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Biofuels News

Biofuels

 
Biofuels are fuels produced from renewable organic material. Biofuel has the potential to reduce some undesirable aspects of fossil fuel production and use, including conventional and greenhouse gas pollutant emissions, exhaustible resource depletion and dependence on unstable foreign suppliers. Demand for biofuels could also increase farm income.
 
Unfortunately, biofuels have drawbacks as well, including land and water resource requirements, air and ground water pollution, and increased food costs, but even considering these negatives, they are generally favored by environmentalists. (Source: EPA, Photo: Flickr)

Articles about Biofuels

  • Converting landfills to nature preserves doesn't erase their negative impact

    Wed, May 15 2013 at 1:58 PM

    There is a danger in fluffy-happy stories about landfill turn-arounds because they make us forget about the bigger problem: Waste.

  • How biofuels could help power jet engines

    Tue, Apr 23 2013 at 12:08 PM

    Researchers have altered E. coli to make the fuel molecules normally found in diesel or jet fuel.

  • Algae-powered apartment complex blooms in Hamburg

    Thu, Apr 11 2013 at 2:32 PM

    BIQ House, a 15-unit net-zero energy apartment complex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell, is completed in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the International Building Exhibition.

  • New microbe makes fuel from CO2 in the air

    Wed, Mar 27 2013 at 1:36 PM

    Scientists at the University of Georgia have created a microbe that converts carbon dioxide into biofuel, a discovery that might boost the battle against climate change.

  • From fat to fuel: Genetically modified bacteria could convert waste into energy

    Mon, Mar 25 2013 at 5:17 PM

    Modified E. coli would convert plant waste into fatty acids, and then into fuel.

  • Iron-oxidizing bacteria fooled into 'eating' electrons instead

    Wed, Jan 30 2013 at 11:13 AM

    The new advance could eventually be used to turn electricity into fuel.

  • Solved: The mystery of the biofuel-filled train that kept crossing the border

    Fri, Dec 28 2012 at 10:32 AM

    A Canadian company and a partner are the latest to defraud an EPA system designed to bring more renewable fuels into the market.

  • ASU receives $15 million for algae alternative fuel research

    Wed, Oct 10 2012 at 2:07 PM

    The $15 million U.S. Department of Energy grant was awarded to the Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership at Arizona State University.

  • World's first biofuel jet flight to take off in Canada

    Thu, Sep 20 2012 at 3:49 PM

    An NRC Falcon 20 twin engine jet will be used to test the new jet fuel made from 100 percent oilseed, for engine performance and emissions.

  • Japan toilet maker unveils 'poop-powered' motorbike

    Thu, Aug 30 2012 at 5:55 AM

    Billed as the world's first waste-powered vehicle, it can travel as far as 180 miles on a tank filled with animal waste.

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