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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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International Year of Sustainable Energy for all
Today is the first day of the World Future Energy summit, marking the start of the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for all. The theme of the summit is innovation and issues to be discussed...
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It’s all about the bottom line
Along with the technical revolution in energy production comes a growing body of research into "techno-economics". Two articles just published in Biotechnology for Biofuels this month present economic...
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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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Seeding the next generation of fuel crops
Image credit: Matt Lavin For biofuels to become more sustainable, lignocellulosic biomass from trees, grasses and plant stems is an appealing alternative to resource-heavy energy crops such as canola...
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Algal biofuels? Think bigger
The production of biodiesel from single-celled microalgae has been receiving renewed research attention, as evidenced by a growth spurt in publications on microalgal biofuel this year. Meanwhile,...
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Special issue on pretreatment and fractionation of biomass for...
Biotechnology for Biofuels is pleased to announce a special issue from the NSERC Bioconversion Network – a collaboration of academic and industry leaders, aimed at developing bio-based chemical and...
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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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Alcohol fuels enabling sustainable development
Biotechnology for Biofuels is pleased to announce a thematic series from the 20th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF 2013), held from 25 to 27 March 2013 at Stellenbosch, South Africa....
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