Thank Me Later: New Planet-Saving Bacteria Eats Switchgrass, Makes Biofuel
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have cooked up a new bacteria to improve their “one pot” method for producing a critical jet biofuel precursor from switchgrass. Yes, switchgrass.
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Switchgrass Will Power Navy Jet Fighters With 95% Less Greenhouse Emissions
The more you poke at the Navy biofuel initiatives, the more you just seem to rile them up. Earlier this spring, for example, the Navy went ahead and announced a new round of $18 million in matching funds for four new biofuel pilot projects shortly after certain members of Congress … [continued]
Switchgrass Biofuel Potentially Cheaper Than Oil for Heating Homes
To be filed in the category of everything old is new again: a new study from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) suggests that millions of homes and businesses in the U.S. would save money by burning biomass in their basement furnaces instead of oil, in form of switchgrass biofuel … [continued]
New “Frankenstein” Switchgrass is Good News for the Navy, Too
Despite aggressive pushback from anti-biofuel leadership in Congress, it looks like the U.S. Navy is well on the way to getting its biofuel after all. A new biofuel research project pairing the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the University of California, Berkeley has yielded a new cobbled-together variety of switchgrass that contains up … [continued]
Lab-Grown Meat Meets Green Hydrogen…Whut?!?
Green hydrogen could play a key role in the future of lab-grown meat, along with a whole new generation of cultivated proteins.
The Pathways To Biofuels: A Survey Of Why We Should Stop Fretting
We have enough waste biomass feedstock to fulfill all of our transportation needs, and the market and a bunch of bright people will figure out which ones are cheapest and lowest impact.
Next-Gen EV Batteries From Wood Pulp: Yet Another Reason To Hug A Tree
The biggest eucalyptus grower in the world is pushing for EV batteries made with wood pulp.
Peptoids Add Spice To New Biofuel Formula For Aircraft & More
As much as we love electric airplanes over here at CleanTechnica, zero emission flight at any significant scale is still years away. That’s why aviation stakeholders are so keen on biofuel. Cost and supply chain issues block the way, but a team of US researchers in the Pacific Northwest has … [continued]
Plastics Will Be Toast, Thanks To Moonlighting Microbes
A new breakthrough in bio-based plastics aims a dagger at the heart of petrochemicals and fossil fuels, too
Biofuel Gets Another “Never Surrender!” Moment
New research on biofuel from cyanobacteria provides a glimmer of hope for biofuel fans in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
