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A Canadian biodiesel plant plans to crank out 7 million gallons of the green fuel a year, but none of it is intended for use north or south of the border. Biodiesel Magazine reports Biofuel Weiss Inc.'s Halifax, Nova Scotia, multifeedstock biodiesel refinery ...

Previous work by Atsumi's lab has engineered this organism to recycle carbon dioxide into a variety of biofuels and valuable chemicals in the presence of light. Any cost-effective, cyanobacterial biofuel production scheme would use natural lighting conditions, ...

A new strain of yellow-green algae, called “heterococcus sp. DN1,” that may prove to be an efficient source for biodiesel, has been discovered in the snow fields of the Rocky Mountains. Research examining the discovery, published in Biotechnology Progress, ...

Launched in 2007, the CCXR is a flex fuel version of the CCX which can run on either gas or ethanol, and in any mixture between these two fuels. Ethanol has a higher octane figure of 113 compared to 95 for gasoline and thus helps the 4.7-liter supercharged ...

However, solar, wind power and biofuels have all been economic disasters, and they have not reduced carbon-dioxide emissions. Biofuel production has dramatically increased greenhouse-gas emissions. The price of food continues to climb as we turn corn ...

PORTSMOUTH — Energy production and consumption in Northern New England isn't just about oil, gas and electric anymore. The landscape also includes solar, wind, biomass, pellet, waste-to-energy, tidal power and hydro-electric.

Imagine a world where leftover corn, wheat and wood chips could power your car.That's the aim of cellulosic ethanol, a budding sector of the renewable fuel industry that finds itself struggling to reassert itself in a world of renewed popularity for oil and gas. The process aims to transform agriculture waste, most of which would normally be discarded, into a renewable source of fuel

HASTINGS — A Hastings ethanol plant that announced in February that it would temporarily shut down will not reopen. The Ag Processing Inc. cooperative said Friday that it is permanently shutting down the 55-million-gallon-a-year plant, citing the plant's age ...

After a drought, record-high corn prices and plant shutdowns, ethanol producers say 2013 has to be better.

A company looking to produce biofuel from algae has abandoned its pilot plant in Karratha, in the north-west of Western Australia, saying it's too expensive to continue research and development work in the region. Karratha, with its high temperatures and low ...

The mandated blending of ethanol in motor fuel -- specifically when produced from corn -- is a highly controversial issue. Is it really corrosive to engines at concentrations of just 10%? What about 15% blends? Does it really cost drivers at the pump? If so, how ...

When the factory she worked at closed down, Tammy Thomas reinvented herself as a community organizer; and when Dean Price's truck stop business went belly up, he became a champion of biofuel. In a new book, George Packer examines how ordinary people are adapting to a new America.

HASTINGS — Chief Ethanol Fuels in Hastings has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to help support its efforts in the production of advanced biofuels.

No matter how hard the Green Lobby pushes ethanol in gasoline, there is no debate: it is the scourge of outboard motors, 4-strokes included. Currently all Maine gasoline contains 10 percent ethanol, which is alcohol made from corn.There is a move afoot at ...