Biofuels

Companies and university researchers are taking us closer toward providing a domestic supply of biofuel from cellulosic crops. Some experts are testing crops for their potential to produce biofuel and be feed as forages.

Apr. 24, 2012

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Alfalfa, Biofuels Focus Of California Field Day

University of California (UC) Extension will hold an Alfalfa and Biofuels Field Day on May 9 at its Agronomy Field Headquarters in Davis. The event will run from 12:45 to 3 p.m....More
Apr. 9, 2012

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Optimistic About Cellulosic Ethanol

Custom forage harvesters will soon gain a number of new clients if Sam Jackson’s expectations for cellulosic ethanol production are on target. He’s vice president for feedstock development and supply at Genera Energy, Vonore, TN, where a 250,000-gallon cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant has been operating for two years...More
Mar. 25, 2012

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Seed-Planted Miscanthus To Be Tested For Biofuel Potential

A miscanthus variety that can be planted as seed rather than as a rhizome will be grown and tested as a possible biomass crop in an agreement between BP Biofuels and Mendel Biotechnology Inc., Hayward, CA....More
Mar. 14, 2012

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Giant Miscanthus Variety Becomes Gasoline

A California-based company recently announced that it has created gasoline using a giant miscanthus variety developed at Mississippi State University (MSU)....More
Feb. 24, 2012

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New Enzyme Raises Cellulosic Ethanol Hopes

A new enzyme could make the cost of cellulosic ethanol production competitive with that of corn ethanol and gasoline, according to its manufacturer....More
Feb. 21, 2012

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Energy From Biomass Crops Is Iowa Meeting Topic

Perennial grasses, such as miscanthus, will be studied at the March 8 Biomass Crop Production Workshop, to be held at Southwestern Community College in Creston, IA....More
Jan. 24, 2012

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Cellulosic Ethanol Will Be Reality, RFA Says

Recent reports have pointed out the current shortfall in cellulosic biofuel production concerning targets established by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Those reports, however, miscast the reasons for delay and the state of the advanced ethanol industry, according to a press release by Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)....More
Jan. 24, 2012

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Poet Forms New Joint Venture

Poet, LLC, has formed a joint venture to commercially demonstrate and license cellulosic bio-ethanol with Royal DSM, a global science-based company. Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC, is set to start production sometime in the second half of 2013 to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn crop residue using enzymatic hydrolysis, followed by fermentation....More
Jan. 10, 2012

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A Southern Cellulosic Biofuel Crop

Giant King Grass yields about 44 tons of dry matter per acre from two to three cuttings per year for 10 years....More
Jan. 10, 2012

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Giant Biofuel Potential

Heat, power – and cellulosic ethanol – all are potential uses of giant miscanthus, say researchers....More