News about Biofuels, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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MADE THOUGHT – GREEN BIOFUELS

Advanced (also known as second-generation and third-generation) biofuels must comply with sustainability criteria related to the feedstock used (not competing directly or indirectly with food or feed crops) and to their greenhouse gases emission reduction. These fuels must reach at least 0.2% of transport energy used in Europe in 2022, 1% in 2025, and 3.5% by 2030. In this chapter, sustainable feedstocks that could be used for producing advanced biofuels are reviewed: energy crops grown on marginal land; wastes and residues—agricultural, forestry, food, municipal solid waste, and other organic wastes and residues; and novel feedstocks—such as aquatic biomass (macroalgae and microalgae).

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Biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass holds the key to supplying society’s basic needs without impacting the nation’s food supply.

A series of increasingly demanding Navy biofuel tests culminated in July 2012 with a task force of U.S. Navy ships and aircraft operating off the West Coast powered by biofuels.

"Coal, oil, natural gas, shale gas and gas from fracking are fossil fuels formed hundreds of millions of years ago from living things that got trapped by layers of sediment before they had time to decompose. Humans have been burning fossil fuels for about 300 years. As a result the amount of carbon dioxide in…

Algae. Some are green, some are red, some are brown. Some are slimy, tiny or huge. On first glance, you would think that they don’t do much, that they just sit there passively waiting out life’s storms and seasons. But on a microscopic level they come to life. Each algal cell has the fundamental organelles…

Airlines are bracing for a fuel price increase and looking to biofuels as a short- and long-term solution to unpredictable oil markets.

Biomass is converted into biofuels through thermal technologies and biological process. Presently we are using liquid fuels like diesel and petrol for transportation and other industrial stuff. But continue rising cost of petroleum-based liquid fuels encourages us to move toward using of biofuels. Biofuel is a non-polluting fuel obtained from renewable sources. Biofuels are more…

Ants are amazing insects, and fungus-growing ants are perhaps the most amazing of all. This group includes the leafcutter ants that you’ve probably seen on David Attenborough’s TV programmes, carrying carefully cut leaf fragments to their nests along well-defined trails in the rainforest. Millions of ants can be found within a single underground nest the…

It’s hard to think of a humbler organism than algae, or a less-likely prospect to become savior of our energy future. “Algae fuel” does not conjure up images of power, big business or high-tech gadgetry; it suggests a modest picture of a murky pond covered by a greasy, greenish film.

Behind a new project, scientists believed that they have reached an advanced stage in their effort to turn algae into solar-powered factories for producing the wonder material nanocellulose.

Promising but sometimes controversial, alternative fuels offer a path away from their fossil-based counterparts.

The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil "sustainable". Tell the EU to abandon its misguided biofuels policy now.

UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells.

The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. A new study finds that, between 2006 and 2011, U.S. farmers converted more …

Researchers for the Dept of Energy are working improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of the gasification and fuel synthesis process

Fundamental work is being conducted by the Department of Energy that provides a solid understanding of the chemistry of biomass pyrolysis, including stabiliz...