Stockholm tests ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses

Sweden's Scania has started full-scale operational trials with six ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses on the streets of Stockholm. Run in cooperation with Stockholm Public Transport and Swebus, the trials aim to further improve environmental conditions in the Swedish capital. The buses' hybrid technology is expected to reduce fuel consumption by 25 percent, while the use of ethanol…

ByThe Global ViewMay 26, 20090Comments

Energy

Corn ethanol rises from the grave?

Texas-based EdenIQ today unveiled a new method for increasing the ethanol yield from corn (PDF). The Corn3 Yield Enhancement Program, as it's called, boost production to more than three gallons from a bushel of corn, up from the industry average of 2.69 gallons per bushel. "In these turbulent times of volatile corn and energy prices -- and…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 26, 20090Comments

Energy

Saudi scholar: biofuel = alcohol = a ‘sin’

As if corn-based ethanol hasn't already taken enough of a beating for taking food out of people's mouths and being a loser in the energy-equation and greenhouse-gas departments ... now comes news that a prominent Saudi scholar warns that using biofuels is a sin. The Al Arabiya News Channel reports that Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi is cautioning…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 20, 20090Comments

Smart Cities

Florida announces first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant

Verenium Company today announced plans to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, to be located in south-central Florida's Highlands County. Set to begin operations in 2011, the proposed $250 million (US) to $300 million facility will get its biofuel feedstock from Lykes Bros. Inc., an agribusiness that farms about 20,000 acres of land adjacent to…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 16, 20091Comment

Smart Cities

E. coli: from intestinal distress cause to biofuel superhero?

Corn-based ethanol is so 2008, but a team of California researchers have found a potential energy source that could put cellulosic and algae-based biofuels on the "Out" list next. The source? E, coli. Yes, that's right, E. coli as in Escherichia coli, the intestinal-based bacterium that's been Public Enemy Number One in countless food poisoning outbreaks. Turns…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 8, 20090Comments

Energy

2008 meets 2009: A look back … and forward

Too many Top-This-or-That-of-2008-type stories are published during the end-of-the-year holidays: who has time to read them all? That's why, here at Greenbang, we've saved the wrapup (and look ahead) feature till now. Anyway, doing our Top-Stories-of-2008 story now makes sense in another way as well, as many of the factors affecting last year's big news events…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 6, 20091Comment

Smart Cities

U.S. eyes fuel-boosting ‘Franken-corn’

A global seed company has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to deregulate a genetically engineered (GE) variety of corn that shows an edge for ethanol production. Syngenta Seeds Inc. says the GE corn produces high levels of the alpha-amylase enzyme that converts corn starches into sugars, a first…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 28, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

US ethanol plans gang agley … again

Robbie Burns would understand the current difficulties facing the well-intended ethanol market, which are aptly described these days as, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley." Witness the latest situation in the U.S. state of Missouri, where fuel stations once required to sell a petrol-ethanol blend have returned to selling plain old…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 26, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

Ohio ‘dark grey powder’ the future of hydrogen cars?

It seems that the US Department of Energy (DoE) can't get enough of giving away cash to clean tech projects. Stories about the largesse of the DoE seem to crop up with all the regularity of editorials about Princess Diana/binge drinking/house price crashes in the Daily Mail, rubbish BBC sitcoms or chewing gum on Greenbang's…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 21, 20085Comments

Energy

BP finds new $90m biofuels friend

For a company whose name is dangerously close to the proper word for your gooch, (look it up on urban dictionary if you’re unsure - or don’t, if you’re at work and someone’s looking over your shoulder) biofuels bunch Verenium knows how to pull in the readies. The ethanol maker has struck a deal with plain…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 8, 20080Comments

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Stockholm tests ethanol-fuelled hybrid buses

Corn ethanol rises from the grave?

Saudi scholar: biofuel = alcohol = a ‘sin’

Florida announces first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant

E. coli: from intestinal distress cause to biofuel superhero?

2008 meets 2009: A look back … and forward

U.S. eyes fuel-boosting ‘Franken-corn’

US ethanol plans gang agley … again

Ohio ‘dark grey powder’ the future of hydrogen cars?

BP finds new $90m biofuels friend

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