A researcher called on the Australian and South Australian governments to get behind biofuels research and development. The researcher noted that Australia’s goal of 1% conversion to biofuels lags far behind the EU’s 5.75 percent mandate by 2010. Meat and Livestock Australia has put $1 million into research for converting tallow into biodiesel and the South Australian government has $5 million to support a national research facility for algae biodiesel production.
Australia recently hosted the APEC economic meetings in Sydney where Prime Minister John Howard pushed hard for a strong collective statement on policy to deal with impending climate change.
A Hungarian researcher blamed biofuels for contributing to Hungary's severe drought this year. The researcher said that farmers that sold stalks and straw instead of leaving them in their fields, as s...
A Purdue researcher said that the US will produce ethanol at 13 billion gallons a year in 2008, but that the US distribution system could only handle 12 billion gallons, which will cause a fall in pri...
In Australia, a researcher at CSIRO, the national science agency, has warned Australian state governments against imposing ethanol mandates. The warning followed the imposition of an E2 mandate by New...
An independent British researcher has proposed "seeding" selected areas of the world's oceans with iron filings, to promote algae growth that would absorb carbon dioxide and be used to produce biodie...
In Malaysia, the Indonesian and Malaysian governments announced that they would join forces to help prop up the price of crude palm oil. CPO has fallen from a high of more than $1000 earlier this year...
In Australia, Ethtec will commence production on December 17 at its pilot cellulosic ethanol plant near Maclean in northern New South Wales. The company's process uses hydrolysis to convert cellulose ...
