Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'science'
Changing land management could shrink carbon payback time
Changing land management could shrink carbon payback time when farmers convert grassland to biofuel production, say researchers in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology.If this is right, and its been peer reviewed, I guess, then it could make biofuels...
ICIS bioresources summit
ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers...
US Government offers small grants to biofuel firms
The US government started asking for grant applications as part of its Clean Cities programme. This includes biofuel from biomass. Also the US department of Agriculture is offering grants to help turn forest waste into energy. Worth checking out. ...
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...
Corn estimates down in the US
The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the...
Enterprise-rent-a-car appoints Sayre as academic biofuel director
Enterprise-rent-a-car appoints Dr Richard Sayre as academic biofuel director at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The position was created by the family which owns Enterprise (and also Alamo and National Car rental brands) with a...
Just how much forest waste is there?
Thinking about my response to the earlier post in Huffington post about using food crops to make biofuels, I started looking at the amount of fuel that could be generated from existing forest materials such as brush wood. There's a...
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 economics of biofuels and more
The economics of biofuels and more is going to be covered in a nascent blog from Gerry McKiernan Science and Technology Librarian at Iowa State University Library, Ames. Called The Bioeconomy Blog, I'll watch it with interest....
Another use for ethanol
While I was at the NPRA convention in San Antonio, Texas over the past couple of days, I interviewed Jose Carlos Grubisich president, Braskem, he's examining a technology that will convert ethanol into polyethylene, which is used in a...
Chipping into success how pulp mills could become biorefineries.
There's a useful piece by my friend, Clay Boswell, in this week's issue of ICIS Chemical Business about the way that paper mills could be chipping into success by becoming, in essence, biorefineries in the future with only modest modifications....
Microbiopower
Scientists in Japan have developed the biofuel equivalent of a blindfolded donkey turning grindstones. By harnessing the power of microbes to turn a micro turbine. Harnessing the microbe, just how big can this get?...
Can this be right
According to a post on Hugg (got to love the concept, if you like something you give it a Hugg) chaps in the Netherlands (Robin Zwart and colleagues in in the current (September/October) issue of the bimonthly ACS journal Energy...
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