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North Central Regional Sun Center awards $940,000 in biofuel research grants

In South Dakota, the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center awarded $940,000 to five projects out of more than 50 proposals. The grants are supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation Bioba...

TMO Renewables launches process to produce celluloic ethanol with bacteria

Audeamus reports on an English company, TMO Renewables, which is moving towards commercial production bacteria that ingests organic waste and excretes ethanol. The bacteria, known as TM242, is one of ...

Colorado researchers gain grant for conversion of algae, switchgrass to syngas, fuel

A research team at the University of Colorado was awarded $1 million by the Department of Energy and USDA to develop a  solar-thermal chemical reactor to convert switchgrass and algae to synthetic ga...

Energy Department investing more than $1 million in improved biofuel lifecycle analysis: official

Stephen Chalk of the Department of Energy testified before the Senate yesterday and gave an overview of DOE efforts to develop life cycle analysis as well as advanced biofuels. Chalk said that the DOE...

UK researchers develop TM242 bacteria, say could provide 10 percent of UK fuel needs in ethanol produced from domestic compost, municipal waste

UK researchers announced at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Ireland that they identified and modified a "heat-loving bacteria in a compost heap, from the Geobacillus family, which in t...

Iowa State research team receives $2.37 million for study of combined heat and power, gasification

Researchers at Iowa State University have received a $2.37 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund. The grant is to replace natural gas in ethanol projects with heat and power produced from biomass usi...