Tag Archives: biofuel

With rising oil costs and environmental concerns has come increased pressure on the motor industry to develop an alternative and greener fuel to power the world’s vehicles. But would ethanol be a viable alternative to petrol (gas)? Ethanol is largely seen as an environmentally friendly alternative to petrol. It is made from crops such as sugarcane in Brazil and soyabean …

Barack Obama’s Energy Policy – Campaign 2008 * Energy ANWR: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in northern Alaska that contains substantial supplies of oil and gas. Conservatives favor drilling ANWR to extract the oil, while liberals favor maintaining its protected status. * Deregulation Crisis: California suffered ‘rolling blackouts’ in 2001 due to insufficient energy supplies. California …

Hillary on video regarding Energy In this video Hillary answers questions about her Energy policy at an event in Iowa. Campaign Commercial – Hillary talks about Energy

Phytoplankton could turn down the heat on the morality debate over using food crops to produce energy. While several technological stumbling blocks to producing algal biodiesel on a commercial scale remain, the obvious benefits over other renewable fuels keep investors and researchers interested. What’s more, the obstacles are well within the reach of innovators, especially when compared to the problems …

At the Going Green 2007 conference last week a panel sat down to discuss biofuels and whether the steamroller was actually moving on thius energy front. The consensus from the panel of CEO was that there is indeed a biofuels revolution going on and that big things are going to happen in the near term for biofuels.

At the Going Green 2007 conference in Davis CA the world of CEO’s and VC’s are meshing in a mashup of networking, demos, and large scale lovefest of Green Technology. I think this is a terrific thing frankly. I came to the event to see if the buzz was real. Is the world ready for real green tech development on …

In Japan meals are consumed with chopsticks everyday. Some with fancy ones and many with disposable wooden chopsticks. Now there are people in Japan who want to turn those throw away chopsticks into the next biofuel option. We all know there is heated debate about ethanol going on right now. Making ethanol out of corn and other mass produced crops …

There is a good article in Rolling Stone about [tag]ethanol[/tag]. They examine the whole ethanol policy and agribusiness connections with our politicians. I think it is a good read. The great danger of confronting peak oil and [tag]global warming[/tag] isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after …

A new process of creating biofuels could lead to the US becoming an exporter of oil, instead of an importer, according to Purdue University Scientists, in online report released on March 14, 2007.The new process is called H2CAR for “hybrid hydrogen-carbon process.””We could use H2CAR to provide a sustainable fuel supply to meet the needs of the entire U.S. transportation …

The call has gone out from President Bush to kick our oil habit. For many people, the mention of biomass as a fuel source was a new concept. Little did they realize they have already been putting it into their cars. Nope, that isnt your dads gas anymore. There are Plants in My Gasoline? In his State of the Union …

There was a buzz in the air as the state and university folks were clearly slathering over the prospect of such a large grant to fund research and BP was clearly trying to buy some valuable exposure that would make big oil look like sound corporate citizens interested in looking into and developing alternative fuels.

HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Citing the urgent need to cut energy costs, move toward energy independence and stimulate the economy, Governor Rendell today released his Energy Independence Strategy. The plan will push Pennsylvania into the top tier of states taking steps to cut consumer energy costs, and significantly expand the alternative fuel, clean energy and conservation sectors. ‘This …

BP today announced it has selected the University of California Berkeley and its partners the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to join in a $500 million research program that will explore how bioscience can be used to increase energy production and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.

The recent State of the Union address by Pres. Bush has sparked much debate about the production and use of ethanol in the US to help in the effort to reduce our foreign oil importation. It would seem thought that many analysts think there is no way we can produce the amounts of biofuel that the President calls for in his speech.

Omaha, Neb. (October 10, 2006) – Consumers can enjoy the ride now, but tumbling gas prices must not slow the movement to a domestic renewable energy policy. In July, the Commerce Department reported that America’s foreign oil bill climbed nearly five percent, to a record total of nearly one billion dollars a day. “Ethanol is playing a key role in …