A startup based in Cambridge, MA–Joule Biotechnologies–today revealed details of a process that it says can make 20,000 gallons of biofuel per acre per year. If this yield proves realistic, it could ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Dec. 1, 2015) -- While people who go to the beach and lakes may think of algae as a slimy nuisance, Picatinny engineers have partnered with private industry to harness its ...

Biofuel production can be an expensive process that requires considerable fossil fuels, but a Missouri S&T microbiologist’s patented process could reduce the cost and the reliance on fossil fuels, ...

Colorado Mountain College’s Rifle campus strives to stay on the forefront of leading integrated technologies. Dr. Dennis Zhang is one example of the outstanding faculty bringing this leading ...

Taking a chemical approach, researchers have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process is unprecedented in its use of untreated, ...

Biofuel is often touted as a clean fuel, but the fact that it is made using food sources is a major drawback. To address this issue, there has been continuous research on the development of ...

Biofuel doesn’t always have the best reputation, especially when it’s made out of biomass grown on arable land that could be used for food production. But when the stuff is made out of waste–food ...

Thanks to scientists harnessing the power of chemistry, you may one day soon fly in a plane fueled by plants. An article published in the journal Nature last week describes a new technique developed ...

Researchers from the United States Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that water helps form an impurity which slows down key chemical reaction in the biofuel ...

In order to improve the sustainability credentials of biofuels, experts have been trying to figure out ways to produce them from non-food sources, such as cellulose – the material that makes up the ...