In Virginia, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave energy and water infrastructure a D+ grade for for 2013. “More than five million miles of pipeline exist in the U.S. alone, and worldwide, countries annually install approximately 500,000 miles of pipeline with a market value of more than $50 billion,” said Sunil Sinha, associate professor […]
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its draft Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans for public review and comment. In support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and Executive Order on Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change announced today, the Implementation Plans provide detailed information about the actions EPA plans […]
In Taiwan, Prof. (Emeritus) Aharon Gedanken from the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, who is currently a visiting chair professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, has developed a microwave-based process that transforms waste cooking oils into biodiesel in 10 seconds. The technology underlying the study is now in the process […]
An RFS Calculator Insert your proposed gallons for each fuel and click submit, and it will calculate how many RINs you will generate towards Renewable Fuel Standard obligations. You can post your numbers in millions or billions of gallons (e.g. 14.4 for 14.4 billion). Your results will be shown on the next page. Ethanol gallons: […]
In Denmark, a team of researchers from the University of Southern Denmark along with researchers from Brazil have succeeded in mapping proteins of the bean, and thus it may now be possible to alter the bean’s structure in order to get even more out of the bean than today. The researcher’s work however shows that […]
In Germany, a team of researchers led by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change says place-specific impacts of biofuel production must be taken into account. They argue that place-specific production models and land tenure regimes mediate livelihood outcomes, which are also in turn affected by global and regional markets and their […]
In Missouri, the University of Missouri at Kansas City has scored a grant valued at $1.2 million from JBEI to study the potential to produce biofuel from a particular mold including gene sequencing. The species of mold to be studied is seen as a model for how microbes can break down complex molecules. The grant […]
In Illinois, the Argonne National Laboratory is highlighting a new GREET fuel cycle model release (GREET1 2013) uploaded to the GREET web site. This release includes the following updates: New marine fuel pathways and commercial vessel operations: New sorghum ethanol pathways; New Tallow pathway; Electric power sector technology shares, efficiencies and emission factors by technology […]
In Norway, until now, it has taken weeks to make biofuel from trees. This slow pace has been a bottleneck for the industry. Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have now shortened the process to a few hours. The biggest challenge in making biofuel from wood to date has been that it […]
In New York state, scientists at the DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified the key genes required for oil production and accumulation in plant leaves and other vegetative plant tissues. Enhancing expression of these genes resulted in vastly increased oil content in leaves, the most abundant sources of plant biomass—a finding that could have important […]
