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• Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels

  Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels according to Physorg.com . There are researchers in the mid west growing tropical maize, it grows to about 14 feet (about 4m) and because it does not produce ears concentrates sugar in its stem. I... Posted Aug 26 2008, 11:05 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, ethanol, Corn, technology, maize, Bioethanol, SUSA

• Biofuel Cities Europe has its own forums now

  Biofuel-cities Europe has its own forums now. Naturally they are biased towards the European side of the Atlantic, but if their forums are as useful as their email newsletters then they should be worth a look. You have to register, but that's free... Posted Aug 19 2008, 12:28 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, Europe, Admin, cities, Bioethanol, forum

• BP investst in Verenium

  There's a Wall Street Journal article about BP investing $90 m in Verenium a US cellulosic ethanol technology company. Both firms hope to start a jointly making biofuel in a few years. The WSJ says this is BP's first venture into cellulosic biofuel... Posted Aug 18 2008, 12:29 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: US, ethanol, BP, cellulose, Bioethanol, Verenium, investmetn, 90m

• Ethanol is great, (but not to popular technology)

  Ethanol is great if you're standing for election in the US this year, says Popular Technology and then starts a balanced video about that . The nugget in the middle of this video is from the University of Minnesota: If the US converted all of its... Posted Aug 12 2008, 10:09 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Corn, politics, video, Bioethanol, Election 2008

• EPA to rule on Texas' exit from biofuel mandate on 24 July

  A piece on B loombergg today goes into some detail behind Texas' Governors' plan to try and get out of the national requirement to make 9bn gallons of ethanol . The story says that there will have to be a decision by Friday. You may remember,... Posted Jul 22 2008, 04:30 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, biofuels, Texas, EPA, Bioethanol

• Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste

  Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release from the company, reported on ICIS news and in newspapers like the Times today . I like this technology, as you'll know by now and I think that... Posted Jul 21 2008, 01:26 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, UK, technology, carbon, gas, waste, Ineos, hydrogen, Bioethanol, dioxide, Ljungdahlii, municipal, Clostridium

• 1000 entries and what have we learned?

  Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented on what I've written and offered suggestions... Posted Jul 16 2008, 12:50 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, wheat, Corn, biofuels, generation, Biodiesel, farming, Food, Jatropha, Oil, lobby, vehicles, automotive, farm, efficiency, Bioethanol, farmer, algae, sorghum, Gallagher, second, CAFE, subsidy, Blog roundup, Pongamia

• Biofuels push 260m people in to hunger, ActionAid

  The charity Action Aid estimates that 260m people have been driven into fuel poverty by biofuels in a story reported in today's Guardian Unlimited. Dr Claire Melamed, ActionAid's head of trade policy says. "The world needs to start again... Posted Jul 03 2008, 11:00 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, biofuels, Guardian, World, Bioethanol, Aid, Action, Hunger

• Kudzu its catching on

  I reported that Kudzu could be a good biofuel source for ethano l. Looks like the Huffington post agrees. Kudzu is the latest new craze, according to Huffington . Like all crazes I'll give it a couple of months. Now what about water hyacinth as a... Posted Jun 27 2008, 03:38 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Water, Huffington, cellulosic, Bioethanol, Kudzu, hyacinth

• Biofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer

  There's been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman . Two secretaries of state Samuel W. Bodman (energy) and Edward T. Schafer (agriculture... Posted Jun 13 2008, 12:16 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, Policy, wheat, Corn, biofuels, politics, Oil, Plausability, energy, natural, and, soy, soybean, Bioethanol, Bingaman, Committee, seed, crop, Bodman, soya, on, Resources", Schafer

• Cellulosic ethanol from bagasse

  Here's one way to access the sugars in cellulose, which is being trialled by Verenium in its plant in Jennings, Louisiana . There is an outline of the Verenium 's cellulosic ethanol process on TechnologyReview The process begins when the cane... Posted May 30 2008, 12:17 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, technology, cellulosic, Bioethanol, Guttenberg, Review, Verenium

• Surely taking corn out of the market will raise the price

  I've been in conversation with David Benson, about the role of biofuels in the current round of food price rises across the world. We've been chatting in the comments a couple of posts back . I don't think that we are too far apart in our... Posted May 29 2008, 04:17 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Corn, FAO, balance, Bioethanol, market

• Why fuel efficiency might not help reduce gasoline consumption

  I've been happily espousing the cause of greater fuel efficiency in this blog over the past few months as a way of reducing fuel consumption . I may have been wrong. I've just discovered the Jevons paradox . To cut a long story short: making things... Posted May 23 2008, 11:23 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, biofuels, efficiency, paradox, Jevons, Bioethanol