In the UK, researchers at Imperial College London say that the Christmas wrapping paper and Christmas cards used in the country could provide enough biomass to produce sufficient biofuel for driving a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times. Between the 1.5 billion cards and the 83 square kilometers of wrapping […]
In Germany, Ecofys Germany GmbH compiled a report on the market development for biodiesel in the German and international biodiesel markets. The report not only examines the production and sales development in the most important countries of the European Union, and the also takes the USA, Argentina, Malaysia and Indonesia aamong other countries. The trade […]
In Finland, Aalto University researchers have discovered a method for manufacturing fuel cells that require 60 per cent less of costly catalysts than current methods. By using the Aalto University researchers’ ALD method, the anode cover can be much thinner and more even than before, lowering costs and increasing quality. Additionally, by using alcohol fuels […]
In Finland, researchers at Aalto University have discovered a method to produce butanol from wood biomass using microbes. The university says that when wood biomass is boiled in a mixture of water, alcohol and sulphur dioxide, all parts of the wood – cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin – are separated into clean fractions. The cellulose can […]
In Germany, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is the lead on a European-funded project called BIOBOOST (‘Biomass-based energy intermediates boosting biofuel production’) that will launch in early 2012 develop novel energy carriers, generating energy-rich intermediate products from biogenous residues, assess environmental compatibility and optimize logistics chains. The project received $6.6 million in EU funding.
In Georgia, the University of Georgia has teamed with the University of Puerto Rico to develop a new R&D center that will focus on algae-based biofuels thanks to a $4 million grant from the Dept. of Defense. In Athens, where UGA operates a state-of-the-art algae research facility, researchers will focus their efforts on production of […]
In Georgia, the University of Georgia has teamed with the University of Puerto Rico to develop a new R&D center that will focus on algae-based biofuels thanks to a $4 million grant from the Dept. of Defense. In Athens, where UGA operates a state-of-the-art algae research facility, researchers will focus their efforts on production of […]
In Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon’s Wolf Frommer and his team have identified how the sucrose produced in the leaves via photosynthesis is delivered to the transporters that move it into the phloem. In this new research they have identified the missing piece of the molecular pump system – a protein that moves the sucrose to the […]
In Pennsylvania, Penn State reports that researchers have corrected a mistake from a 1967 study by showing that cyanobacteria do in fact have the genes for an alternate means of completing the critical tricarboxilic acid cycle. The researchers used tools that were lacking in 1967 to show that the two enzymes required to complete the […]
In Washington state, partially in thanks to the $80 million, five year USDA grant to the University of Washington and Washington State University for biofuels research, a drop-in fuel pilot plant at WSU-Tri Cities is under development that is intended to be feedstock agnostic. The facility could be commercial scale in five years.
