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• Now or Never: Why Recent Fossil Fuel Disasters Should Be a Wake-up Call
  The full cost of fossil fuels has recently become glaringly apparent. The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico claimed 11 lives and has already taken a huge toll on the economy and ecology of that region. In early April the Massey Energy coal mine explosion killed 29 miners and was the worst US […]
• The Watermelon: A Fruitful Discovery in Renewable Energy
  With the dwindling supply of fossil fuels and a rapidly disappearing ozone layer, the search for new energy sources is getting kicked into high gear. And while the advent of renewable energy has sparked discoveries in electric, wind, and solar power, more and more researchers are turning to biofuels as the answer to the world’s […]
• San Francisco Premieres Solar Powered Wi-Fi Bus Stops
  San Fransisco, California is making a splash in the civil planning industry. At the end of May, 2009, Mayor Gavin Newsom cut the ribbon on the first of many Solar Powered Wi-Fi bus stops that will be lining the streets of San Francisco in the coming 5 years. These sleek, curvaceous and modern bus terminals […]
• Alternative Fuels Are Found at Your Favorite Restaurant
  Early Experimentation with Alternative Fuels The first known use of vegetable oil as fuel was a demonstration of a diesel engine built by the Otto Company and designed to burn mineral oil. They tested it to run on pure peanut oil at the 1900 World’s Fair and it worked. Another example of vegetable oil being used as […]
• Conservation vs. Convenience: People are Creatures of Habit.
  The luxuries and necessities that we have grown so accustomed to are the reason why the switch from oil to a renewable source of energy will not happen soon enough for us to shed our dependence on a finite resource. People talk and say that we need to cut back, we are destroying our world, but many are not doing anything about it. […]

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• What’s Up in Brazilian Biofuels? The 10-Minute Guide
  The top 20 trends and stories from biofuels’ most advanced commercial market, and its most intriguing focal point for expansion. It was just around the end of 2009′s Summer of Algae, when attention in advanced biofuels shifted decisively to Brazil, and it seemed that the best place to carry on an industry dialogue was the […]
• CleanStar launches first cooking fuel facility in Mozambique; alternative to charcoal cooking, heath risks, at hand in Africa
  In Mozambique, the first sustainable cooking fuel facility was inaugurated by Federal Minister of Agriculture José Pacheco. The CleanStar project will produce ethanol-based cooking fuel for sale with the company’s cookstoves, an affordable new form of cooking that is cleaner, faster and safer than using charcoal. The plant in Dondo, in Mozambique’s Sofala Pr […]
• US ethanol production on the rise
  In Washington, the Energy Information Administration said that US ethanol production rose to 904,000 barrels per day, or 37.97 million gallons per day, up from 897,000 bpd last week; the rolling four-week average moved up to 890,000 bpd, equivalent to 13.64 billion gallons per year. Ethanol producers also generated 101,744 tons of livestock feed and […]
• Explosion, fire at Iowa biodiesel plant; no injuries reported
  In Iowa, an explosion occurred at the the Soy Energy biodiesel plant in Mason City. Damage was reported from the fire that ensued but no injuries were reported. The plant, which employs a staff of 40l, will be closed pending an investigation into the blast. Plant president Jeff Oestmann told the Des Moines Register, ““biodiesel […]
• Colombia touts its sugarcane, palm resources for biofuels projects
  In Colombia, the Ministry of Mines and Energy stated that biodiesel production from its sugarcane and palm resources can reduce GHG emissions by 83 and 74 percent. Biodiesel Magazine is reporting that Colombia is banking on hopes that a combination of attractive carbon savings and the local growing conditions will spark a biofuels boom in […]
• JOil, Temasek pioneer high oleic acid jatropha seeds
  In Singapore, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and JOil have successfully developed genetically modified jatropha plants with high oleic acid content in seeds. JOil is expected to further develop commercial varieties with this trait for commercialization. “Oleic acid is the most desirable oil component for the purpose of biofuel, it gives the best balance be […]
• Indian ministry puts jatropha planting program on hold
  In India, the Union Rural Development Ministry Jairam Ramesh has put the Jathropa plantation program on hold. The Energy Research Institute (Teri)  pointed out in a 2010 study that the plantation can threat the food production in the lands. The proposed program was to plant up to 300,000 hectares for biodiesel production, but the minister […]
• Maine researchers chase three paths towards wood-based, drop-in biofuels
  In Maine, the Farm Press is reporting that three pathways for wood-based aviation biofuels are being pursued at the University of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute. The focus is drop-in biofuels, and there is a video available of the researchers work.     […]
• Can plan based biofuels overcome sustainability concerns and enter US market?
  In Washington, the Obama Administration will tussle shortly over the future of palm oil-based biofuels in the US.  At issue: whether both direct and indirect land use change that is the result of palm’s expansion in Indonesia, should be enough to ban the otherwise climate-friendly feedstock from the US. Palm producers are on notice to […]
• “Biofuels improve health, increase incomes and food production, and protect forests.”
  Today on Twitter. johanmelchior: In Mozambique, biofuels improve health, increase incomes and food production, and protect forests gorillaspeak: Biofuels = disaster. Obama’s biggest decision of the year may be palm oil: envirolauren: Did you know that MA law requires 3% (5% by 2013) of home heating oil and diesel to be comprised of biofuel? ACOREUSCP: […]

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