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Metabolic path to improved biofuel production
2015-03-04 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership that includes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have found a way to increase the production of fuels and other chemicals from biomass fermented by yeast. By introducing new metabolic pathways into the yeast, they enable the microbes to efficiently ferment cellulose and hemicellulose, the two major families of sugar found in the plant cell wall, without the...
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Biofuel may be bad news for forests, climate, food security, says report
2015-02-27 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new report from the World Resources Institute finds that dedicating land to the production of biofuels, a form of renewable energy made from plants, may undermine efforts to achieve a sustainable food future, combat climate change, and protect forests. The global population hit seven billion in 2011 and is expected to grow to nine billion in 2050. Feeding all those people without chopping down forests for agriculture and livestock will already be a difficult task, according to Tim Searchinger,...
New catalyst delivers high yield of biofuel 5-EMF
2015-02-27 10:55:34| Green Car Congress
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UC Riverside CELF biomass pretreatment technology could cut cellulosic biofuel production cost by about 30%
2015-02-25 11:56:29| Green Car Congress
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Biofuel from trash create green jobs bonanza, says report
2015-02-17 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Creating biofuels from waste produced by industry, farms, and households could generate 36,000 jobs in the UK and save around 37m tonnes of oil use annually by 2030, according to a new report. Across Europe, hundreds of thousands of new jobs could be created by using these advanced biofuels, which could replace 16% of the continents road transport fuel by the same year, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) study said. But the gains will not come without ambitious policy to...
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