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  • Alaska Airlines also brings biofuels to commercial runways

    The carrier plans 75 flights over the next several weeks between Seattle and two other cities that will use about 20 percent biofuel blend.

    Blog posts | November 10, 2011 12:16pm PST

  • First algae-fueled commercial airliner takes flight

    United Airlines sponsors first commercial flight of a plane powered by biofuels created by Solazyme, using a Honeywell process.

    Blog posts | November 7, 2011 3:21pm PST

  • An optofluidic solar energy system

    The "father" of optofluidics, the study of light and liquids, says the new field could help address the energy challenge.

    Blog posts | September 11, 2011 11:39pm PDT

  • New energy lab searches for next biofuel breakthrough (photos)

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's cutting-edge biofuels demonstration unit opens its doors, with the hopes of streamlining the process of researching various biofuels' viability.

  • Creating plants with a kill switch (photos)

    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits an agriculture start-up in the Boston area that is genetically engineering proteins for energy crops to make biofuels.

  • From biofuels to green chemicals (images)

    A number of biotech start-ups are targeting industrial chemicals and other high-margin additives first on their way to making petroleum fuel replacements.

  • Building a microscopic biofuel factory (photos)

    Start-up Joule Unlimited is at the forefront of a wave of researchers and companies using genetic engineering to make biofuels.

  • Research: Biofuels still a mere drop in barrel as fuel alternative

    For those of you studying bio-fuels and bio-based materials developments, there's a new report out you might want to grab. It finds that the total capacity for biofuels today is only about 3...

    Blog posts | October 6, 2010 2:08pm PDT

  • Corn chips or biofuel? Feds push for more ethanol

    EPA rules that ethanol is greener than gasoline.

    Blog posts | February 3, 2010 10:24pm PST

  • Biofuel starts new year with a thud

    Biofuel loses rich government tax credit, takes a nosedive in U.S.

    Blog posts | January 1, 2010 6:47pm PST

  • Cars, crooks, money and hackers--2009 was a rich year indeed

    Some of the hottest topics in greentech 2009.

    Blog posts | December 19, 2009 6:00am PST

  • Can anybody here play this game?

    Kyoto Protocol miscalculated on deforestation and biofuel production. Big mistake.

    Blog posts | October 22, 2009 1:46pm PDT

  • Another rude awakening for another biofuel dream

    This time it's jatropha. It was going to grow all over the unused, dry land of energy hungry nations. Ooops, back to the lab, I guess. When I first blogged jatropha over two years ago, it was a...

    Blog posts | September 18, 2009 4:30pm PDT

  • Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

    A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like...

    Blog posts | July 4, 2009 10:35am PDT

  • Ethanol, our trash and our economy

    This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build...

    Blog posts | April 14, 2009 2:45pm PDT

  • Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]

    At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...

    Blog posts | February 17, 2009 1:05pm PST

  • Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

    At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...

    Videos | February 12, 2009 2:58pm PST

  • Swedish greentech will miss the Bush Admin

    The U.S. Ambassador to Sweden appointed by Bush will likely be replaced. And Swedish greentech companies will likely miss him. He took his cross-cultural duties seriously and worked to promote...

    Blog posts | January 21, 2009 8:24am PST

  • Energy from the wind is the best for Earth

    According to a Stanford University researcher, 'wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy.' The scientist 'has conducted the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of...

    Blog posts | December 11, 2008 10:06am PST

  • Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel

    At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the...

    Videos | December 5, 2008 11:50am PST

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