both because it saves the environment and it saves money. And for that he deserves a salute. Schwartz couldn’t

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Middle Eastern Airlines Studying Biofuels as Efficient Alternative

by Ivan Gale  (The National)  Middle Eastern airlines are being urged to invest in biofuels programmes to help their industry achieve ambitious targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Aviation produces about 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but growth

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

New Sustainable 'Bio-Derived' Jet Fuel Industry Is Achievable

(CSIRO)   Establishing an economically and environmentally beneficial, 'bio-derived' Australian and New Zealand aviation fuels industry is a viable proposition, according to a report compiled by CSIRO in collaboration with the region’s major aviation industry players. The report, Flight Path to Sustainable

May 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Groundbreaking Study Details Viable Pathway to Develop Sustainable Aviation Biofuels Industry in Northwest

(Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest)  Political support needed to jumpstart growth of domestic biofuels industry The Pacific Northwest has the diverse feedstocks, fuel-delivery infrastructure and political will needed to create a viable biofuels industry capable of reducing greenhouse gases and meeting the

May 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Majestic Muck: Can Pond Scum Revive Airlines?

by Jennifer Booton (Fox Business)  ...Many aviation and renewable-energy experts have expressed optimism that biofuels made from algae and certain plants will one day lessen airlines’ dependency on petroleum, while lowering painfully high operating costs and increasing sustainability. The environmentally friendly

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

As Jet Fuel Prices Soar, a Green Option Nears the Runway

by Marianne Lavelle   (National Geographic News)  ...The standards-setting body ASTM International is set to vote this summer on certification of hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel. Tests both in the laboratory and in the air (led by a most prodigious jet

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazilian Jet Biofuel Ventures Blossom as Jatropha 'Field to Wing' Platform Adds a New International R&D Partner

(GreenAirOnline)  Global industrial crops technology company Quinvita is the latest to join a new biofuel alliance that has come together to produce sustainable jet biofuel from Brazilian-grown jatropha. The Brazilian Bio-Jetfuel Platform is a collaboration led by Curcas Diesel Brasil

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

World Economic Forum Report Identifies Biofuels as the 'Game Changer' to Achieve Aviation Emissions Targets

(GreenAirOnline)  An aviation sustainability report from the World Economic Forum finds that achieving the industry’s target of halving its carbon emissions by 2050 will be a significant challenge given an 85 per cent CO2 emissions reduction gap. This is despite

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

MIT Adds to the Cap-and-Trade Debate

by James Ott (Aviation Week)  A report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should be required reading for environmental policymakers. “The Impact of Climate Policy on US Aviation” was issued this week by the Transportation Research Board. It is

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Air Force Thunderbirds to Demonstrate Flights with Biomass Fuels

(WJLA TV ABC7)  The United States Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration team has been testing the use of "green" biomass fuels. The public is invited to watch flights burning the alternative fuel for the first time at the Joint Services Open

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Analyser Detects FAMEs in Aviation Turbine Fuel

(Laboratory Talk)  PAC has released an analyser that is designed to detect traces of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs), more widely known as biodiesel, in aviation turbine fuel. ...(T)here is concern that other products, using the same production, storage and transport

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

ATAG's Steele: Airline Industry Needs Biofuel

by Aaron Karp (ATW)  Air Transport Action Group Executive Director Paul Steele said the airline industry failing to achieve its stated goal of a 1.5% improvement in fuel efficiency/carbon dioxide emissions annually through 2020 and CO2-neutral growth beyond 2020 would

May 18, 2011 Read Full Article

$70 Billion Investment Required to Meet Aviation Biofuel Ambitions, although Industry denies Setting Target

(GreenAirOnline)  An investment of up to $70 billion will be required to meet aviation biofuel targets, and is needed now, said Mitch Hawkins, the CEO of BioJet International, a company that aims to become a leading global feedstock producer and

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Matrix Genetics Pursues the Algae Fuel Dream in the Lab, Not With Big Steel Tanks, Giant Ponds

by Luke Timmerman  (Xconomy Seattle)  ...McCormick, one of the featured speakers at next week’s Xconomy event on alternative fuels, has led this quiet effort for the past three years inside Seattle-based Targeted Growth. While Targeted Growth grabbed headlines with hybrid camelina

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

SG Biofuels Signs Customers for 250,000 Acres of Hybrid Jatropha Seed

(SG Biofuels/PRNewsWire)  SG Biofuels, a bioenergy crop company using breeding and biotechnology to develop elite hybrid seeds of Jatropha, today announced it has signed customers for the deployment of 250,000 acres of Jatropha using its JMax™ hybrid seeds.  Jatropha is

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel 2011: The Real Opportunity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  An interview with James Garton, president of Mission Biofuels USA subsidiary. We look at the jatropha 1.0 catastrophe, actual biodiesel capacity in the US, palm biodiesel, the RFS, and more. ...The company broke into the US

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Argentinean Algae Company Confident Its Jet Fuel Will Be Ready Soon

by Kerry Reals (FlightGlobal)  An Argentinian company claims to be at the forefront of producing affordable jet fuel from microalgae, and is confident that its product will be widely available to the aviation industry "very soon". Biocombustibles del Chubut(BC) has developed

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Linde and Sapphire Energy Announce Deal to Co-Develop CO2 Management System for Algae Fuel Production

(PR NewsWire)  The technology group, The Linde Group, and Sapphire Energy, Inc., one of the world's leaders in algae-based crude oil, today announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement to co-develop a low-cost system to deliver carbon dioxide

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Aviation Fuel from Ohio Grown Algae Tested

(Independence Bio-Products/PR Web)  Independence Bio-Products (IBP) of Dublin, Ohio has produced algae oil, which has been converted to jet fuel and then tested by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The algae was grown in

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Ontario Government Selects Rentech’s New Renewable Jet Fuel Project for Long-Term Supply of Biomass from Crown Forests

(Rentech) Province of Ontario selects Rentech’s newly-announced Olympiad Project in the Township of White River for proposed supply of up to 1.1 million cubic metres/year of wood fibre to produce renewable RenJet®, a certified low-carbon jet fuel Up to C$200 million funding

May 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest

(Climate Solutions)  Alaska Airlines, The Boeing Company, Port of Seattle, Port of Portland, Spokane International Airport, and Washington State University have initiated a strategic stakeholder process to develop a "Flight Path" (action plan)  to produce sustainable aviation biofuel in the

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Heliae – Measuring Algae by the Barrel

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)   ...Heliae was formed about four years ago when the team met two professors at Arizona State University (ASU) who told them about a new process by which they could take algae and turn it into

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Interjet and Airbus Conduct First Biofuel Flight in Mexico

(Travel Daily News) The Consejo de Promocion Turistica de Mexico praised Mexico’s domestic carrier, Interjet, and Airbus for joining the ranks of Air New Zealand and Continental Airlines in leading the way for the international aviation industry by using more

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Iberia and AENA Invest in Algae Biofuel Project in Madrid

by Kerry Reals (FlightGlobal)  Iberia has teamed up with Spanish airports operator AENA and AlgaEnergy to establish a microalgae-based biofuel research project at Madrid Barajas Airport. ...The research plant will capture and use carbon dioxide from Iberia's aircraft engine bench test

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Cobalt Raises $20M in Series D Round; Parsons & Whittemore Joins

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The additional capital will enable Cobalt to build out its new 470,000 gallon per year demonstration plant in Alpena, Michigan, which will be the world’s first cellulosic biorefinery for the production of the industrial chemical

May 03, 2011 Read Full Article

European Roadmap to Cut Transport Carbon Emissions by 60% by 2050 marks out a less ambitious route for Aviation

(GreenAirOnline)  The landmark White Paper on EU transport policy through to 2050, presented recently by the European Commission, unveiled a roadmap for reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent across all transport sectors relative to 1990. However, it now appears

May 02, 2011 Read Full Article

QUINVITA and the Brazilian Bio-Jetfuel Platform Sign a Strategic Alliance Agreement on Jatropha curcas R&D

The Brazilian Bio-Jetfuel Platform and the Industrial Crops Technology Company, QUINVITA announces today they entered into a strategic alliance on Research and Development of Jatropha production and processing. Under the signed agreement, QUINVITA joins the Brazilian Bio-Jetfuel Platform and will

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Solix BioSystems™ Sells and Delivers First Commercial Lumian™ AGS4000

(Solix BioSystems)  Solix BioSystems today announced the first sale and delivery of its Lumian AGS4000 high productivity, fully integrated algae cultivation system to New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Lumian AGS4000 is located at NMSU’s Fabian Garcia

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Gevo and Mustang Sign Agreement for Bio-Jet Fuel

(Gevo)  Gevo, Inc., a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, today announced it has signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP (Mustang) to convert Gevo's renewable isobutanol to bio-jet fuel. This effort will focus on the downstream

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Israel Corp. Unit Reports Biomass Fuel Breakthrough

by Amiram Barkat and Yael Gruntman  (Globes Israel's Business Arena)  Primus Green Energy has an agreement with Lockheed Martin to develop bio-jet fuel for the US Defense Department. Primus Green Energy Ltd., a US subsidiary of Israel Corporation's  renewable energy unit IC

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Germany Joins up with Lufthansa to Sponsor Biofuel Six Times Worse than Fossil Fuel

by William McLennan (The Ecologist)  Campaigners are outraged over airline Lufthansa and German government funding for jatropha biofuels trial The German government is financing a leading European airline’s biofuel trials despite claims from environmental groups it could cause emissions six time

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA is Working to Create Supply, Demand for Biofuels

by Heather Thorstensen   (AgriNews.com)   The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to create more supply and demand for renewable fuels nationwide, said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. ...During a media briefing, he discussed how the government isfunding research into different

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Avjet Biotech Signs License Agreement With NC State To Commercialize Aviation Biofuel Technologies

(PRLog/Avjet Biotech)    Avjet Biotech, Inc. (ABI), a leading developer of small distributive refining systems in the 10 to 15 million gallon per year range and parent company of Red Wolf Refining, has announced that it has concluded a license

April 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil Arms Show Offers Partnership Opportunities

(UPI.com)  ..."We look forward to meeting with potential customers from Brazil and all over Latin America to discuss how we can meet their near-term and future defense and security requirements," said Joe McAndrew, Boeing vice president of International Business Development

April 18, 2011 Read Full Article

GEISS: Biofuel Takes Off with U.S. Air Force

by Kevin Geiss (The Washington Times)  ...Since that first well, our national demand for fuel has grown astronomically. We have seen this in the Defense Department as well. Since the Vietnam War, there has been a 175 percent increase in the

April 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Aviation May Be Biofuels’ Killer App

by Mark Ingebretsen  (Investor Place)  ...While the military may see biofuels as a way of guaranteeing supply in times of crises, commercial aviation likely sees them as a way to control costs. As National Defense Business and Technology, noted recently, “Fuel is

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Editorial: Welcome Back Carbon?

(Air Transport World)   ...(A)bsent major advances in wind and solar technology, the role of fossil fuels in powering the world economy will grow, not shrink, over the coming decades notwithstanding concerns about global warming. The implications for the airline industry

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Vision 2050: a European Future Where Society Has Recognised Travel by Air is Environmentally Friendly

(GreenAirOnline)   The public in the year 2050 is informed, understands and is convinced that the aviation sector has made the utmost progress in mitigating its environmental impacts and therefore considers air travel is environmentally sustainable. So says a new

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

NASA Awards $16.5 Million towards Research into Green Technologies for Aircraft Entering Service after 2030

(GreenAirOnline)  Four industry and academic teams have been awarded contracts by NASA to continue research on technologies that could enable aircraft entering service between 2030 and 2035 to further reduce fuel consumption, emissions and noise. In NASA-speak, this time period

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Mayrhuber Urges Teamwork to Make Aviation More Sustainable

By Michael Gubisch  (FlightGlobal)  Former Lufthansa chief executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber has called on European aviation industry stakeholders and policy makers to work closer together to make air transport more efficient and to focus on sustainability as a means to maintain the region's

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Gevo: The Owner’s Manual

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The Gevo GIFT system – three innovations in one First, its magic bug that indeed, produces isobutanol at a far higher rate, yield and concentration than traditional yeasts. Second, an extraction system that gets the

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing, Yale University Conduct Jatropha Sustainability Study

by Bryan Sims (Biodiesel Magazine)  Boeing issued research conducted by Yale University’s School of Environmental Studies that showed significant potential for jatropha-based aviation fuel. The study showed that, if cultivated properly, jatropha could deliver strong environmental and socioeconomic benefits in

April 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Enabling the Navy's Great Green Fleet

by Louise Poirier (Fuel Magazine/Ethanol and Biofuels News/Hart Energy)   Amid persistent concerns about supplying the enormous energy demands of the United States' armed forces, the military is pursuing alternatives, and the Department of the Navy is leading the way. For

April 07, 2011 Read Full Article

EU's Airline Emission Goals under Scrutiny

(Euractiv.com)   When the European Commission unveiled plans to slash transport CO2 emissions by 60% by 2050 last week, many assumed the figure would apply to road, rail and air travel in the same way. But EurActiv has learned that

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Interjet and Airbus Test First Biofuel Flight in Mexico

(Biofuels International)   Interjet and Airbus tested their first Jatropha-based biofuel flight in Mexico on 1 April 2011, using an Airbus A320 aircraft. The biofuel comes from the local region’s Jatropha plant which is harvested in the southern state of Chiapas,

April 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Spanish Government, Iberia Airlines, and Airbus Launch Aviation Biofuel Initiative

(Biofuels Journal)  The Spanish government, Iberia Airlines and Airbus have signed an agreement to develop a complete Spanish ‘value chain’ for sustainable and renewable aviation bio-fuel for commercial use. Other key members are expected to join the agreement shortly. Signatories to the agreement signed

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Chicken Fat Studied by NASA as Eco-friendly Jet Fuel

by Michael Finneran   (Yahoo! News/PR NewsWire)  In an RV nicknamed after an urban assault vehicle, scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center traveled cross-country this month for an experiment with eco-friendly jet fuel. The Langley team drove 2,600 miles (4,184 km)

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Focus on Cost and Sustainability Issues as Aviation and Biofuel Sectors Meet Face to Face in Rotterdam

(GreenAirOnline)  Sustainability and economics dominated debate at last week’s World Biofuels Market (WBM) event in Rotterdam as airlines gathered to make the case for aviation biofuels commercialisation to a wider biofuels industry audience. In a keynote speech, KLM Managing Director

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Delayed Biofuel Approval Expected By August

by Graham Warwick   (Aviation Week)  Approval of biofuels for use in commercial aircraft is now expected by August, a glitch in fuel testing having pushed back a final vote on the new specification by the aviation fuels subcommittee of

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

New Report Tracks Aviation Biofuels Collaboration

(Air Transport Action Group)  The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has released a new report, Powering the Future of Flight, which tracks progress in some key aviation biofuels projects worldwide and provides policymakers with a few examples of how they can

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Budget Cuts May Target MSU-N Biodiesel Facility

by Kay Rossi    (KXLH.com)  ...Five years ago, Montana State University-Northern received $800,000 in grant funding for infrastructure and staffing for a new biofuel lab at the MSU-N Bio-Energy Center Now the nationally-certified facility performs a variety of functions, from researching

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article
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