looking for a non-food feedstock to produce fuel for jets and automobiles. In the Pacific Northwest, forest biofuel has been touted as a potential job creator,
however, the biomass could still be better than burning fossil fuels. In the study, bioenergy production did result in fewer emissions in one scenario:
developing efficient and economically competitive ways to refine cellulose into fuel remains high on the industry s to-do list.
Lufthansa plans to use the fuel for 6 months on 8 daily trips between the two cities, for a total of 1200 flights.
because they do not emit CO2 the way conventional hydrocarbon jet fuels ââ oetypically kerosene-do.
Scientific studies consistently show that most of the currently used biofuels are worse for the climate than fossil fuels, a Foe position paper states.
and other NGOS found that EU road biofuels are between 81%and 167%worse for the climate than the equivalent fossil fuels,
Fuel producer Honeywell UOP says that camelina grows on fallow wheat fields and improves yields in the fields subsequent wheat-growing years.
and was a former blood diamond company that regrouped as an African green fuel operation, according to the UK's The Telegraph.
While most of us have thought at least about curtailing the fuel use of cars, we ignore global warming consequences
assuming electric utilities continue to use the same mix of fossil fuel. Emissions would stand at 43.6 million tons of greenhouse gases,
Some of the less conventional fuels used right now...take natural gas. In New york and Pennsylvania, we're sitting on one of the greatest shale gas reserves in the world.
but also the great demand in Asia that still fuels the international trade after it was outlawed in 1989.
Indianapolis Fruit was able to reduce fuel costs by an average of 8 percent to 9 percent per vehicle,
it relies on increasingly-depleted fossil fuels, it uses energy and increases greenhouse gas emissions. If a big company like Conagra were to make the switch,
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the road Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae
Green initiatives highlighted at international flower showthe theme of this year's  Philadelphia International Flower Show,
Ground zero in the energy-water nexusthe oil and gas producing countries of the Middle east may be sitting pretty in fossil fuels,
since it burns more than 1 million barrels a day of crude oil just to desalinate water.
Indeed, energy in general is too cheap in Abu dhabi at about $1. 80 for a gallon of gasoline
when its fossil fuel resources are depleted sharply and its groundwater is gone. In time after a long process of cultural change, even the 16 percent of the UAE's crude oil production that is consumed internally--nearly half a million barrels per day--might be reduced as more electric vehicles,
such as the ones being used in Masdar City, take to the roads. It might not take much more than Sheikh Mohammed letting his people see him rolling around downtown in a snazzy,
saying that it had not been able to offset the rising cost of jet fuel. Australia's Qantas Airways reported last month that high fuel costs had halved its profit in the first half of 2011
and that it would cut 500 jobs in a bid to save the company. Airasia X announced this week that it is suspending service to New zealand due to unprofitability,
Also this week, Israel's El al airlines announced higher fuel surcharges, eliminated its service to Brazil
when it ran out of money to pay for fuel, stranding its customers without offering them alternative arrangements.
Unfortunately, there is little that the airlines can do to accommodate an era of permanently higher fuel prices, other than raising their own prices accordingly.
There's no way that the trucking industry can absorb fuel costs it can't happen, trucking company owner Jim Ganduglia told ABC News. Where he operates in Fresno, California,
So there's a fuel surcharge and without that fuel surcharge we'd all be out of business.
Nowhere is the cost of trucking more evident to consumers than at the grocery store. Fresh produce and other perishables must be shipped promptly no matter
Operators of small fleets, like Phoenix-based HVAC repair shop George Brazil Services, try to maximize their fuel efficiency by switching to more efficient vehicles
000 on gasoline every 10 days, said owner Jim Probst. Larger fleet operators are turning to logistics services to optimize their fleet activities,
Optimizing the behavior of drivers is another fuel-reduction strategy advocated by companies like Dubai-based Dynamic Technical Training.
they have shown that fleet operators of 100 vehicles can save $31, 500 annually in fuel costs.
and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets, the main recourse is to simply keep raising their fuel surcharges.
One year ago, the surcharge was 5. 5 percent. Now it's 7. 5 percent,
Farmers Farmers are being forced to find ways to conserve fuel as well. Although most consumers do not realize it,
an estimated 7 to 10 calories of fossil fuel are embedded in every calorie of food that arrives on American tables,
but they are forced often to absorb fuel price increases because they can't pass them along to consumers.
in order to save on fuel. We'll think of ways, maybe make less passes through the field with the tractor than we normally would have.
This highlights a somewhat counterintuitive result of rising fuel prices. While it's true that organic farmers generally use less fuel than conventional farmers,
Logistics managers are increasingly considering it as a way to maintain profitability in the face of rising fuel costs.
Next-generation biofuels are viewed often as a transportation fuel panacea. A magic elixir that will wean the U s. off of foreign oil without sending the economy into the dark ages.
Advocates have promised next-gen biofuels will reduce greenhouse emissions and end the use of food crops for fuel.
said it's unlikely the U s. will meet specific biofuel mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard by 2022
the consumption volume of renewable fuels hit 36 billion gallons. Â Of that, 15 billion gallons must be conventional biofuels--aka corn-based ethanol
Not a single commercially viable biorefinery exists for converting cellulosic biomass to fuel, the NRC said.
and converting it into fermentable sugars so it can be refined into fuel is too expensive to be commercially viable.
In other words, it can t compete against corn-based ethanol prices or gasoline, for that matter. It's why so much research centers on finding a technological breakthrough that will make biofuels cheaper to make.
The NRC notes other difficulties with cellulosic biofuels including its reliance on subsidies to compete with fossil fuels
and increasing the conversion yield from biomass to fuels--something that's already happening, albeit more at a more limited scale than is perhaps necessary.
One of the goals I had was to get the house off heating fuel (it was an old cast iron steam system with an oil burner,
The state of Maine is more dependent on home heating fuel than any other state. More than 85 percent of homes are heated with oil.
So part of our struggle is to get ourselves off fuel, and that s part of the $11 million bond:
Biochar can be burned just like regular charcoal. In a place like Africa, that's a big deal.
when it's converted to charcoal we can sequester that carbon in the ground. We convert it into a form that will never decompose back into CO2.
you'll see that the charcoal is still intact in the ground and the soil is black.
along with liquid fuel. We're also producing a very low-cost product for the developing world.
Talk about the liquid fuel that can be produced by the device for the developing world. It's called bio-oil.
It's a low-grade crude oil substitute. We can upgrade it to a point where it can run a diesel generator.
Charcoal is big business in Africa. Up to 80 percent of people rely on it as a fuel source.
The price of charcoal is highly volatile. It can be anywhere from 11 cents a kilo to 30 cents a kilo.
We price the biochar according to what the going rate is for charcoal in a village.
That ensures that people can afford it and can use it for whatever purpose they need.
Hydrogen fuel made from a tiny forest of nanotreeselectrical engineers at the University of California-San diego have built a forest of nanowire trees that use solar energy to turn water into  hydrogen  fuel.
Hydrogen fuel is considered a clean fuel because it doesn't generate carbon emissions. However, the conventional method of producing hydrogen gas relies on energy from fossil fuels to separate the atoms from other molecules like water.
Deli Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San diego Jacobs School of engineering
and his team sought out a way to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation.
but to collect carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into a hydrocarbon fuel. Photo:
and kerosene through Fair Priced Shops under a scheme called the Public Distribution System (PDS).
Khera advocates reducing other subsidies like those on fuel (in 2011-2012 to the tune of 1. 4 trillion rupees or $27. 7 billion),
which is nearly 25 times the amount of carbon is released annually to the atmosphere from combined fossil fuel burning and land use changes.
Super limousine is the world's fastest Superbus hopes to turbocharge mass transit Supertruck big rig design doubles fuel efficiency More game-changing car tech:
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more carbon dioxide than crude oil, and approximate the emissions of the much-maligned oil mined from tar sands.
And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.
The EU's default value for measuring carbon efficiency for oil from tar sands is 107g CO2 equivalent per megajoule of fuel (CO2/mj.
Meanwhile, crude oil's efficiency value is 87. 5g CO2/mj. Here are the data (g CO2/mj) from the EU documents,
36g Sugar beet â oe 34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants) â oe 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using) â oe 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using) â
but they are much less expensive to feed than a power mower is to fuel. Won't some people take issue with farm animals trampling all over their dearly departed?
The truck uses 30 percent to 50 percent less fuel than the alternative. On 25 of its larger semi delivery trucks, Oakhurst will install side panels that are supposed to improve aerodynamics and,
therefore, fuel efficiency. The dairy figures that it will save between 6 percent and 8 percent in fuel costs based on current driving habits (an average of 30,000 miles annually per truck.
The retrofit should be completed by the end of 2010. The dairy figures it will cut about 7. 6 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions annually through the retrofit.
bamboo has provided biomass fuel at power plants in the Philippines. Don't worry graphene. As far as I know,
Why it matters The federal government has mandated that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into transportation fuel by 2022.
and converting it into fermentable sugars so it can be refined into fuel is too expensive to be commercially viable.
In other words, it can't compete against corn-based ethanol prices or gasoline, for that matter. Mushroom power Enter the heat-loving fungi.
Another mandate missed (and by a lot) Another year, another missed renewable fuel production mandate. The Environmental protection agency released this week its 2012 targets for renewable fuels
and once again next-generation biofuels will fall far short of the production volume mandated by Congress.
Meanwhile,  less than one-tenth of 1 percent of renewable fuels produced next year will come  from cellulosic ethanol-- the transportation fuel panacea expected to wean the U s. off of foreign oil
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and end the use of food crops like corn for fuel.
-and corn-based ethanol to meet the national mandate for renewable fuels in 2012. Unfortunately, this annual ritual of missing mandated production targets is likely to continue.
A National Resource Council report released in October said it's unlikely the U s. will meet specific biofuel mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard by 2022
Not a single commercially viable biorefinery exists for converting cellulosic biomass to fuel, the NRC said.
The renewable fuel standard requires refiners to either purchase cellulosic ethanol or buy waivers. In other words, refiners have to spend money to meet mandates that can't be met.
E coli bacteria that eats switchgrass to make fuel How do you solve a problem like next-gen biofuels?
000 second prize for a toilet that produces biological charcoal, minerals and clean water. The University of Toronto won the third-place prize of $40
RTI International received a $1. 3 million grant to fund the development of a self-contained toulet system disinfects liquid waste and turns solid waste into fuel or electricity through a biomass energy
and produce biological charcoal that be used as a replacement for wood charcoal or chemical fertilizers.
and feedstock costs enough to make their product competitive with corn-based ethanol and ultimately fossil fuels.
wheat straw, switchgrass and other nonfood crops--into sugar which can then be fermented into fuels, feed and chemicals.
  This efficiency improvement is enough to bring the cost of cellulosic ethanol in line with gasoline and corn-based ethanol.
partner with DSM Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Next-gen biofuels in 2012:
Paris cultural center welcomes lawn-mowing sheepparis The sounds of gasoline-powered lawn mowers could soon be replaced entirely by the gentle bleating of hungry farm animals in The french capital.
Not a single commercially viable biorefinery exists for converting cellulosic biomass to fuel, according to the National Resource Council.
Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fed-backed Range Fuels sells plant for pennies on the dollar Chemical giant BASF invests in biomass-to-sugar startup Next-gen biofuels in 2012:
which has helped fuel our exploding population and our overwhelming population is now causing even more problems.
These are things we should be doing right away to buy us some time to solve the harder problem of how to stop burning fossil fuels.
Eighty percent or more of our energy is still coming from fossil fuels. Eventually we need to go to zero or negative with our CO2 emissions.
there are still parts of the world where wood is the primary fuel source. We need to get started on our transition from fossil fuel burning
so that we can complete the transition in time to save human civilization. That is if we want the Anthropocene to be more than a blip in the geologic record.
even if we burn all the fossil fuels, the planet as a rock will survive and so will a lot of the life on the planet,
They are trying to get us off fossil fuels. SP: Are they as â Å out there â Â as their brother, DARPA,
so they do a better job of turning sunlight into fuels than current plants do.
by taking sunlight and somehow turning it into a fuel that you can burn. We are going to need every little bit of innovation to displace the burning of fossil fuels.
SP: What does success look like to you? DB: Success has three parts. One is a resilient and robust human civilization.
The fuel is cheap and inexhaustible. Green nuclear power can solve the global crises of air pollution deaths and climate change.
 Hargraves is particularly keen on a reactor that uses liquid thorium fuel instead of solid uranium,
Thorium trumps all fuels as energy sourcenovel reactors atop MIT energy contest finalistsook who's talking:
Cobalt is trying to replace some of the petroleum and petrochemical materials in anything from gasoline to plastics to paint.
we could produce over two billion gallons of biobutanol--enough to blend into all the gasoline used in Colorado for six years.
Cobalt will test how well the gasoline-butanol mix will run in automobile engines. CSU's Ken Reardon, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering:
As a corporation, Sappi Fine Paper established a goal to reduce its emissions from fossil fuels by 40 percent between 2008 and 2013 against a 2007 baseline measurement.
and the produce does need not to be shipped long distances, conserving precious fossil fuels. Farmedhere employs local workers to reduce transport requirements.
That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
Freitas points out that the isotope gadolinium-148 could provide much of the fuel the body needs.
The end result will be sold E85 at the pump for about a dollar cheaper per gallon than gasoline, according to the company.
Corn-based ethanol costs $1. 40 a gallon to produce, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
May Wu, an environmental scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, says Coskata's ethanol produces 84 percent less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel even after accounting for the energy needed to produce
"Still, consumers will need some way of getting that fuel into their vehicle. Less than 1 percent of the nation's 170,000 gas stations sell E85, said Mike Omotoso, senior manager of the global power train group at J. D. Power & Associates."
"People aren't going to go to some remote location for fuel.""But with production set to ramp up quickly to meet the 36 billion gallon mandate,
and because low-income and poor families are faced with higher fuel and housing costs, they are still unable to buy sufficient food
The fuel of the futureone has to ask oewhat the hell were they thinking? Clearly, instead of thinking, the EU political elites were seduced by Greenpeace, FOE and similar activists.
By far the largest so-called renewable fuel used in Europe is wood. In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts for about half of Europe renewable-energy consumption.
38%of non-fossil fuel consumption comes from the stuff. After years in which European governments have boasted about their high-tech
low-carbon energy revolution, the main beneficiary seems to be favoured the fuel of preindustrial societies.
they increase carbon emissions compared with coal (the dirtiest fuel) by 79%over 20 years and 49%over 40 years;
synthetic fuels, biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, etc. â agriculture and food production: engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation:
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