Chemical engineers have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. The green technology benefits from and adds ...

Topping up at the petrol pump is about to take an intriguing twist as cars are set to be fuelled with a new super bio-fuel, made from whisky by-products. Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An Autopia reader (who hails from my birthplace of Philadelphia) emailed us inquiring about the alternative fuel butanol. I posted an item on it last year, but since then BP has joined the ranks of ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IndexBox's recent report on the global butanol market highlights the following key points. The global butanol market is expected to rise from $11.6B in 2022 ...

Watch out, petroleum. This British biotech company is fueling the comeback of biobutanol-- something last produced during World War II. This is the famous Spitfire that defended the skies over Great ...

A group of Chinese scientists have recently developed a new synthetic consortium for efficient pentose-hexose co-utilization that could improve bio-manufacturing. Converting biomass into valuable ...

The impression I came away with after reading about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) efforts to convert biomass to ethanol is that James McMillan's "vision" is not keen enough to ...

Butanol is a renewable biofuel that is set to debut at US pumps next year, and hopes to challenge ethanol’s dominance of the $26 billion market. Just as with ethanol it can be produced from corn or ...

Until we get solar cars, the sun won’t be powering our trips to the store. Unless this crazy project that uses tiny bugs to convert that solar power to a fuel you can put in your gas tank pans out.