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Biofuels
Biofuels are a type of renewable fuel that is derived from biomass, often plant matter or another kind of biological material. They are used to partially or completely replace petroleum-derived fossil fuels. Kinds of biofuels include solid biomass, liquid fuels and biogases. Specific examples include bioethanol, made from sugar and starch crops, and biodiesel, made from vegetable oils, animals fats and other recycled greases.
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Turning algae into aviation fuel
At TEDxNASA in San Francisco, Bilal Bomani, a senior scientist with NASA's biofuels program, discusses the space agency's study of algae and halophytes as the next generation of aviation fuel.
3 | August 19, 2011 10:09am
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Biotech's biggest challenges
At the Nordic Green conference in Menlo Park, Calif., Bob Wilson, director of chemical science and technology at SRI International, discusses with biotech executives the impediments they are...
April 29, 2010 4:01pm
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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...
1 | February 12, 2009 2:58pm
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Turning algae into aviation fuel
At TEDxNASA in San Francisco, Bilal Bomani, a senior scientist with NASA's biofuels program, discusses the space agency's study of algae and halophytes as the next generation of aviation fuel.
3 | August 19, 2011 10:09am
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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...
1 | February 12, 2009 2:58pm
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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...
December 5, 2008 11:50am
