Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'syngas'

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...

"Butanol is going to be fabulous"

"Butanol is going to be fabulous" That quote from Mary Beth Stanek, GM's Director Energy and Environmental Policy & Commercialization may be buried deep inside a longish piece in Green Car Congress today about GM pushing for ethanol with its...

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...

Syngas from wood

If you're interested in using wood products such as shavings and chips to make useful biofuels, check out this woodfuel site. Instead of converting resin to hooch and thence to heat, these fellows recommend heating the wood up to very...