Biofuels
Ethanol
Articles
Selling a Cleaner, Affordable Cooking Fuel, Ethanol, for Kenyan Homes 1122
Biden Will Allow Summertime Sales of Higher-Ethanol Gasoline 0422
How Corn Ethanol for Biofuel Fed Climate Change 0222
Can Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Take on CO2 Emissions without Destroying Sensitive Forests? 1017
Electric Vehicles Threaten to Overtake Biofuels 0117
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EPA Sets New Biofuel Targets, Which Could End Up on Trump’s Chopping Block 1116
A Plane Full of People Just Flew across the US on Wood-Based Fuel 1116
Biofuels Worse for Climate than Gasoline, Study Finds 0816
Clinton Campaign Studying Alternative to U.S. Ethanol Mandate 0816
Nissan to Develop Ethanol-Based Fuel Cell Technology by 2020 - 0616
Clean Fuel from ‘Bionic Leaf' Could Ease Pressure on Farmland 0616
Solar panels split H2O into O2 and H2. 10% efficient, vs 1% for photosynthesis.
Australia's Defense Force Could Run on Sugar Cane and Tires 0416
Ethanol Mandate, a Boon to Iowa Alone, Faces Rising Resistance 0116
EPA Set to Order Ethanol Increase 1215
Oil Price Slump Taking a Toll on U.S. Alternative Fuels 0115
E.P.A. Postpones Setting Standards for Biofuel Blends 1114
Ethanol's Dwindling Discount from Gasoline Could Slow U.S. Biofuel Demand 1114
Louisiana Biofuels Projects Help Spur Nationwide Green Jobs Growth 1114
Beyond Corn - the New Frontier in Ethanol is Non-Food Biofuel 1014
US Cellulosic Fuel Makers Press Obama to Alter Biofuel Plan 0914
Emmetsburg, Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Opens September 3 - 0814
EPA Mulls Ethanol Change as Industry Profits Soar 0514
Ethanol Fuels Ozone Pollution 0414
Corn Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline on Global Warming in Short Term 0414
Why Hasn’t Cellulosic Ethanol Taken Over, Like It Was Supposed to? 1113
Secret, Dirty Cost of Fuel Ethanol 1113
AAA Asks Feds to Slash Renewable Fuel Requirements 1013
Corn Prices Plunge amid Oversupply, Retreat from Ethanol 1013
Quest for Cheap, Non-Food Biofuel Starts with a Brewery 1013
EPA May Relax (Diminish) Ethanol Mandate in 2014 - 0813
Milestone in Creating Fuel From Waste 0713
Fast Food Chains Pursue Repeal of Renewable Fuel Mandate 0613
Lawmakers Vote to Ban Ethanol in Maine 0513
Squeezing More From Ethanol 0513
USDA Asks for Approval of Sugar for Ethanol 0413
Drought Is Drying Up All Our Ethanol 0413
Ethanol's Days of Promise Fade 0313
Exxon Decades Away from Making Fuel from Algae 0313
Court Overturns EPA’s Cellulosic Biofuels Mandate 0113
House Republicans Plan to Put Ethanol Fuel Standard on Trial 1212
AAA Warns E15 Gasoline Could Damage Cars 1112
Ethanol Mandate Raises Restaurant Costs 1112
Biofuels Can Be Friend or Foe 1009
Exxon Explores Oil from Algae 0809
Biofuels Worse than Oil on GHGs 0208
Fuel Ethanol - Panacea or Miracle? 1007
Ethanol & Renewable Fuels: 25% by 2025 - 1106 - PDF, 114 pp
Ethanol from Corn, Switchgrass, Wood; Biodiesel from Soy, Sunflower - Pimentel 0305 - PDF, 12 pp
Net Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol - Shapouri (USDA) 0704 - PDF
Biofuels Boost GHGs - Searchinger 0208 - PDF
Land use change makes corn ethanol a GHG emitter worse than gasoline.
Biofuels & Carbon Debt - Fargione 0208 - PDF.
17 to 423 years to repay carbon debt from replacing natural ecosystems with ethanol or biodiesel farms. Use only prairie biomass on abandoned or marginal cropland, maybe sugar cane from Brazil's cerrado.
Biogas
Articles
Finnish City Taps Sewers for Energy in Sprint for Net Zero 0522
Oregon Is Turning Sewage into an Endless Supply of Green Energy 0322
Phasing Out Cookstoves a ‘Win-Win’ for Climate and Health 0217 Substitute biogas, electricity for coal, wood, dung.
CLP Power to Tap Methane from Tuen Mun Landfill for Electricity 0117 - outside Hong Kong
Dutch Dairy Industry Launches €150 Million Biogas Project 1116
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Tapping Landfills to Generate Power Seemed Smart, but Is Threatened Now 1016
Biomass Could Help Power Africa’s Energy Transition 0516 - Convert biomass to biogas. Use it to make electricity.
Duke Energy Signs Deal to Turn Pig Poop Into Electricity 0316
Key to Water Security Could Be Lurking in a New Mexico Sewage Farm 0815
Backyard Unit Eats Trash to Make Biofuel 0515 - Israeli one solves efficiency, odor & insect problems of China/India units
UK's 1st ‘Poo Bus' Goes into Regular Service 0315
Turning Muck into Money - the Biogas Revolution Takes Off 0215
Biofuel from Trash Could Create Green Jobs Bonanza in UK & Abroad 0215
Turning Blood to Power, Maasai Pastoralists Begin Bottling Biogas 0115
Central America's New Coffee Buzz - Renewable Energy 1214
Wisconsin's Potawatomi Project Will Use Food Waste to Make Energy 1013
Poop Power - New Generation of California Farmers to Use It 0613
Biodiesel & Jet Fuel
Articles
Grass for Gas? Researchers, Business Weigh Sustainable Aviation Fuel Options 0123
Germany Opens World’s 1st Plant for Clean Jet Fuel 1021
ExxonMobil Gambles on Algae Biofuel 0721
Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions 0118
Planes across Europe to Start Running on Vegetable Oil and Animal Fat 1017
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Are Advanced Biofuels Ready for Takeoff? 0517
Airplanes Flying on Biofuels Emit Fewer Climate-Warming Particles 0317
U.S. Navy 'Green Fleet' Fills Up with Italian-Made Biofuel 0616
Can Corn Make Good Jet Fuel? Alaska Air Says Yes. 0616
Clean Fuel from ‘Bionic Leaf' Could Ease Pressure on Farmland 0616
Solar panels split H2O into O2 and H2. 10% efficient, vs 1% for photosynthesis.
Biofuels Will Power Navy’s Next Deployment 0116
Could Diesel Made from Air Help Tackle Climate Change? 0915
Oil Price Slump Taking a Toll on U.S. Alternative Fuels 0115
Biofuel innovators Look for a Breakout 1214
Governments Seek to Raise EU Cap on Food-Based Biofuels 1113
Finn Researchers Make Cheap Biofuel, US Ones Pull Hydrogen from Water 0813
EU Lawmakers Deal a Blow to Crop-Based Biofuels 0713
Wood
Articles
Emissions, Deforestation Set to Spike under Indonesia’s Biomass Transition 0922
European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy 0922
Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy 0922
The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet 0321
500+ Experts Call on World’s Nations to Not Burn Forests for Energy 0221
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To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things (Wood) 0121
EU Being Sued to Stop Burning Trees for Energy; It’s Not Carbon Neutral 0319
Wood Fuel is Bad News for Climate and Biodiversity 0318
EU’s Renewable Energy Policy Is Making Global Warming Worse 0217
Phasing Out Cookstoves a ‘Win-Win’ for Climate and Health 0217 Substitute biogas, electricity for coal, wood, dung.
Is Wood a Green Source of Energy? Scientists Are Divided 0117
Biomass Power Slumps as EPA, Industry Spar on Science 0816
Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass 0716
Polluted Air Causes 5.5 Million Deaths a Year 0216 - Wood use for cooking and heating (India, Africa, etc.) is a big chunk.
Dutch Lawmakers Call for Halt to Wood Energy Subsidies 0216
Save More than 4 Million Lives a Year by Harnessing the Sun to Cook 0116
US Forests Threatened, as Demand for Wood-Based Biofuels Grows 1015
UK to Build World’s 1st Power Plant with Negative Emissions 0815
How Europe’s Climate Policies Have Led to More Trees Being Cut Down in the US 0615
Burlington, Vermont Goes All Renewable. Keep Wood in the Mix? 0415
Scientists - No, We Can't Fight Climate Change by Burning Trees 0215
Wood Pellets Are the Energy Boom You Haven't Heard About 1214 - above all, US exports to Europe
Fort Drum Powered by Wood in Renewable Energy Push 1114
Biomass Fuel - Worse for Climate than Coal? 0414
Roll on the Green Revolution - Paper Industry 1113
Power Plants Try Burning Wood With Coal to Cut Carbon Emissions 1113
Cleaner Than Coal? Wood Power Makes a Comeback 1013
Wood Could Bring Power to Those without Electricity 0913
Finn Researchers Make Cheap Biofuel, US Ones Pull Hydrogen from Water 0813 - same as above
Misc
Articles
IMO Moves Forward with Interim Guidelines for Ships’ Ammonia Fuel Use 1024
Gates-Backed Startup Is Making Fuel from Water and CO2 - 0424
Giant Methane-to-Methanol Machines Could Curb Methane Emissions 0923
A Green Methanol Pioneer Finally Has a Market 0123
Falling Crop Yields with Warming Could See Rapid Decline in Bioenergy Potential 0922
What’s with Exxon’s Big Algae Push? 0818
Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive Scale 0318
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Bioenergy Has Its Limits for Cutting Emissions 0117 - Offsetting electricity and heat with bioenergy is 1.6–3.9 times more effective at cutting emissions than offsetting liquid fuels
The Great Garbage Fire Debate - Should We Burning Our Trash into Energy? 0117
Carbon-Eating Bacteria Could Be One Answer to Climate Change 1116
Largest Biochar Facility in U.S. Opens at Cornell 0416
United Airlines Is Flying on Biofuels. Why That’s a Really Big Deal. 0316
Polluted Air Causes 5.5 Million Deaths a Year 0216 - Dung use for cooking and heating (India, Africa, etc.) is a chunk.
Oslo Trash Incinerator Starts Experiment to Slow Climate Change 0116
Save More than 4 Million Lives a Year by Harnessing the Sun to Cook 0116
Scientists Seek to Harvest Electricity from Algae in Green-Energy Effort 1115
Researchers Find Sweet Source for Aviation Biofuel 0615
Vietnam Plans to Generate Power from Rice Husks 0415
Waste-to-Energy Revolution Boosted by Bio-Battery Idea 0315
Oil Price Slump Taking a Toll on U.S. Alternative Fuels 0115
Yak Dung Is Making Climate Change Worse 1214
Louisiana Biofuels Projects Help Spur Nationwide Green Jobs Growth 1114
One project is cellulosic ethanol, the other involves bichar and other biofuels.
Scientists Use E.Coli Bacteria to Create Fossil Fuel Alternative 0914
Probes Search Live Cyanobacteria For Biofuel-Production-Boosting Proteins 0814
Brutal Bust in Next-Generation Biofuels, in One Chart 0414
IPCC Eyes New Bio-Energy Fix 0314
Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? Army Test May Tell 0813
Waste CO2 as Power Source, New Super-Capacitor & Hydrogen from Sunlight 0813
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