Stories tagged "biofuels" - Page 10

"At present most biofuels have a detrimental impact on the environment overall"

Plans to promote "green" petrol and diesel made from crops will do the planet more harm than good and should be scrapped, a committee of MPs have said.

With an increasing population, the earnest debate over the merit of biofuels and wind farms misses the point -- it is the technologies we fear that will be our salvation.

The supermarket chain Safeway announced this week in Denver that it is converting its entire truck fleet to the cleaner burning fuel Biodiesel.The company is switching over its entire nationwide fleet to B20, a biodiesel blend of 20 percent biodiesel and

Experts say that algae could generate 30 times more energy per acre of land than corn and other biofuels, and grow at a much faster rate.

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The article doesn't say it, but the implication is there, algae-based biofuel may be used in the flight test.

U.S. military and commercial aviators are searching for domestically sourced, cost-effective and clean alternatives to petroleum-derived jet fuel.

The quest by executives and venture capitalists to build a next-generation biofuels industry has made strides this year as oil reached $100 a barrel and the world's largest energy consumer laid down ambitious new mandates for alternative fuels.

Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass emits up to 94% less carbon dioxide than petrol, a US study finds.