biomass

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary, Tom Vilsack, has announced the establishment of a 50,000-acre project area under the USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). The project's aim is to promote the production of dedicated feedstocks for bioenergy and to spur the development ...

A Finnish politician by the name of Juha Sipila has converted his U.S.-built 1987 Chevrolet El Camino to run on wood gas, and we have an El Camino to rival Daryl Hannah's old biodiesel ride. Sipila's El Camino, dubbed El Kamina (The Stove), features a wood gas setup – similar to the ones ...

To support President Obama's goal of reducing America's oil imports by a third by 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will accept applications for $12 million in funding for laboratory or small pilot-scale projects aimed at developing advanced biofuels. Successful projects ...

Back in January, Ineos Bio, along with joint venture partner New Planet Energy, received a conditional $75 million guaranteed loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program. Well, it didn't take long for Ineos and NPE, under the JV name of Ineos New ...

Ineos Bio, along with joint venture partner New Planet Energy (NPE), has received a conditional $75 million guaranteed loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program. Ineos and NPE will utilize the funds to construct its BioEnergy Center outside of Vero ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Biomass Program will host a webinar entitled "The Promise and Challenge of Algae as a Renewable Source of Biofuels" later today (2-4:30 p.m. EDT). This online conference marks the beginning of the DOE's series of webinars that will focus on the development of ...

Corn ethanol promoters, get out your keyboards. You've got another dragon to slay. A new study has found that it is more efficient to straight-up burn plant material to generate electricity and then charge up electric vehicles than to make ethanol for those vehicles. Professor Elliot Campbell at ...

Cyclone Power Technologies, which we've previously featured for its engine that runs on waste heat, has recently been awarded a contract to build the first stages of an Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (seriously, eater?) for a project that's sponsored by DARPA. Basically, as we understand ...

Ever since the debut of the Audi R10 in 2006, the mighty diesel-powered sports cars have been running on a gas-to-liquid (GTL) diesel fuel supplied by Shell. For the 2008 running of the 24 hours of Le Mans coming up in a few weeks, Audi and Shell will try a new blend that combines the GTL fuel with ...

The project BioReGen is a very interesting plan developed on abandoned industrial estate in the north-east of England (Durham County). Basically, the project recovers polluted land by planting specific crops - in this case, crops intended for biofuels. The process is called biorecovery (see also ...