Biofuels

The food production giant is exploring how the waste in its operations -- namely inedible fats and greases -- could become a source of renewable energy.

4 | August 5, 2010 12:33pm | By Heather Clancy

Professor Andy Frank says we can do it.

37 | August 5, 2010 12:01am | By Deborah Gage

Venture capital investments in cleantech companies surged in the second quarter, according to Ernst & Young.

August 3, 2010 5:31am | By Larry Dignan

Hundreds of scientists and dozens of companies are hard at work to engineer algae to make green fuel. Are they disrupting Mother Nature's equilibrium?

5 | July 27, 2010 7:03am | By Andrew Nusca

Solazyme's founder and CTO says it was the first biofuel company to move past PowerPoints and give the Navy what it wants: green, algae-based jet fuel.

5 | July 26, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Calera is one of six projects that got money from the DOE for turning waste carbon dioxide into something useful.

3 | July 23, 2010 3:28pm | By Deborah Gage

It's a bird. It's Superman. It's a plane flying on algae! But will this biofuel cost too much to ever take off? International aerospace company EADS hopes not.

5 | July 22, 2010 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Oregon's wind power problem; redesigning the LED light; Detroit: greenest city in America?; BP's risky buy; a pro-drilling environmentalist.

July 20, 2010 1:24pm | By Andrew Nusca

Energy giant BP will acquire the cellulosic biofuels business of industrial enzyme maker Verenium for $98.3 million.

1 | July 15, 2010 7:17am | By Andrew Nusca

Despite decades of development, no one has succeeded in the biofuels business. Cobalt Technologies CEO Rick Wilson says he wants to be the first.

2 | July 15, 2010 4:24am | By Andrew Nusca

Purdue University researchers think turning biomass into biofuel on a mobile platform will make the process cheaper. But their idea still needs to be tested out in the lab before it ever begins to...

July 9, 2010 3:34pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

If clean technology is going to be a success, the rules for how to do business in the sector must be clearer, experts say.

3 | July 7, 2010 7:47am | By Andrew Nusca

VantagePoint CEO Alan Salzman says the Tesla electric car is a lot like the Apple II computer -- original, expensive and a few years before it will change the world.

5 | July 6, 2010 7:00am | By Andrew Nusca

Britain plans to curb "binge flying" by limiting growth at Heathrow Airport. Here in the United States, the FAA is taking a more technology-driven approach to the problem.

6 | July 2, 2010 5:18am | By Heather Clancy

Global cleantech investment by venture capital firms totaled more than $2 billion in the first half of 2010. Here's a breakdown of to whom and where it went.

July 1, 2010 9:06am | By Andrew Nusca

Dr. Roger Beachy says we can't satisfy a hungry and growing planet without using 'every safe tool in the arsenal.'

8 | June 30, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Renewable products company Amyris announced on Friday that it entered into an agreement with energy giant Shell for the supply of its diesel fuel.

June 28, 2010 6:35am | By Andrew Nusca

There appears to be a bit of a tug-of-war between auto manufacturers, agriculture companies and U.S. regulators over how much ethanol should be put into gasoline.

1 | June 22, 2010 5:42am | By Larry Dignan

The Environmental Protection Agency delays findings on whether to permit higher concentrations of ethanol in gasoline.

7 | June 21, 2010 9:56am | By Melissa Mahony

Honeywell UOP's "Green Jet Fuel" successfully powered a Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter flown by the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

3 | June 16, 2010 7:17am | By Andrew Nusca