]> http://www.greenedia.com/popular/articles/biofuels Biofuels - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78664?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 By Vinod KhoslaWhen it comes to biofuels we have choices. We can do it poorly, using short-run approaches with no potential to scale, poor trajectory, and adverse environmental impact. Or we can do it right, with sustainable, long-term solutions... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:42:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78664?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78754?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 By Ryan AventYou can scarcely pick up a paper or turn on the television these days without hearing the word recession. Leading economic indicators have wiggled in different directions over the past few months, but the general trend appears to be nega... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:03:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78754?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78568?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 I have a new article in Salon, The car of the future is here, about plug-in hybrids. The two central points of the article are:Plug-in hybrids (and electric cars) are an essential climate strategy, enabling renewable power (even intermittent s... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:36:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78568?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78510?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 The European Union's Energy Chief today rejected the views on biofuels presented by a group of British MPs, calling them shortsighted and incorrect on several key points. The Commission says it will stick to the bloc's plans to boost the use of biofu... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:37:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78510?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78467?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Ethanol production in Brazil is not causing deforestation in the Amazon region, says Peter Zuurbier, Associate Professor and Director the Latin America Office of Wageningen University, the world's leading center of expertise on tropical agriculture. ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:57:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78467?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78468?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 In a major advance in alternative fuel technology, researchers report the development of a sponge-like material with the highest methane storage capacity ever measured. It can hold almost one-third more methane than the U.S. Department of Energy's (D... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78468?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78456?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Greenhouse-gas emissions plotted against overall environmental impacts of 29 transport fuels, scaled relative to gasoline. Fuels in the shaded area are considered advantageous in both their overall environmental impacts and greenhouse-gas emissions. ... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:12:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78456?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78432?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 On the basis of what has happened over the past year in the bioenergy and biofuels debate, Biopact concludes that to many European organisations Africa does simply not exist. We regret this, because last time we checked, the continent did exist. We h... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:45:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78432?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78433?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 The EU should abandon its liquid biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of British MPs says. The Environmental Audit Committee writes in an audit current biofuels for transport are ineffective at cutting greenhouse ga... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:31:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78433?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78340?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Etc., Ethanol, Green DailyHistoric racing is very popular these days, particularly in Europe. However, as some modern series such as A1GP and the ALMS are moving toward using biofuels and alternative drive-trains, organizers of historics... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78340?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78332?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Norway will accelerate its reductions of carbon dioxide emissions to be completely carbon neutral by 2030 20 years ahead of the original target. The climate policy underlying this is the result of an agreement between the government of Prime Minist... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:25:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78332?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78323?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Researchers from the University of Ghent and the from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), have come to some highly counter-intuitive findings about environmentalism, agricul... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:48:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78323?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78301?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 A report leaked from inside the Joint Research Commission, the official scientific agency of Europe's lawmakers, warns just days before the EU plans to announce its new energy plan that the anticipated commitment to a minimum of 10% biofuels use in t... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:00:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78301?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78259?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Hybrid, ToyotaAccording to AFP, the Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting Toyota plans to bring a hybrid to the Le Mans 24 hour race in France. An unnamed Toyota official told Yomiuri Shimbun, Audi proved the superiority of t... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:12:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78259?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78260?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Emerging Technologies, USAThe latest innovative method to produce biofuels (at least that we know about) has arrived with bacteria. A group of UCLA scientists have manipulated a set of Eschericha coli bacteria with genetic engineering so... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:51:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78260?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78160?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Climate Progress is no fan of using food crops for fuel. Neither, it seems, is the New York Times or the world's undernourished, with this long article, An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories. The whole story is worth reading, es... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:53:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78160?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78158?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Accoring to Brazil's state news agency, the country's biofuel sector will open its own 'ethanol embassy' in Brussels, as a way to promote the highly efficient fuel.The Sugarcane Industry Union (UNICA) will open an office in the capital of the EU, and... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:17:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78158?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78169?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Ethanol, Manufacturing/PlantsWhile ethanol prices might be trending upwards, there was some bad news from hopeful ethanol player BioFuel Energy Corp. this week. Two of the company's 115 mgpy plants that are under construction (in Wood Ri... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:33:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78169?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78143?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Reuters. Although Petrobras has adapted four refineries to produce H-Bio renewable diesel (earlier post) using mineral and vegetable oil, it has yet to start mass production due to the high price of soy oil.Petrobras downstream director Paulo Roberto... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:07:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78143?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78117?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Diesel, Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, Detroit Auto ShowThe 2008 Detroit Auto Show is opening up to the public on Saturday and the media previews were chock full of announcements of new flex-fuel and diesel vehicles. The flex-fuel reveals ran the g... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:36:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78117?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/78105?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Pleasonton-based Safeway has been riding the good-PR wave ever since it announced its intention to go green in a big way. While the company simply can't buy the good publicity that its recent announcement about switching its truck fleet to biofuel ge... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:04:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/78105?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/78065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 The Seattle Times wrote up a nice story on the Enerprise Seattle event at which I spoke yesterday. my piece:Dozens of local clean-technology companies -- enterpriseSeattle estimates more than 400 -- have been formed.Access to capital is still a big ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:58:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/78065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 By Tom PhilpottA fifth of the Amazon rainforest -- the world's biggest carbon sponge -- has disappeared since the 1970s. The Brazilian government has succeeded in recent years in slowing the deforestation rate, but its efforts have recently been falt... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:35:41 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78092?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-FuelWhile we spent a lot of late 2007 talking about the very real ethanol glut that was happening in America, the good news for people who have a lot invested in the biofuel (farmers, for one) is that prices have been on th... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:34:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78092?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 According to some scientists, genetically engineered products have become indispensable. For example, genetically modified bacteria produce human insulin. In the future, gene therapy should make it possible to introduce genes into the cells of a dise... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:15:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78080?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 A preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The genetic informa... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:48:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78080?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78011?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The preliminary data can be accessed... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:33:27 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78011?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78012?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 The costs of achieving the proposed 10% biofuels target in Europe will likely outweigh the benefits and may not even reduce greenhouse gas emissions according to an internal working document by the European Commission's Joint Research Center, leaked ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:02:51 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78012?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78029?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Of all the renewables, biomass is by far the most cost-effective and flexible for the generation of climate friendly power and heat. Neither wind nor solar can compete with bio-electricity, especially when the solid biofuel needed to generate it is g... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:20:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78029?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78030?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Tiger Ethanol International announced it has agreed with the local government to invest in sugar beet production in China's Fujian province, as a way to reduce its reliance on corn. The company is opting for a 'flex factory' model that can switch bet... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78030?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78031?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Despite concerns about global warming and the impact of biofuel production on food prices, policy makers have done little to boost international trade of cheaper and more environmentally friendly fuels for consumers, experts told the Reuters Global A... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:57:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78031?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78044?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 TreeHugger loves plug-in hybrids, and here is the best one yet- the Cruzin Cooler goes 13 mph for up to 15 miles on a charge, and carries a case of ethanol-enhanced biofuel in the form of ice cold beer. Not for San Francisco though- These units are ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:41:36 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78044?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78032?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 In what could be the forced start of the implementation of a 'Biopact', the European Commission's own scientific institute, the Joint Research Centre, writes in an unpublished and unreviewed report that circulated last year in the Commission, that th... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/78032?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/77972?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 PetroSun, Inc. (PINK: PSUD) announced that its subsidiary, PetroSun BioFuels Refining, has entered into a joint venture to construct and operate a biodiesel refinery near Coolidge, Arizona. The feedstock for the refinery will be algal oil produced by... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:37:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/77972?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77940?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Ford, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Detroit Auto Show During the Detroit Auto Show, a Ford press liaison invited AutoblogGreen and around a dozen other journalists to an on-the-record dinner to talk about sustainability and related topics. As... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:19:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77940?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77942?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, Ethanol, HybridUp through the mid-nineties, Formula One racing was a bastion of technological innovation. Cars ran with 4-, 6-, 8-, 10- and 12-cylinder engines. There were naturally aspirated and turboch... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77942?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77872?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Renewable energy company Xethanol Corporation has made an investment in Carbon Motors Corporation, which is developing a purpose-built law enforcement vehicle featuring a 300 hp diesel engine capable of running on biodiesel.The E7 diesel police car.P... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:08:56 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77872?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77897?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 So VC Vinod Khosla is not happy with with my recent attack on his (willful) ignorance, VC Khosla blows his credibility dissing plug-ins. Grist has given the billionaire a platform to defend himself, but he just spouts even more nonsense in th... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:45:51 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77897?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77837?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Few people know that biomass power plants can be coupled to carbon capture and storage (CCS), to yield negative emissions energy - the most radical tool in the climate fight. Such 'bio-energy with carbon storage' (BECS) systems and the renewable ener... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77837?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77838?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Persistent high oil prices and rapidly growing dependence on imported oil prompt China to further invest in biofuels that yield environmental benefits besides fuel. Forestry administrators told state media they will be planting nearly 7,000 hectares ... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77838?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ethablog/77741?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 H-Bio, an experimental variety of biodiesel presented with great pomp by Petrobras in May 2006, promised, according to the Brazilian state-owned energy company, to save the country USD240 million in 2007, with a 25% reduction in imports of regular di... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:57:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ethablog/77741?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77740?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 In a twist of irony, if the European Parliament and environmentalists have things their way, they could be banning the bulk of biofuels produced in Europe and the US, slow the fight against climate change, promote fossil fuels that pump out more emis... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77740?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77687?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41 Image courtesy of Wrote via flickrAmidst renewed fears over the impact of biofuels on the environment, which a recent Royal Society report warned could do more harm than good, the European Union has issued a draft law that would propose a ban on th... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77687?rsstype=populararticles&cid=41