Tag: Biofuels - Page 5
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Monbiot: Biofuels for Electricity is "Eco Vandalism"
Image credit: pawpaw67, used under Creative Commons license. Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green(er) practices, but that's unlikely to appease George Monbiot. He has long been a critic of biofuels for vehicles, but he is absolutely
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Shell Quits Last Algae Biofuel Commitment - Still Backing Ethanol & Cellulosic Biofuels
A quick update on some technological shake out in biofuels: Renewable Energy World reports that Shell has quit its last agreement in algae biofuels, exiting a partnership with HR BioPetroleum and its demonstration
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US States Exporting Own Renewable Energy While Importing Coal, Whaaat?!?
It's may not be revelatory for some people, but Union of Concerned Scientists has a pretty cool game/educational doohickey out that highlights how many utilities, particularly in Southern and Midwest states are importing coal for electricity even when
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Vinod Khosla's Biofuels 101 Refresher Course - Sort Out the Hype From the Hope in Liquid Renewable Fuels
After a good long while in the spotlight, and lots of panacea-like promises that turned out to be pandora's boxes, biofuels have faded into the green scenery a bit. Which isn't to say there isn't a place for them in a future low- or no-carbon energy
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Biofuels Can At Most Supply Half of Global Fuel Demand Before Cutting Into Food Production
It's a few years behind the now-passed biofuels-as-panacea hype, but research published in the Environmental Science and Technology finds that while a fairly significant amount of the current global liquid fuel
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Airline to Launch Massive Biojet Fuel-from-Waste Project
British Airways is already working on a goal of running planes on 10% made-from-waste biofuel, Air New Zealand has a goal of using one million barrels of sustainable biofuels by 2013, and
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Orwellian Alan Oxley's Pro-Palm Oil Claims Mislead the Public: Top Indonesian Climate Official
If you follow the problems with palm oil and deforestation in Southeast Asia you've no doubt come across Alan Oxley and his shilling for big timber--for which a group of scientists recently chided him, for massive
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World's First Biofueled Passenger Flight to Launch Next Year
There's been plenty of talk and a lot of testing when it comes to various kinds of biofuel-powered airplanes. So far, biofuels have been relegated to the runways for experimental flights. But in 2011, the German
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Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Ethanol
Photo: World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-SA Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea -- there's little disagreement about that, especially in environmental circles. For starters, it's an inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce
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EU Biofuel Expansion Plans Worse For Environment Than Burning Fossil Fuels, New Report Claims
The old spectre of indirect land-use change and biofuels again rears its head: A new report from the Institute for European Environmental Policy looks at the increase in greenhouse gas emissions that could result from
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XBOX Kinect Launch in Times Square Powered by Biofuel
In the middle of Times Square on a cold November evening, XBOX launched its new controller-free gaming system Kinect. In NYC fashion, it was a gigantic party with lights, cameras, hundreds of dancers, performances by Ne-Yo and
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Author of 'The Biochar Solution' Says 'It's Not a Solution' (Video)
Some believe biochar could offset as much as 12% of CO2 emissions, but others warn that biochar is no miracle cure—with the prospects of large-scale biochar plantations and other such enterprises getting activists
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Algenol's Algae-to-Ethanol Delivers 67% to 87% Reduction in CO2
Photo: Algenol Compared to Gasoline Algenol is working on making ethanol from algae in photobioreactors connected to power plants. Like with all types of biofuels, the most important question with algae-ethanol has always been: Is it really greener than
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Corn Ethanol, Biofuel's Eldest Poster Child, Is Off To Environmental Reform School
This week USEPA announced that the maximum ethanol content of motor fuel sold in the USA would be allowed to rise from 10% to 15%. Positives of the Agency's decision are: reduced dependence on foreign
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UConn Tests Demonstrate Great Potential of Hemp Biodiesel
Some regular TreeHugger readers (and commenters, you know who you are...) are no doubt exclaiming that they being saying the same thing for years, that hemp makes great biofuel--if only the Feds would get out of the way. Well, researchers
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Biofuel's Bumpy Road: The Trials and Tribulations of Algae, Palm Oil, Bioelectricity, Feedstocks, & Birds
The biofuel craze passed a while ago and more sober assessments of their promises and problems took over, but that doesn't mean by a long shot that there isn't plenty of interesting ongoing work being done. Here's just a
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Bike Trail Being Paved With Asphalt Made From Plants Instead of Oil
Asphalt is usually made from the bottom of the barrel, the dregs of the oil refining process. But then along came the tar sands and better
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Cooking on Poop Gas Takes Off
We've already seen one company in the UK selling biogas direct to the consumer, and extolling its vegan virtues too. Now households in Oxfordshire, UK, will be cooking and heating their
