1,750 Reasons Not To Ditch Your Old Gasmobile
Proteomic research has uncovered a whopping 1,750 unique proteins in switchgrass, clearing a new path for then development of next generation biofuel.
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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]
Solar-Electric Cars Crush Biofuels In Efficiency
Reposted from Climate Progress: Climate Progress recently reported on a study that found both economic and environmental benefits if homes in the northeastern United States upgraded older heating systems by moving from heating oil to switchgrass. However, one point to emphasize was the findings were specific to those circumstances — the region, the … [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]
Farmers in Cahoots with Navy Biofuel Mission
When Republican leadership in Congress tried to torpedo the U.S. Navy’s ambitious biofuel programs last spring, the Navy managed to fight its way around those obstacles. The maneuvers received some media attention at the time, but one strategic ally seems to have slipped under the radar: the U.S. Department … [continued]
“Kitchen Stove” Biorefinery Goes from Grass to Gasoline in One Hour
The California biofuel company Cool Planet BioFuels has announced the successful test of a pilot biorefinery that can convert an acre of the giant grass miscanthus into gasoline at the rate of 4,000 gallons per acre. You read that right – the process yields straight, drop-in quality gasoline that … [continued]
E. Coli Bacteria: What Doesn’t Kill Us, Makes Us Biofuel
That notorious killer bacteria e. coli is making renewable biofuel hand over fist for researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy. Scientists based in DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have tweaked a strain of the bug to munch on tough-to-digest switchgrass like it’s sugar candy, and the result is a process … [continued]
