Mar

2

If Not GMO How About Mutants?

March 2, 2012 | 2 Comments

A sizable part of the world is still after decades locked up on GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) crops.  The locked up minds have locked out huge food production potential and starved millions.  When the headline out of Iowa State University by Mike Krapfl, “Iowa State, Ames Lab Chemists Aid Study of Mutated Plants That May [...]

Feb

24

Big Oil Invests In Biofuel

February 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

Al Fin led Thursday with a post on CoolPlanet Energy along with GreenCarCongress all seeming to be based from a press release handled at BusinessWire. The points for this post are a look at the investors and the biofuel technology.  Big Oil is very interested with some serious money now loaded into CoolPlanet.  At the [...]

Feb

15

An Elegant Answer to the US Biofuel Challenge

February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments

Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from corn, now well past the E-10 or 10% blend share and looking to get to 15% and much more E-85 (85%) sales plus various ratios in [...]

Jan

31

Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 | 3 Comments

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

Jan

20

Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

Jan

13

Bio Diesel Sets Up to Catch Up With Ethanol

January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Bio diesel compared to ethanol is way behind in displacing petroleum products.  Add in the other middle distillates such as jet fuel and kerosene and the very small percentage looks even smaller.  Ethanol has been used for centuries and has a huge head start, but a new breakthrough at the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s [...]

Jan

6

A Crop to Replace Corn Ethanol Development

January 6, 2012 | 4 Comments

This is one to take seriously.  A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in one of Roosevelt’s terms, Henry A. Wallace who introduced hybrid corn seed and started the green revolution we and billions of other people rely on for food today. Now a [...]

Jan

5

Bamboo May Be the New Renewable Forest Fuel

January 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

In the developed world where a flip of a switch or twist of a knob starts food heating the idea of gathering dung, wood or making charcoal for food preparation is a nearly horrifying thought. But for billions of humans, that procedure is a daily routine. It isn’t possible for people to join in the [...]

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