Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'carbon'
California looks at emissions from crop to tail pipe and legislates
California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol, according to a report on Planet Ark. The new legislation examines the carbon impact from seed to tailpipe, which seems sensible. ...
Not farming is better for carbon emissions than corn-ethanol
Tree Hugger has one of those articles which show that doing nothing produces fewer carbon emissions than growing corn for ethanol. Well Duh.Let's turn this on its head. If we stopped using oil-powered vehicles then we would not need to use...
The corn-ethanol carbon balance argument again
There is an interesting video on Climate Central about the amount of carbon dioxide produced when ethanol is made from corn grown in the mid-West of the US. Hard to tell who is right in this debate (if any one...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
Life on Myanmar's biofuels plantation
Tidied upLife on a Myanmar biofuels plantation is explored and found to be pretty rosy in this article from Singapore's Straights Times. Well it would be, its the Straights Times and its a Singaporean investment. Didn't look around at any...
Saving forest is beyond the power of Indonesia's government
Saving forest is beyond the power of Indonesia's government, according to a report in the Jakarta Post. Here's the extract Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono on Tuesday defended Indonesia's drive to expand oil palm plantations, despite a demand by environmentalists for...
UK algae biofuels challenge
The UK's Carbon Trust has launched the Algae Biofuel Challenge to try and flush some good ideas for biofuels from algae off the top of the pond and closer to commercialisation. Worth applying. ...
Ensus new website outlines paradox at heart of biofuel from food processes
Ensus new website, for me outlines the paradox at the heart of the biofuel from food processes. If you take food out of the food chain then there's less to eat. It really is that simple even if you're using...
UK grants for clean vehicles
The UK has £100m (around $175m-200m) in grants for vehicles powered by biofuel and other cleantechnologies. According to Cleantech The U.K. Regional Development Agency One NorthEast is taking applications for its recently-launched £100 million ($173 million USD) Low Carbon Vehicle...
US Biofuel farmers could benefit twice from cap and trade
I think that farmers in the US might be able to benefit twice from some carbon cap-and-trade proposals, according to this piece from the Des Moines Register. First they'd have to move to no-till planting and secondly they'd have to...
Corrected: Ineos to use municpal waste and algae to make ethanol
Corrected:This article originally appeared with the headline Ineos goes down the Fischer Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste. The process will use algae to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol not a chemical catalyst. This has been corrected...
Ethanol without the microbes
Interesting comment from David Benson, a bit off topic, but bang on the money about alternative technologies. This has a lot of things I like, especially the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis plant which uses hydrogen from electrolysed water, (electricity generated by wind)...
US Carbon tax
The US looks set to tax imports on the basis of the amount of carbon that they contain, according to Paul Hodges in Chemicals and the Economy. Paul is pretty focused on chemicals, but clearly coal would be pretty heavily...
A really bad idea
I've just come across a pretty bad idea on a site which claims to be about popular science... popular hogwash if the rest of it is up to this standard. As reported idea revolves around converting carbon dioxide from smokestacks...
The carbon footprint of biofuels and petrofuels
SRIC’s Carbon Footprint of Biofuels & Petrofuels report suggests that... land use is so critical [to the environmental impact of biofuels] that – at least from a global warming viewpoint – northern European farmers should plant trees and burn petrodiesel...
Biofuels emit more carbon than fossil fuels
Increasing production of biofuels to combat climate change will release between two and nine times more carbon gases over the next 30 years than fossil fuels, according to the first comprehensive analysis of emissions from biofuels in today's Guardian Unlimited....
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel, three inventors from North Wales have developed a box that can capture the exhaust gases of cars so they can be used to grow algae. There are a number of technical...
Waste carbon monoxide to ethanol
LanzaTech claims to have a technology to convert carbon monoxide in industrial waste gases to ethanol. Looks promising, if the concentration of carbon monoxide is high enough. The trouble is carbon monoxide is pretty toxic so flue gas concentrations will...
BioAmber may help make ethanol production greener
BioAmber has a process that may may help make ethanol production greener at a new plant that will take carbon dioxide from ethanol production and make a bio substitute for oil in petrochemicals. BioAmber, is a joint venture between Diversified Natural Products (DNP),...
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