Month: September 2010

Malaysia’s once-vaunted biofuel industry has seen production grind to a halt since a March announcement that the government’s mandatory switch to the green energy will be delayed to June 2011. Malaysia had ambitions...

Scientists from the University of Twente reporting a breakthrough in the production of biofuel. They have managed to turn an agricultural waste oil to make the same properties as crude oil. Thus the oil can be processed in...

A new farm assurance scheme for biofuel crops will give UK arable farmers the edge in Europe’s rapidly growing bioenergy market. The scheme, which will form part of the Red Tractor Assured Combinable Crops and Sugar Beet Scheme,...

One mention of E. coli conjures images of sickness and food poisoning, but the malevolent bacteria may also be the key to the future of renewable energy. Desmond Lun, an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers...

Officials in the USA’s State of South Carolina’s capital city are turning one man’s trash into a treasure of sorts — fuel that they’ll use to transport more trash. Columbia city officials on Monday. Officials are...