Biofuels Archives

Porsche Backs Synthetic Fuels To Keep Classics On The Road

November 17th, 2020 | by Jo Borrás

Porsche is hoping synthetic fuels will help to keep classic Porsches running -- and running carbon neutral! -- well into the future

EU Diesel Drivers Burn 100× More Palm Oil Than All Oreo Cookies In World

July 8th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan

Transport & Environment (T&E) has release a report that shows that EU drivers burn more palm oil in their diesel fuel in a year than is put in all of the Oreo cookies in the world each year

Stripe Is Spending $1 Million To Fight Climate Change

May 22nd, 2020 | by Johnna Crider

Stripe has revealed it is spending $1 million to fight climate change. For those who may not know what Stripe is, it's an online payment platform that allows online sellers such as myself to accept credit card payments, Apple Pay, or even Google Pay for goods and services

Agriculture

Cuba Is Boosting Climate Resilience In Agriculture

May 22nd, 2020 | by Johnna Crider

In a post by the Environmental Defense Fund, the organization shares that Cuba is boosting climate resilience in agriculture and explains three things that the small island country could show us

Aviation

This Aircraft Is Powered With Electricity, & It Is Already Heading For The Skies

May 7th, 2020 | by Tina Casey

While we're waiting for the plasma jet of the future, startups are already deploying electricity and biofuel to push fossil fuels out of aircraft

Biofuels

Volkswagen Has A Plan To Restart Production, Restates 2020 Financial Guidance

April 16th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

Volkswagen has already restarted several factories around the world after taking many steps to safeguard the health of its workers. It plans to restart vehicle production in Europe this week.

Agriculture

Demand For Palm Oil Is Burning Indonesia

March 12th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider

The demand for palm oil is burning Indonesia, quite literally. These annual infernos, according to experts, have ignited a "climate bomb." And until Western consumers say stop, the fires will continue to burn

Biofuels

Celebrating 20 Years of “Louisiana Clean Fuels,” + Golfer Can Win Jaguar I-PACE

March 5th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider

Louisiana Clean Fuels is hosting the Clean Fuels Classics, and one lucky golfer will win a Jaguar I-PACE on Friday, March 13th, donated by Baton Rouge's Paretti Family of Dealerships. The brand new, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE will be given to a lucky golfer who gets a hole-in-one at their sponsored hole at the Clean Fuels Classic Golf Tournament

Air Quality

Delta Airlines’ Claim Of Becoming Carbon Neutral In March Is Disingenuous At Best

February 14th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard

The Delta CEO said that the company isn’t going to decarbonize, it isn’t going to buy offsets, and they are going to spend about $100 million a year moving chairs around on the deck of the Hindenburg

Biofuels

Bio-Diesel Could Lower Hapag-Lloyd Cargo Ship Emissions

February 11th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

Hapag-Lloyd is testing a new marine fuel that combines low sulfur bunker oil with biodiesel to reduce carbon emissions.

Aviation

EasyJet 1st Airline In World To Go Carbon Neutral — Starting Today

November 19th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider

In a corporate press release, EasyJet today announced that as of today all of its flights will be carbon neutral. EasyJet has a total of 331 airplanes and will become the first major airline in the world to operate a fleet that is fully net-zero carbon. What this means a little more specifically is that EasyJet will have balanced all of its carbon emissions via carbon removal efforts

Agriculture

UPDATE: Democratic Candidates’ Climate Plans Comparison, Now With Mayor Pete

November 8th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard

With Buttigieg surging, and CleanTechnica’s deep dives into the front runners (and Yang’s) plans completed, it’s time for the overview comparison, now with Mayor Pete added

Biofuels

Turning Landfill Gas Into Renewable Natural Gas

November 2nd, 2019 | by Johnna Crider

Landfill gas is created by landfills, which account for 16% of the human-caused (anthropogenic) methane emissions in America. This is not what many people worry about when they think of greenhouse gases, it's important. Thanks to the work of many nonprofits, government programs, and corporations that work in the transportation industry, though, we have a way to use this gas to help lower emissions

Biofuels

CleanTechnica Report: A case study into a technology that should be set aside until 2050, Carbon Engineering’s air-to-fuel fig leaf

October 28th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard

Researching air-carbon capture for use post-2050 remains a very good means of establishing the intellectual capital and basic technologies for when it makes sense to use them. But attempts to commercialize them today are premature

Biofuels

Can Tesla Save The Earth?

October 27th, 2019 | by Andy Miles

That question “can Tesla save the Earth?” is a condensed way of asking, what impact can Tesla cars and electric vehicles in general have in our war against climate change? War it is, because we either win and survive, or we lose and perish, and losing is unthinkable, so certainly we have to do everything we can to live more responsibly and more sustainably. We either change voluntarily with the possibility of a favorable outcome, or change will be forced upon us in the most drastic, cataclysmic, and unpleasant way possible. The choice is ours

Autonomous Vehicles

Takeaways from the Clean Fuels Summit in New Orleans

October 25th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider

Louisiana Clean Fuels and Clean Cities Coalition recently teamed up to bring the Clean Fuels Summit to New Orleans. This was an event that landed me in the Harrah's Casino Hotel by the Riverwalk, where I could hear the blasts from the river cruises nearby. On the evening before the summit, LCF held an awards ceremony where Executive Director Ann Vail honored several partners and businesses that help to advance the nation’s environmental, economic, and energy security by supporting local actions to diversify transportation fuel options

Biofuels

Tesla Owners, UPS, & Others Awarded By Louisiana Clean Fuels

October 19th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider

It was a mild and breezy evening on Fulton Street Alley in New Orleans, where several supporters and stakeholders who hope to make a difference in the world via alternative fuels came together for an award ceremony presented by Louisiana Clean Fuels (LCF)