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Poplar Science: Producing More Biomass from Genetically Beefed-Up Trees

Poplar Trees These guys look a bit skinny, but researchers in Manchester think they can thicken them up by manipulating two key growth genes. John WinfieldWhile an all-biofuel economy is a nice notion,...

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Breakthrough Danish Enzymes to Lower Biofuel Price Point To Petroleum Levels

How A Bill Becomes A Lawvia Green Tech MediaProducing a biofuel cheap enough to compete at the pump with oil has remained as elusive as a ghost on the walls of Elsinore castle. But this week, two...

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Space Station Experiment Tests How Biofuel Crop Grows in Zero G

Space Biofuel Can these jatropha curcas plant cells thrive in microgravity? Dr. Wagner A Vendrame, University of Florida at HomesteadCan space farms provide biofuels for a greener Earth? Future...

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This Car Runs on Coffee, in the Name of Science

Coffee-powered Car I'll see your electric vehicle and raise you in fuel inefficiency! Bang Goes the Theory/Daily MailReaders feeling jittery on their second or third cuppa might giggle at the concept...

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This Tiny Crustacean Menace Could Fuel the World

Gribblesvia BBCThey don't exactly look like the saviors of our energy economy, but that's exactly what some researchers think they could be. Gribbles -- tiny crustacean pests with a knack for digesting...

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Modified Secreting Cyanobacteria Are Like Tiny Biofuel Factories

Photosynthetic CyanobacteriaBiodesign Institute, Arizona State UniversityWe thought it was cool when a team of Arizona State researchers engineered genetic bombs that blow biofuel-producing...

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Get on the Beef Train: Amtrak Unveils First Biodiesel Commuter Train, Powered...

Beef Biofuel for Trains I don't know why, but I could go for a burger right about now Bill Acord/AmtrackThe so-called green train is slated to run as a one-year experiment. Just how viable is it?...

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To Test New Tech, Researchers Churn an 800-Pound Butter Sculpture into Biodiesel

Butter Sculpture This is not the butter sculpture of Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell. Matthew Beckler via FlickrIn a patriotic dairy-to-diesel demonstration project proving the breadth of fatty...

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Scottish Scientists Turn Whisky Into Biofuel

Scotchmorberg via FlickrFile this under news you can raise a glass to: Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have figured out how to turn the leftovers from one of Scotland's biggest exports into...

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New Plan Could Turn Dirty Grease and Dairy Into Biofuel

Butter Sculpture This is not the butter sculpture of Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell. Matthew Beckler via FlickrWhat do you do with an 800-pound butter sculpture of Benjamin Franklin that's starting...

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ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better Biofuel Crops, Cutting Costs in...

Rapeseed, Grown for Biofuel ProductionMark Walton via WikimediaThe Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy) has just doled out its fourth round of funding, and $30...

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Alligator Fat Could Fill Your Gas Tank and Fuel Renewable Resource Investment...

Alligator From Merchant's Millpond State Park, N.C. Ryan Somma via FlickrTastes like chicken, runs like diesel Every year, about 15 million pounds of alligator fat is dumped into landfills as a...

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Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation

Magnetic Algae The wild algae on the left settles to the bottom of the test tube. The magnetic algae on the right sticks to the wall thanks to the magnet. Los Alamos National Laboratory via...

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Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does

Cyanobacteria Synechococcus PCC 7002, a type of cyanobacteria. Wikimedia CommonsScientists have been trying for a while now to recreate the process of photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to spark...

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Scientists Teach Bacteria To Eat Electricity

M. ferrooxydansClara S Chan, via Wikimedia CommonsIn a new study, iron-oxidizing microbes give fresh meaning to the phrase "living off the grid," and provide fresh hope as a potential biofuel....

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Poplar Science: Producing More Biomass from Genetically Beefed-Up Trees

Poplar Trees These guys look a bit skinny, but researchers in Manchester think they can thicken them up by manipulating two key growth genes. John Winfield While an all-biofuel economy is a nice...

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Breakthrough Danish Enzymes to Lower Biofuel Price Point To Petroleum Levels

How A Bill Becomes A Law via Green Tech MediaProducing a biofuel cheap enough to compete at the pump with oil has remained as elusive as a ghost on the walls of Elsinore castle. But this week, two...

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Space Station Experiment Tests How Biofuel Crop Grows in Zero G

Space Biofuel Can these jatropha curcas plant cells thrive in microgravity? Dr. Wagner A Vendrame, University of Florida at Homestead Future biofuels from space could be go for launch, if a space...

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This Car Runs on Coffee, in the Name of Science

Coffee-powered Car I'll see your electric vehicle and raise you in fuel inefficiency! Bang Goes the Theory/Daily Mail Readers feeling jittery on their second or third cuppa might giggle at the concept...

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This Tiny Crustacean Menace Could Fuel the World

Gribbles via BBCThey don't exactly look like the saviors of our energy economy, but that's exactly what some researchers think they could be. Gribbles -- tiny crustacean pests with a knack for...

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