Richland WA (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 - New research has found cover crops that are viable in Washington's normal off season don't hurt the soil and can be sold as a biofuel source. After harvest, farmland often sits fallow and un| Bio Fuel Daily
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 14, 2025 Brazil, India, Italy and Japan vowed Tuesday to quadruple their production and consumption of renewable fuels, hoping other countries will join the pledge during UN climate talks in November. "We hope to have a good number of signatories" by COP30, Brazilian foreign ministry official Joao Marcos Paes Leme told reporters in the capital Brasilia. "Other European countries are also interest| Oil and Gas News
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2025 Researchers at the University of Cambridge report a solar-powered biohybrid device that turns sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into formate, delivering a clean feedstock for further synthesis. The semi-artificial leaf uses light-harvesting organic polymers coupled with bacterial enzymes, aiming to help de-fossilise a chemical sector responsible for roughly 6% of global emissions. The tea| Oil and Gas News
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Oct 8, 2025 - European carmakers Wednesday urged the EU to relax its 2035 ban on combustion-engine sales by allowing cars that run on alternative fuels, among a list of demands that environmentalists slammed as a disgrace.| Bio Fuel Daily
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and the Natural Resources Institute Finland have demonstrated that adding ash to anaerobic digestion enhances methane production and strengthens the fertilizing properties of the resulting digestate. The study, recently published in Biomass and Bioenergy, highlights ash as a promising additive for both energy generation and sustainable agriculture.| Bio Fuel News - Liquid Fuels For The 21st Century
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 Filling abandoned oil and gas wells with bio-oil derived from corn stover, switchgrass, wood debris, and other organic byproducts may offer a cost-effective way to trap carbon dioxide underground. Researchers at Iowa State University, led by mechanical engineering professor Mark Mba-Wright, analyzed the economics and feasibility of this approach in a new study. The technique relies on fast| Bio Fuel News - Liquid Fuels For The 21st Century
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 - When you stream a movie, back up a photo or ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data center is working hard - and getting hot. Cooling those facilities already consumes a huge share of their electri| Bio Fuel Daily
Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 In collaboration with other Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) are developing industrially feasible techniques for second-generation biofuel production from oilcane, an oil-rich variety of sugarcane, to help meet our growing societal demand for fuels. In a traditional biorefinery, sugarcane is used as a fee| Oil and Gas News
Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 05, 2025 For years, scientists have marveled at bacteria's ability to digest the seemingly indigestible, including carbon from lignin, the tough, woody material that gives plants their rigidity. Now, a new Northwestern University study shows that Pseudomonas putida, a common soil bacterium, completely reorganizes its metabolism to thrive on these complex carbons. By slowing down some metabolic path| Oil and Gas News
London (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - British oil giant Shell announced Wednesday it has abandoned construction of one of Europe's largest biofuel plants in the Netherlands, as it focuses on its fossil fuels business.| Bio Fuel Daily
London (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 - Drax, a British generator of electricity, said Thursday it is under investigation by the UK financial watchdog over its sourcing of wood for biomass, sending its shares tumbling in London.| Bio Fuel Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 - A Stanford-led team has developed a prototype that converts urine into fertilizer while also generating electricity and improving sanitation. The system, detailed in Nature Water, recovers ammonia u| Bio Fuel Daily
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - A team of agricultural economists, environmental scientists and policy experts envisions a path toward a carbon-neutral agricultural future by expanding the reach of policies designed to promote low| Bio Fuel Daily
Rome (AFP) June 24, 2025 Italy's competition watchdog said Tuesday it has fined oil giant Eni and its plastics unit Novamont some 32 million euros ($37 for abuse of a dominant market position in plastic bag production. The AGCM watchdog accuses Novamont of having contracts with plastic bag manufacturers and large retailers that include "exclusivity" clauses obliging them to source Mater-Bi, a degradable plastic mate| Bio Fuel News - Liquid Fuels For The 21st Century
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 - Researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) have developed a method to convert polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, into gas using electron bea| Bio Fuel Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - A team at Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) has developed a method to recycle the durable plastic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) using electron beam (EB) irradiati| Bio Fuel Daily
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 - Ammonia is the most widely produced chemical in the world today, used primarily as a source for nitrogen fertilizer. Its production is also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions - the highest i| Bio Fuel Daily
