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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

  • U.S. gives $136 million for advanced biofuels research

    Wed, Sep 28 2011 at 12:48 PM

    Most of the money will go to developing biofuel alternatives for jets.

  • New biofuel touted as diesel replacement

    Tue, Sep 27 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Researchers engineered strains of E. coli with yeast to produce a promising alternative to Number 2 diesel.

  • British adventurer returns from global biofuel bus trip

    Fri, Sep 09 2011 at 1:39 PM

    Jail time, breakdowns and romance marked Andy Pag's journey around the world in a 22-year-old bus without the use of any fossil fuels.

  • Panda poop may solve biofuel woes

    Mon, Aug 29 2011 at 2:09 PM

    Cellulose-digesting bacteria found in panda feces could break down woody, inedible plants into biofuels.

  • Could alligator fat become a source for biodiesel?

    Sun, Aug 21 2011 at 12:20 AM

    Lipids derived from gator fat meet nearly all the official standards for high-quality biodiesel.

  • Biomass is key to low-carbon energy strategy, but drives food prices higher

    Thu, Aug 18 2011 at 11:40 AM

    Wood-based biofuels would use carbon capture and storage technologies to achieve negative carbon emissions, study finds.

  • Obama administration to stimulate biofuel industry

    Tue, Aug 16 2011 at 2:51 PM

    New projects include using wood chips and inedible plant products to create biofuels.

  • Want to get Big Government off your back? Embrace clean energy

    Mon, Aug 15 2011 at 10:38 AM

    Renewable energy is a powerful force for the decentralization of Big Energy (and Big Government). It's odd that it isn't more popular in supposedly 'radical' anti-government circles.

  • Car that runs on wine and cheese showcased at eco-rally

    Mon, Aug 08 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Wine, cheese, chocolate and human sewage are just a few of the eccentric alternative fuels highlighted.

  • U.S. Air Force: We want to use biofuels

    Tue, Jul 19 2011 at 4:46 PM

    The cost of biofuels remains prohibitively high, so the Air Force has partnered with commercial airlines in trying to open up the biofuel market.

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