According to this article in Renewable Energy World, “Chevron Corp.’s attempts to turn plants into alternative fuels for profitable, large-scale production have failed.” The author goes on to note: The second-largest U.S. oil company by market value spent “significant sums” …
Category: Biofuels
Could a Variety of Jatropha Play an Important Role in Biofuels?
Those of you keeping track of the evolution of biofuels may be interested in this piece on a hybrid variety of jatropha. Personally, I view the whole biofuels enterprise as a snooze. We’re trying to replace the source of the …
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Greenwashing: I Can’t Define It, But I Know It When I See It
Here’s a post that won’t take much work; I just copied and pasted it from a laughable press release a reader sent me. ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 29 (UPI) — Five trains in operation at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., are running …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: Biofuels Can Provide the Same Amount of Energy as Crude Oil
Biofuels have been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, due to rising oil prices and increased concern over the effects that fossil fuels have on the environment, but they are still far from being a true and viable …
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From Guest Blogger Deepi: How Biomass Waste Became The New Coal
Biomass briquette or white coal is a biofuel made from biomass waste materials with the help of biomass briquetting machine. Nowadays, through this machinery biomass waste converts into new coal which is known as white coal. Biomass briquetting is the …
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Alternative Clean Transportation Expo — Biofuels from Algae
Yesterday, I attended the Alternative Clean Transportation Expo, in Long Beach, California. The show was dominated not by electric transportation (though EVs did enjoy a certain representation) but by natural gas. There was also some representation of biofuels, in particular, …
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The Impact of Biofuels
One of the entrepreneurs whose project is included on our list of the clean energy business investment opportunities just sent me this article from Time Magazine on biofuels. The author’s point, in brief, is that we tend to underestimate the damage …
From Guest Blogger Deepi Makwana: Biomass Briquettes – Substitute To Fossil Fuels
Biomass briquettes are solid biofuel made from agriculture waste or bio waste under high mechanical pressure with the help of biomass briquetting press machine. It is the process of recycling bio waste material and turn into useful solid biofuel without …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan Perch: Hyundai to Unveil a New Fuel-cell Powered Vehicle
Hyundai has been developing alternative-fuel vehicles for a long time, and has been offering several electric and hybrid models for a while now, which have made them one of the leaders in green vehicles. In recent years, they have been …
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From Guest Blogger Paula Sheamus: Biofuels vs Food Problem
The fuel versus food debate has been continuing for years. While some people aim to produce biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, others are concerned about our irresponsible actions and the fact that because of them our planet might …
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