Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
More than 10% of all gasoline sold in the United States in 2009 will be made from ethanol rather than petroleum. Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told gasoline refiners and importers that they must produce more than 10% of all gasoline from ethanol in 2009. This exceeds the ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
DARPA is funding research devoted to the affordable production of a surrogate for petroleum based military jet fuel (JP-8) from agricultural or aquacultural crops that are non-competitive with food material.
The current solicitation expands the scope of the BioFuels program described in BAA06-43 to additionally focus on: (1) processes for ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Gulf Oil recently opened its first e85 fueling station in New England to service commuters with Flex Fuel Vehicles. This station is an important milestone to expand Massachusetts and New England’s fuel resources, providing greater access to affordable and environmentally friendly alternative fuels.
This new station makes it easier for Massachusetts’ ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Biofuels may not be as bad as many of its critics believed.
Speculators were the principal cause for the rise in corn prices during the summer months, according to a new report by Global Insight, a Boston, Mass.-based consulting firm. In other words, biofuels are not to blame.
"The record high prices ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
A wave of solar-energy companies are scrambling to adjust to the lingering credit crisis in capital markets. While investors and analysts are still bullish on the sector’s long term prospects, the next year or two could see a major shake up in the crowded solar energy space.
The looming threat of ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
The 2017 cellulosic ethanol production potential ranges from 1.6 to 7.2 billion gallons. The growth of this capacity through 2017 is shown in the graphic above. The combination of the production subsidy plus capital cost reduction appears to be the most effective option in driving industry growth. The least effective ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
General Motors and the Electric Power Research Institute have partnered on a project to promote the integration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with the electrical grid.
Plug-in hybrids run on battery power for short trips, but include an engine to recharge the batteries for extended trips. For most commutes the plug-in ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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Who needs corn-based ethanol when you've got mutant yeast? Nobody, apparently.
Mark Goebl, a professor of Biochemistry at Indiana University's School of Medicine, has developed a new genetically distinct strain of mutant yeast for ethanol production that would reduce or eliminate the need to use corn to make the alternative fuel.
The ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day, producing oil in the process — 30 times more oil per acre than soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Like ...
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