Could biofuels play an important role in addressing both the GHG emissions of transport and the dependency on petroleum? Currently marketed, first-generation biofuels represent only around 3% of ...

Which plants are good resources for biofuel production? The first attempts to produce a biologically-based fuel to replace mineral petrol and diesel, continued to look for derivatives of well ...

Increasing the production of first-generation (1G) biofuels faces several uphill battles, including the ethical dilemma of diverting farmland and crops away from the world’s food supply.

Recent deals also illustrate a trend of moving away from first-generation biofuels derived from food crops such as corn, sugarcane and oilseed, and toward the next generation, made from more ...

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Next Generation Biofuels: Strategic Portfolio Management, finds that second-generation biofuels have the capacity to replace first-generation biofuels based on ...

Algae-derived biofuel burns cleaner than petroleum fuels and is often less resource-intensive than first-generation biofuels. That's the conclusion the Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) reaches ...

Cherry joins New Generation Biofuels as the company completes test burn programs with three leading utility companies and begins production to fulfill its first fuel contract for a power ...