The Dutch airline KLM has today made important step towards the global aviation industry target of carbon neutral growth from 2020. In the latest in a series of sustainable biofuel flights that have taken place around the world, KLM today conducted a flight partly powered by a biofuel produced from the plant camelina. The flight [...]

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Can the idea of ‘green motorsport’ actually work? Yes, according to EPSRC funded researcher, Dr Kerry Kirwan at the University of Warwick , who led the research team which designed and built the worldfirst fully sustainable Formula 3 racing car.
The car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp for [...]

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If this is true, we could be on the verge of a major breakthrough,
Singaporean researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have devised a way to convert carbon dioxide into clean-burning biofuel methanol, using a safe, non-toxic process. 

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Scientists at Oxford University have devised a way of making the biofuel methanol using glycerol – a chemical found in industrial waste.
The team of researchers say that the process could prove popular as it is direct and therefore cheap and also works at a relatively low temperature.
As well as being used as a fuel on [...]

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Shell revealed that it has partnered with six different academic institutions in order to both research and expand biofuel development. The partnerships are expected to last between two and five years, and will be conducted at the actual institutions. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the participants, along with the University of Campinas [...]

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Biofuel firms from Britain, Netherlands, the United States, Sweden, Japan, Canada and Germany among others are flocking to Africa to secure land. The British firm Sun Biofuels and the Norwegian firm, Biofuel Africa have already secured hundreds of thousands of acres.

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Genetically engineered bacteria could make cellulosic ethanol cheaper to manufacture, researchers reported on Monday, in a finding that may unlock more energy from the waste products of farming and forestry.

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While jatropha is taking off as a biofuel stock, camelina sativa is garnering some attention of its own for its potential as a biofuel that would work with, not against, food crops.

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Chief executive Hamish Curran at the TMO Renewables ethanol plant in Surrey. Photograph: Felix Clay
A detritus-loving bug that can be found in nearly every garden compost heap in the land could be about to transform the way the world makes biofuels.
Initially, it is set to make bioethanol production from corn in the US more efficient, [...]

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It seems that BP is trying to make up for lost time — the worldwide oil giant has invested $90 million in cellulosic ethanol company, Verenium. This is BP’s first foray into the world of cellulosic ethanol (ethanol derived from non-food crops), and man is it a gigantic one.
The money will be distributed to Verenium [...]

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