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Boom or Bust for Biofuels Research?
A recent special section of Science is devoted to the discussion of alternative energy and its technical and economic challenges (content requires subscription or payment). Robert Service [1] reports...
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Fruit and nuts for both food and fuel
The biofuel that you put in your car could one day be, quite literally, peachy. A recent survey published in Biotechnology for Biofuels presents interesting findings on the feedstock potential of...
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Why grass (and weeds) may be greener
An interesting headline of No-Kill Farming: The rise of low-cost low-carbon biofuels through continuous harvest, took the lead in Biofuels Digest earlier this month. In an essay, Jim Lane reviewed the...
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EU blow to biodiesel
An EU policy U-turn was announced earlier this month, with draft legislation to impose limits across Europe on land-use for fuel crop production. Climate change Comissioner, Connie Hedegaard, proposes...
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Do you feel demonised?
The formal EU proposal and 5% cap on land use for biofuel production was announced this week – closely followed by a backlash from the biofuels industry and environmental groups alike....
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A sorghum solution to meeting renewable fuel targets
This post was originally featured on BioMed Central’s magazine Biome. Grasses belonging to the genus Sorghum are grown on a large scale in the United States, mainly as animal feed. However, in light of...
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