DOE Explains...Biofuels

The role of biofuels for sustainable MicrogridsF: A path towards ...

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has stated that biofuels burn cleaner than fossil fuels, produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions ...

DOE Career Award to help scientists use giraffe dung to make biofuels

People use enzymes to create fuels from plants, fungi to produce antimalarial drugs, and E. coli bacteria to generate life-saving insulin.

New biofuel production system powered by a community of algae ...

MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers ...

Biofuel: Definition, types, pros and cons - Live Science

It currently takes more ethanol than gasoline to produce the same amount of energy, for instance. Production is expensive, and several parts of ...

What are Biofuels? - Bioenergy

A biofuel is any liquid fuel derived from biological material such as trees, agricultural wastes, crops, or grass.

UPM Biofuels – Easy, sustainable alternative to fossils fuels

It has minimal risk of causing indirect emissions or land use change, does not compete with the food production chain, and is a ready-to-use, ...

Investigation of Biofuel as a Potential Renewable Energy Source

An accelerating global energy demand, paired with the harmful environmental effects of fossil fuels, has triggered the search for alternative, ...

4 The Economics and Economic Effects of Biofuel Production

The competition for feedstock created by increased production of biofuels could have substantial economic impacts on the prices of agricultural commodities, ...

GCSE Physics - Biofuels - SubjectToClimate

This video explains where biofuels come from and the pros and cons of using biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels. · Students will learn ...

Energy Literacy | Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest [Archived]

Adopted from US Department of Energy Learn more about DOE's Energy Literacy program. AHB provides information about the fuels we currently use and explains ...

The contribution of biofuels to the sustainability of development in ...

retained by producing countries? •. On balance, does the replacement of fossil fuels represent a net gain in terms of energy and environmental ...

The Myth of Biofuels - Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos

The propaganda of "green fuel" or "clean energy" has been amply divulged in Brasil. "Used as a substitute to petroleum derivatives, both ethanol ...

Engineered yeast could expand biofuels' reach | MIT News

Boosting production of biofuels such as ethanol could be an important step toward reducing global consumption of fossil fuels. However, ethanol ...

DOE Shifting Focus from Gasoline Replacement to Entire Barrel of Oil

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...Paul Bryan, program manager of the DOE's Office of Biomass, said at the Advanced Biofuesl Leadership Conference that the ...

explain why biodiesel fuels have a different effect on atmospheric ...

Biodiesel has decreased emission of atmospheric carbon than fossil fuels due to the presence of oxygen molecules. Biofuels have lower carbon ...

DOE opens funding opportunity to support Co-Optima initiative

Jet fuel from poplar trees is on the horizon, thanks to collaborative ...

Tuskan, the chief executive officer of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, explains ... In 2019, the DOE awarded an additional $2.52 ...

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human ...

Creating liquid biofuels from human waste shows promise as a way to meet one of alternative energy's greatest challenges: reducing the ...

Government Support for Ethanol and Biodiesel in the United States

projects, includes biofuels (EPACT 1701-03; DOE solicitation). ... biodiesel, in contrast with the ethanol industry, likely explains this ...

What Does $60 Oil Mean for the Biofuel Industry?

Updated requirements are expected from the EPA early next year. If the mandates are repealed, says Tyner, 'then cellulosic biofuels and ...