Which countries produce the most biofuels?
Biofuels — liquid fuels made from everything from algae to corn — haven’t yet come anywhere close to replacing crude oil.
US earmarks $510m for biofuels, seeks matching private investment
The US Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million over the next three years in
OriginOil takes algae process to commercialisation
California-based OriginOil is shifting from the development phase to the commercialisation phase in its goal of transforming algae into a
Energy revolutions: No overnight delivery
The cleantech company with the mystery microorganism it says can convert sunlight into liquid fuel announced this week it had
Low-tech reactor converts wastes into clean fuels
A relatively inexpensive and low-tech reactor could help convert agricultural waste, used cooking oil and other biomass into super-clean fuels
It greens, it cleans, it fuels power plants: Humble canary grass
What began as an effort to find the best plant for beautifying contaminated industrial site ended up with a serendipitous
Don't write off algae-based biofuels yet, industry says
Algae-based biofuels aren’t all they’re cracked up to be? Not so fast, say those in the — of course
Cut out the energy middlemen: Is it time to forget biofuels?
How much more have we yet to learn about the downsides of growing fuel? Could it ever reach the point
Corn ethanol curse strikes again? Algae fuels have large footprint
Could algae-based biofuels suffer the same fate as the now much-discredited corn-based ethanol? They might, if we don’t find
Self-destructing bacteria could make for cheaper biofuels
US researchers believe they might have found a way to make biofuels cheaper and easier to produce … by genetically programming