GE announced that it has joined Virgin Australia and a consortium of other partners to research and develop commercial biofuel for the aviation industry. The consortium will focus on pyrolytic conversion of biomass from mallee eucalypt trees and intend to have a pilot biofuel production unit operating in Australia by 2012. The agreement comes as [...]
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GE Joined Consortium Established to Develop Australian Biofuel
September 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · biofuels
Corn Fuel and Sugar Ethanol a Waste of Money?
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments · biofuels
How well are corn fuel and sugar ethanol doing in the struggle to reduce America’s dependance on foreign oil? Big companies are losing money converting corn to ethanol in spite of government subsidies (read taxpayer money) for ethanol fuels which are usually a blend with gasoline. The impact on greenhouse gases is minimal. In theory [...]
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Biofuels or Food?
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · biofuels
Biofuels are one way of reducing the world’s dependency on petrol. It will be difficult to reach high volumes soon but as with all efforts, every little bit helps. It’s not all good news though. A big controversy is building on the influence this is having on the world food prices. Already prices of agricultural [...]
