An excellent video describing the development of next generation biofuels in the United States. Next generation biofuels aim for greater efficiency than ethanol while avoiding the food supply issues associated with first generation biofuels.
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/819
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Posted 26 April 2008
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Researchers are developing an algae which could be used for biodiesel and requires much less area to grow than alternatives such as canola.
WA scientist develops potential fossil fuel alternative – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Posted 15 December 2007
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Courtesy : National Geographic
Tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day help cure the world’s energy woes, according to scientists.
The researchers are trying to understand how bacteria that help termites digest wood and other plants release the hydrogen that’s trapped in the material.
“We don’t understand the full details of how the process occurs,” said [...]
Below is a link to Thursday’s Guardian of an article warning that Indonesia’s rush to cultivate palm oil as a fuel substitute could release billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in one go. This is because deep peat bogs that contain massive amounts of carbon would need to be cleared to make way [...]
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Posted 09 November 2007
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With 65% of its energy already coming from renewables, New Zealand is in a much better starting position than Australia. That said they are now planning an agressive strategy to cut their dependance on fossil fuels even more.
Biofuels push to make more Kiwis fly – World – theage.com.au
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Posted 12 October 2007
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The NSW government is planning to set a 2% target for ethanol based fuel supplies. Personally I’m still not 100% convinced of the benefits of widespread adoption of biofuels as a gasoline replacement. I’d be interested to hear from others.
More ethanol fuel to be sold in NSW
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Posted 01 October 2007
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Ron Oxburgh, chairman of D1 Oils in the UK, discusses the change in attitudes to biofuels. He says the way forward for biofuel production is to decouple them from the production of food crops. Jatropha curcas is a tree with fruits which produce good diesel oil. It yields fully after 5 years, produces for 50 [...]
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Posted 16 September 2007
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Fungus Makes Biodiesel Indian Researcher’s Finding
Ravichandra Potumarthi, a researcher in India, has demonstrated and presented his findings at a conference (the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) that using the enzyme lipase as the catalyst he can convert vegetable oils into biodiesel. The trouble, of course, with that, conceptually, is that lipase is a [...]
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Posted 11 September 2007
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