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Biofuel cheaper than US$50-a-barrel oil?

Green-tech execs discuss the benefits of biofuel

September 17, 2008 by ZDNet Staff

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Biofuel cheaper than US$50-a-barrel oil?

Green-tech execs discuss the benefits of biofuel

September 17, 2008

Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-over

This isn't the usual dry-mouth, aching head, nausea beyond weltschmerz kind of hangover, this one is going to be financial. Lost jobs.

January 9, 2009 by Harry Fuller

Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death

We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years.

December 17, 2007 by Harry Fuller

From fungus to fuel

An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding could unlock possibilities for industrial processes that can more efficiently and cost effectively convert corn, switch grass and even cellulose-based municipal waste into ethanol.' But read more...

May 5, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille

BioFuels: now what?

Biofuels Panel, GoingGreen, Davis, CA:Robert Walsh, President LS9Jonathan Wolfson, President & CEO, SolazymeJohn Melo, CEO, Amyris BiotechnologiesSteven Perricone, CEO & Co-Founder, BioFuelBoxModerator: where are we in the biofuels revolution?RW: We are 3-5 years from going to market.

September 11, 2007 by Harry Fuller

World's next fuel source could be designer organisms

Micro-organisms can create beer, cheese and gangrene. Now genome pioneer J. Craig Venter wants them to produce fuel.

November 7, 2005 by Michael Kanellos