Emily Newton is the Editor-in-Chief of Revolutionized Magazine, an online publication that explores innovations in science and technology. Renewable energy sources are slowly becoming more popular and some, like biomass power, could change the energy sector forever. Biomass is one of the main renewable energy sources available to us today, though it tends to get overlooked in favor of …
Read More »University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an affordable and “green” transportation fuel. The advance is reported in this week’s issue of the journal Nature Chemical Biology by Michelle C. Y. Chang, assistant professor of chemistry at UC …
Read More »Algae-to-Oil Pioneer’s Technology Selected from more than 250 Leading Organizations, Universities and National Laboratories Los Angeles, CA June 22, 2010 – OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the Biofuels Digest …
Read More »BIOFUEL ENERGY CORP. (Nasdaq:BIOF – News), an ethanol production company, today announced its fourth quarter and year end 2009 results. Net income attributable to common shareholders was $6.8 million, or $.21 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the net loss attributable to common shareholders was $13.6 million, or $.57 …
Read More »At this years’ Going Green we talked to Bill Roe, the CEO of Coskata about his company’s work in developing bio fuel alternatives. They are making ethanol from a variety of feed stocks including switchgrass, wood chips, agricultural residues (bagasse, corn stover, etc.) as well as waste streams such as old tires and municipal solid waste. Coskata is commercializing a …
Read More »Bio Fuels, using stock such as corn and sugar as the feed for the production of ethanol fuel, have been a big debate over the last year as the public has seen the effects of large scale ethanol production on supplies and pricing in commodity markets. However many of us may not know that behind the scenes there is real …
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