Energy Department Bets $30 Million On More & Better Biofuel, With Robots (& Drones)
The Energy Department has announced a whopping $30 million round of projects for biofuel research using robots and drones to conduct fieldwork, in fields.
The Energy Department has announced a whopping $30 million round of projects for biofuel research using robots and drones to conduct fieldwork, in fields.
First there was Formula A, then Formula E, and look out, here comes Formula B: a car that uses evaporation-assisted bacterial spores as a form of biofuel.
The company Joule is giving nightmares to the corn ethanol industry with a new round of $40 million in financing to scale up its recycled CO2-to-fuel plant.
Yet another sustainability threefer for algae: producing algae biofuel from municipal wastewater, removing pollutants, and saving energy, too.
While oil prices fall off the cliff, Boeing, SSA, Sunchem, and SkyNRG are still forging ahead with the Solaris Project for aviation biofuel from tobacco.
In a twist on the “artificial leaf” theme, a research team from Australia has developed a new way to lower the cost of hydrogen for FCEVs, with solar power.
In the latest solar cell breakthrough, a new “artificial leaf”mimics the electron transfer of photosynthesis, at a much faster rate than observed in nature.
The brave new world of next generation biofuel has pushed the US Environmental Protection Agency into some strange new places. The agency has just given the thumbs-up to a genetically modified bacterium from the company Joule, which brings us one giant step closer to next generation biofuels made from sunlight and carbon dioxide.
An energy-efficient method of recovering economically valuable minerals and materials from wastewater has been developed by researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In addition to the new approach to recovering resources from industrial wastewater, the researchers also developed new ‘rapid tools’ for the identification of various environmental pollutants. … [continued]
When we say hot sugar, we mean a new generation of low cost industrial sugars that could help pull the biofuel market out of dependence on conventional crop based sugars. That leaves the field clear for the algae biofuel sector, and that’s where things start to get interesting. A company … [continued]