Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'University'
Salt loving plants may help biofuels production
Researchers at the University of Arizona say that salt loving plants might hold the key to 63bn gallons ethanol from non-crop land, according to Biofuels Digest, which quoted from Wired. If this is true then it really is interesting. With...
Fungus joins biofuel armoury
There's some excitement about a newly discovered fungus that makes chemicals similar to biofuels from cellulose. (Thanks David). It looks legit, because a couple of my colleagues sent me this link (thanks Clay and Doris). This isn't the first time...
Wal-Mart supports cellulosic research
Wal-Mart has made a donation to Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University to help fund biomass to ethanol research, according to Domestic fuel. This should help the Institute gain funding from the Department of Energy. That's interesting, about 10%...
Miscanthus research in Iowa
The Iowa State University is looking hard at Miscanthus as a potential biofuel feedstock, says the Des Moines Register. Miscanthus, on the other hand, holds the potential to make up to 2times as much ethanol per ton as corn. A...
Catalyst break through for biofuels
The Ames Laboratory (at the US Department of Energy) and Iowa State University recently published a press release claiming that it should be possible to produce ethanol from all types of carbon-based biomass. This is reported on Senter Novem. The...
DuPont in cellulose ethanol trial in Tennessee
DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE) and the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Foundation, through its Genera Energy LLC, have announced a partnership to construct an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art research and development facility for cellulosic ethanol in Vonore. There's more...
A short video about algae that grow in brackish water and can produce biofuel feedstock
A short video about algae that grow in brackish water and will only take around 5000 square kilometres. The researchers at the Unviersity of Texas at Austin estimate that it would take 820,313 square miles of corn or 234 000...
Self-digesting sweet potatos
North Carolina State Unviersity is developing a self digesting sweet potato, according to Biopact. I guess timing the harvest right is going to be critical if that technology ever takes off....
Napier University opens biofuel research centre
Edinburgh's Napier University is opening a biofuel research centre, which the University says is the first of its kind in the UK. It is being headed by Dr Martin Tangney...
What to do with leftovers
With Thanksgiving just behind us in the US and Chrismass on the horizon, now could be a good time to think about what to do with the excess food we're going to try to consume in the richer parts of...
Warwick University looks at straw as a biofuel source
Warwick University looks at how we could use straw as feedstock for biofuels. They are taking an ethical stance......
Ethanol is not really the answer, from corn at least
Tom Philpott has written a good Report over on Grist, connecting the recent study on biofuels published by the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry with a new one from the University of Minnesota. The killer quote from the University of...
Scientists Aim To Sequence And Catalog Conifer Genes For Future Biofuels Research
Researchers in the US have decided it is high time that they understood what makes up the nation's indigenous but largely undomesticated coniferous forests, according to ScienceDaily. Jeffrey Dean, professor of forest biotechnology in the University of Georgia Warnell School...
Conoco-Phillips funds coal to ethanol technology
Conoco-Phillips is helping fund University research into converting coal into ethanol, according to two posts conveniently pulled together on Doug Williams' blog No 1203: Biofuels, ethanol, biodiesel, clean energy. Green car Congress talks about DOE and Conoco-Phillips Funding Research on...
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