The term “biofuels” actually encompasses a host of largely unrelated technologies. So far, it has largely meant ethanol, generated by fermenting the sugars found in crops, while research is attempting ...

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Though it took hundreds of thousands of years for fossil fuels to form naturally, chemical engineers at the University of Michigan did it in a minute. By "pressure cooking" green microalgae in ...

What: Shares of refiner Tesoro (TSO +0.00%) declined 16.7% in January as lower refining margins started to sink in. This was in the face of Tesoro's recent announcement that it plans to work with ...

A California company and a Department of Energy research lab have announced that they're teaming up to make oil out of algae — a potential fuel source that would be low on greenhouse gas emissions ...

PORT-CARTIER, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - July 13, 2016) - David Boulard, Executive Vice President of Ensyn Corporation (Ensyn Corporation together with its affiliates, "Ensyn"), is pleased to announce ...

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Air travel may soon take a more sustainable turn, thanks to a new method that converts discarded food into jet fuel. This is the promise of the process developed by researchers at the University of ...

That slippery green scum beneath the family cabin dock could soon help fuel your car. That, at least, is the hope of federal, state and local government officials, as well as energy experts who ...

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. A large-scale ...

Kior this month will begin shipping biofuel from its first “commercial-scale” facility, a significant step for the long-delayed advanced biofuels industry. The Pasadena, Texas-based company’s CEO Fred ...

A team of chemical engineers have developed a new kind of jet mixer for creating biomass from algae that extracts the lipids from the watery plants with much less energy than the older extraction ...