bioenergy

A new UK study promoting the merits of waste-based biofuel production, once again raises the alarm on the industry's over-emphasis on crop-based fuels.

Mendel Biotechnology and Speedling Inc. announced a collaborative agreement to jointly research, develop, and commercialize a cost-effective propagation and production system for Mendel's advanced miscanthus product candidates.

Last week key players from the Economic Community of West African States met with global industry experts at the Bioenergy Markets Conference in Ghana.

Political and industrial leaders are now in near consensus: The world must change how it produces and consumes energy to address the geopolitical and environmental challenges of our current energy systems. The transition will take decades, but the vision is starting to come into focus.

The latest Electric Power Monthly Report released by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the U.S.

Geobacter, an anaerobic sediment-loving microbe with hair like filaments called pili that are 20,000 times finer than a human hair, was discovered by Derek Lovley and some colleagues in sediment under the Potomac River in 1987.

Seattle-based bioscience firm Targeted Growth Inc. (TGI) has developed a way to increase the lipid content of cyanobacteria by approximately 400 percent.

Fossil fuel baron Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) has entered the biofuels market by investing $600 million into research and development of photosynthetic algae.

Solix Biofuels Inc., who recently made Scientific American's top ten list for Guiding Science for Humanity, have announced they have begun production of oil from photosynthetic algae at their Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility.

One of North America's leaders in sustainable, organic agriculture, Stahlbush Island Farms has broken new ground with its on-site biogas plant. Producing its first electricity this past June, this past week the plant went fully operational.