je.st

Home › biofuels

Tag: biofuels

Is the future of biofuels in algae? Exxon Mobil says it's possible.

2013-03-13 23:51:27| Chemicals - Topix.net

An Exxon Mobil logo seen at a Dallas gas station. Exxon says the technology just isn't there yet for algae-based fuels yet, though it had originally predicted it was only a decade away from producing these fuels, Alic writes.

Tags: its possible future says

General Wesley Clark accuses oil majors of trying to kill off biofuels industry

2013-03-13 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: The biofuels industry must join together to combat the negative "studies and misinformation" funded by the trillion dollar oil industry, according to former NATO commander General Wesley Clark. In an extraordinary tirade, Clark, who now serves as co-chair of US biofuels specialist Growth Energy, accused global oil majors of actively undermining the biofuels industry, even though many oil companies now have business units dedicated to the technology. "You're going against the largest industry...

Tags: general industry oil kill

Second generation biofuels on verge of cost breakthrough

2013-03-12 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Developers of second generation biofuels made from non-food crops and waste material are on track to deliver fuels that are cost-competitive with ethanol and conventional fossil fuels by the second half of this decade. That is the conclusion of a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), released today, which surveyed leading developers of so-called cellulosic biofuels and found that the falling cost of enzymes and fermentation processes means they expect to achieve cost parity by 2016....

Tags: cost generation breakthrough verge