LINCOLN - Ethanol made from switch grass can provide five times more energy than is consumed in the growing and refining processes, according to five years of research at the University of ...

Biofuels experts discuss corn and cellulosic ethanol, and sustainable aviation fuels. We use a lot of biofuels in the US -- corn ethanol now makes up 10% of every gallon of gasoline. Ethanol made from ...

Gold is helping scientists turn plant-based ethanol into valuable industrial chemicals by keeping a delicate reaction under control. When ethanol reacts too strongly with oxygen, it burns into carbon ...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - The U.S. ethanol industry is keeping its foot on the gas pedal at production plants, and if the trend continues it could defy a government forecast that the industry ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The great promise of a car fuel made from cheap, clean-burning prairie grass or wood chips -- and not from expensive corn that feeds the world -- is more mirage than reality.