North Carolina’s Growing Strengths: The Solar Center’s Clean Transportation...
(Biofuels Center of North Carolina) Celebrating 25 years at N.C. State University, the N.C. Solar Center continues its commitment to outreach, demonstration, and deployment of technology and policy...
View ArticlePitt County Features Biodiesel 4 Schools Program in New Video
(Pitt County Government) Since 2012, Pitt County Schools has partnered with Green Circle North Carolina to turn used cooking oil into cash for schools, and that partnership is paying dividends. This...
View ArticleHanes Grows Biofuels: Students Focus on Environmental Sustainability
(Biofuels Center of North Carolina) Under the direction of the Biofuels Center, Hanes Middle School students in Winston-Salem, N.C., plant Switchgrass seedlings at the school’s newly established...
View ArticleAbout the Biofuels Center Shutdown
(North Carolina State University) …But, on the other hand, the Biofuels program has managed to bring a lot of new agricultural innovation to North Carolina. So Shane Reese, Communications Manager for...
View ArticleWaste Fat to Biofuels Costs Slashed with New Sugar Based Catalyst
(Waste Management World) Researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a new sugar based catalyst that could cut the cost of producing biodiesel from poor quality waste oil...
View ArticleSafety From the School of Hard Knocks
by Lyle Estill (Piedmont Biofuels/Biodiesel Magazine) At Piedmont Biofuels we came by our culture of safety the hard way. We’ve been making biodiesel since 2002 and we have lots of “thrills, chills...
View ArticleA Systematic Review of Biochar Research, with a Focus on Its Stability in...
by Noel P. Gurwick, Lisa A. Moore, Charlene Kelly, Patricia Elias (PLOSone) Claims about the environmental benefits of charring biomass and applying the resulting “biochar” to soil are impressive. If...
View ArticleFuture Valmet to Supply a LignoBoost Plant for the New Biorefinery at the...
(Metso) Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power business, the future Valmet, will supply a LignoBoost lignin separation plant to Stora Enso’s Sunila mill near Kotka in the south east of Finland. The order is...
View ArticleAP Investigation: Obama’s Green Energy Drive Comes with an Unadvertised...
By Dina Cappiello (Associated Press/StarTribune) The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted...
View ArticleBiofuels and Climate Change: Pulpwood to the Rescue?
by Bill Chameides (Duke University) New study concludes that biofuels can be part of climate-energy solution. The debate has been raging for years. Can biofuels, fuels derived from recently alive...
View ArticleBiofuels Manufacturer to Create 65 Jobs in Sampson County, N.C.
(Thrive in North Carolina/North Carolina Governor’s Office) Biochemtex will be locating its new cellulosic biofuels production operations in North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina...
View ArticleTaming the Dangerous – Yet Beautiful and Profitable – Castor Bean Plant
by Thomas Burns Jr. (Charlotte Observer) Novo Synthetix, a small biotechnology company in Research Triangle Park, is marshaling scientific resources statewide to create a nontoxic castor bean, which...
View ArticleUSDA and DOE Fund 7 Research Projects to Develop Plant Feedstocks for Bioenergy
(US Department of Agriculture) The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) today announced $8 million in research grants to develop non-food feedstocks that can be used for bioenergy....
View ArticleMontana State University Research into Algal Biofuels Keys Larger Study
by Sepp Jannotta (MSU News Service) … Robin Gerlach is the MSU professor coordinating research into the production of oil-producing algae, as well the feasibility of commercial-scale biofuel...
View ArticleNew Technique May Reduce Biofuel Production Costs
(Canadian Biomass Magazine) Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to...
View ArticleObama’s Climate Legacy May Come Down to Coal and ‘No’
by Bill Chameides (Duke University) The Obama administration gave environmentalists little to cheer about last week, but the game is hardly over. When it comes to climate change, Obama’s rhetoric has...
View ArticleWEBINAR: In Field Drying of Woody Biomass: A NCSU Project to Transform Forest...
In Field Drying offers the opportunity for woody biomass energy to increase in supply and decrease in cost. Landowners, loggers, and producers all stand to benefit from natural drying processes. NCSU...
View ArticleU.S. Transportation: Driving Down the Same Old (Bumpy) Road or Paving a New...
by Bill Chameides (Duke University) While the Highway Trust Fund did a fine job of funding infrastructure maintenance for decades, it now is sorely lacking. The taxes collected are nowhere near enough...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Hydrogen and Hydro-Riches
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … “You will never have enough affordable hydrogen.” Perhaps that is the attractor in the news from little-known Solarvest Bioenergy, when they announced third party...
View ArticleCollective Biodiesel Conference August 14-17, 2014 Pittsboro, NC
The Collective Biodiesel Conference is geared toward active and open collaboration among participants, including home brewers, grease collectors, multi-million gallon producers, and everyone in...
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