The dream of turning everyday waste into gasoline could become a reality within two years, thanks to a process that converts biomass into high-octane gasoline. The technology was developed through a joint venture between Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc.

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We often talk of the near-limitless potential of creating fuel from such unlikely sources as say an old tire or perhaps a mountain of wood chips. Each time I research these topics; I’m reminded of the old saying that yesterday’s science fiction oft becoming tomorrow’s science.
As one might expect, however, there are some pretty […]

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According to the US Department of Energy, the greatest potential to revolutionize the transportation industry lies not within ethanol, bio-diesel, electric, or flex fuel engines but rather through hydrogen: The simplest and most abundant element in the known universe.
Versatility in production is one of the element’s greatest strengths and hydrogen comes with many options from […]

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Some encouraging news from the biofuel front was released by a Vancouver, Canada enterprise. Syntec Biofuel, a company developing biomass to fuel conversion technologies, announced that it has achieved a yield of 105 gallons of alcohol (ethanol, methanol, n-butanol and n-propanol) per ton of biomass. The company runs a 300 ton per day biomass processing […]

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