Plastic-derived biofuels, proposed as part of the Biden Administration’s response to the global climate issue, appear to give both a solution to petroleum’s greenhouse gas emissions and a strategy to address the massive plastic trash problem. Surprise! The technique of producing “biofuels” from plastic garbage — a key component ofContinue Reading
Government incentives helped kickstart a biofuel boom in the United States around 15 years ago. Every year, ethanol plants require around 130 million metric tonnes of maize. It accounts for around one-third of the overall maize yield in the country, and cultivating that grain takes more than 100,000 square kilometersContinue Reading
The European Parliament cleared the path for the use of green fuels in planes in a close vote. They have prohibited the use of contentious biofuel feedstocks, such as intermediate crops and palm oil by-products (PFADs), under Europe’s aviation green fuel mandate (ReFuelEU). Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) should have noContinue Reading
Biofuels, which are generated from plant oils, agricultural waste, or wood, can be used to power vehicles and buses. Burning them merely returns the carbon that the plants collected while growing to the environment. So transitioning from fossil fuels to biodiesel and bioalcohol is now being promoted as a climate-friendlyContinue Reading
Zero-emission aviation on a large scale is still years away. That is why aviation stakeholders are so enthusiastic about biofuel. Lignin is the tough component of plants that gives them their toughness. Lignin is similarly difficult to convert into biofuel and other bio-based chemical products. However, a team of researchersContinue Reading
The space startup bluShift Aerospace successfully launched a low-flying rocket on Sunday using a kind of fuel that the company says can be grown on a farm. The Brunswick-based startup launched its first rocket prototype, called Stardust 1.0, despite freezing temperatures and two false starts. Stardust 1.0 is a smallContinue Reading
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $2.5 million technical assistance (TA) to support advanced (second-generation) biofuel development in India. Second-generation biofuels can be produced from non-edible sources like agricultural residue, municipal solid waste, and used cooking oil. They can be used as bioethanol, biogas, and biodiesel for energy,Continue Reading
The latest development in the world of Biofuel involves cyanobacteria, aka blue-green algae, an organism that has been around for more than 3.5 billion years and may in fact! surprise you then to know that they are still around; they are one of the largest and most important groups ofContinue Reading
