The Energy Department announced up to $10 million in funding to advance the production of advanced biofuels, substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks, and bioproducts made from renewable, non-food-based biomass, such as agricultural residues and woody biomass.
London-based design practice, Giles Miller Studio, made an archway of 20,000 angled wooden pixels for a design conference entryway this week in London.
Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a 'super strain' of yeast that can efficiently ferment ethanol from pretreated pine.
Their research could help biofuels replace gas as fuel and would use forestry residue and waste.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today announced the next step in the creation of a public-private partnership to develop drop-in advanced biofuels.
A new biofuels study claims that projects producing drop-in fuels have superior potential for investors, whereas wood-based biofuels will fail to contribute substantively to EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard targets in 2011 or 2022.
Gov. Haley Barbour joined executives from KiOR and state and local officials today for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of KiOR's first commercial biofuel production facility in Columbus.