Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'research'
There's a plan!
The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels. Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night....
South Africa looks to biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps
South Africa is looking at biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps, according to Engineering News from Creamer Media. According to the report: Dr Titus Mathe, The South African National Energy Research Institute's (Saneri's) programme manager, said that, although the country...
Biomass could get tight from 2030
Researchers In Denmark have been looking hard at the amount of biomass that will be available for biofuels after 2030 is going to become tight. This is what they say in a peer-reviewed paper in Environment Science Technology, produced by...
Shell is involved in six new biofuel research ventures
Shell announced on 17 September that it was involved in six new research agreements for biofuels. This builds on a number of piecemeal announcements including an interest in a Hawaiian biofuel from algae venture and an agreement with Codexis. The...
Sao Paulo marshalls its biofuel resources
Over on Temas blog, my friend Keith Ripley has a piece on how the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo is getting all of its resources together to study the future of biofuels. This is big potatoes in a state which...
Need a research grant?
If you need a research grant and you are a bona fide researcher, the South Asian Eastern Regional Centre for Tropical Biology would be interested in hearing from you. Submission details are available by following the link. Submissions must be...
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...
Water corn and alternative fuels
I've been going on about water, quite a bit. I make no apologies for it. If I could just quote from Dr Strangeglove (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb) Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting...
Berkeley's biofuels research gets $10m extra
University of California, Berkeley, has won a further $10m from the Federal government to research biofuels, according to Deepti Arora in the Daily Californian, which says: A group headed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received an extra $10 million...
China has a lot of biomass
China has a lot of biomass, it is estimated that the total amount of biomass resource is up to 5.2x108 tons of oil equivalent (TOE), according to a paper published on research and development in biomass energy in China. The...
Cornell finds a new enzyme for ethanol production
In a breakthrough that could make the production of cellulosic ethanol less expensive, Cornell researchers have discovered a class of plant enzymes that potentially could allow plant materials used to make ethanol to be broken down more efficiently than is...
Small scale US biorefineres in $200m boost
Over at The Energy blog they report that: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on May 1 announced that it will provide up to $200 million, over five years (FY'07-'11) to support the development of small-scale cellulosic biorefineries. This funding ...
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