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• Corn stover research gets started

  Just how much corn stover can you remove from fields without destroying the soil structure or significantly reducing the amount of organic material in the soil? With luck this collaboration by Monsanto, John Deere and ADM will answer that question and... Posted Aug 27 2008, 04:11 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, biofuel, Science, ADM, cellulosic, Deere, soil, Monsanto, humus, stover, John

• Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste

  Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste . The process looks interesting and I've asked them some questions. How do you separate chlorinated and non chlorinated plastics? Have you considered converting some of the plastics... Posted Aug 21 2008, 11:08 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: biofuel, UK, biofuels, technology, waste, Resources, domestic, Reclaim

• 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

• Mixed messages as India drops state funding for biodiesel

  According to a report in India's Economic Times, on 4 August, the Indian Government has pulled out of a nationwide biodiesel plan , because ministers were worried that large corporations would buy large areas of the country for biofuel production... Posted Aug 19 2008, 11:00 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: Policy, biofuel, Biodiesel, India

• More green needed for biochems

  Thanks to Paul from Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO ) for alerting me on this hot off the press market study on industrial biotechnology by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). According to the ITC, research and development within the... Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:22 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: US, biofuel, Trade, Investments, studies and reports, R&D, Government, investment, biobased chemicals

• Louisana signs advanced biofuels law into being

  Lousiana has signed the HB1270 Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative into law. It features the use of hydrous and anhydrous ethanol as a fuel blend stock that will be derived from plants grown in Lousiana (but not corn) and capable of producing... Posted Jul 15 2008, 04:41 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, biofuel, Corn, biofuels, crop, sorghum, Lousiana, anhydrous, hydrouos

• 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 rivals the US in the volume of ethanol it produces... Posted Jul 14 2008, 03:57 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, Biodiesel, Brazil, research, Sao, Paulo

• Gallagher: the direction of biofuel policy in the UK

  Gallagher has some thoughts on the direction of biofuel policy in the UK . I've left this to the last because, although it is the most interesting and proposes significant divergency from the EU position, I am not certain that the UK can move that... Posted Jul 11 2008, 10:44 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: Policy, biofuel, UK, biofuels, Gallagher

• India's state-subsidised biofuel project close to launch

  India's state-subsidised biofuel project close to launch, according to the Indian Financial Express Newspaper on Monday. One of the high points will be a trial plantation of 4m acres of Jatropha, according to the report. The other is that the Indian... Posted Jul 09 2008, 01:04 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: Policy, biofuel, biofuels, India, Jatropha

• Sustainable biofuels are possible says Gallagher report

  The Ed Gallagher, chair of the UK's Renewable Fuels Agency says that sustainable biofuels are possible but: We cannot afford to abandon biofuels as part of a low carbon transport future. Equally, we cannot continue producing biofuels which are ultimately... Posted Jul 08 2008, 02:53 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: Policy, biofuel, UK, fuel, renewable, agency, revew, Gallagher

• Switching to switchgrass isn't easy

  Switching to switchgrass isn't going to be easy, according to this useful piece from redorbit. Worth reading. Read More... Posted Jul 02 2008, 11:24 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, biofuel, Agriculture, biofuels, technology, Science, power, switchgrass, cellulosic, plants, indianna, Panicum, gatum

• Gulf of Mexico deadzone all bad for biofuels?

  Interesting piece over on Maribo about the way that flooding in the Midwestern US could lead to a big increase in the size of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico . This is caused each year when excess fertiliser is washed out of farmland along the Mississippi... Posted Jun 30 2008, 12:54 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, biofuel, Agriculture, biofuels, mexico, nitrogen, algae, flood, fertilzer, Gulf, dead, zone

• Cellulosic biofuel could lower US carbon emissions by 370 megatons by 2030

  "Lower carbon fuels, such as celluosic biofuels, could abate between 100 and 370 megatons of emissions, though this potential is highly dependent on innovation rates and near-term commercialisation of these technologies" With the kicker about... Posted Jun 27 2008, 04:29 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, biofuel, fuel, automotive, report, McKinsey

• RFA comes out against Texas' plan for a biofuels waiver

  The US Renewable Fuel Association has come out strongly against Texas' request for a standstill in the amount of biofuel it consumes . The Association's point of view is pretty much that this is a federal mandate and so should be followed because... Posted Jun 25 2008, 01:15 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, biofuel, fuel, Texas, renewable, Assocation

• Biofuels Cities newsletter

  You should check out the latest edition of the EU's Biofuels Cities newsletter . Read More... Posted Jun 23 2008, 01:23 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, EU, newsletter, cities