Moving from an Oil Economy to a Bioeconomy
The question of sustainability is becoming one of the major driving forces in the agriculture, livestock and farming industry, writes TheBioenergySite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Biofuel Options Expand as Science Taps New Sources
Scientists are making progress in developing biofuels with a range of methods and an assortment of feedstocks, according to the US Department of Energy.

Could Generating Energy from Waste be the Answer?
Scientists at Teesside University are helping to find answers to one of the most difficult problems facing the world today - generating energy without accelerating climate change or harming food production.

Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.

Energy Yield from Biogas Can be Improved
With online monitoring of different parameters in the biogas production, the energy yield of this climate-friendly energy source can be optimised, according to research at Aarhus University Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.

USDA Scientists, Cooperators Sequence Soy Genome
Foundation research that has been successful in sequencing most of the soy genome will help improve soybeans and other legumes.

Microbubbles Win Awards
A paper about the design of an air-lift loop bioreactor, which exploits a recent patent by two of the co-authors (Zimmerman and Tesar, WO2008053174) for the energy-efficient generation of microbubbles and revolutionising the potential production of biofuels,...

Using Pigs to Grow Tomatoes with Biogas
An innovative eco-friendly pig farm of the future is the dream of a Danish pig farmer, Soren Hansen and the concept of a PhD architecture student, Nee Rentz Petersen, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

CHP Opportunities Right for Food and Beverage Processors
An emerging confluence of legislation, funding, and technical progress regarding alternative energy conversion and energy efficiency is resulting in new opportunities for industrial energy systems implementations, writes Comas Haynes in PoultryTech at...

CSL Sequences for Future Biofuels
Aaron Liepman's lab is part of a United States Department of Agriculture project that could someday lead to more efficient production of everything from biofuels to beer, writes Amy E. Whitesall at Eastern Michigan University.

Paving the Way for More Reliable Wind Turbine Design
Risø DTU has just concluded a large full-scale experiment on a wind turbine at Tjæreborg Enge near Esbjerg on the west coast of Jutland.

Looking Deeply into Polymer Solar Cells
Investigations by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have shed new light on the operational principles of polymer solar cells.

CHP Save Energy in Brewing
A cool, freshly drawn beer – for many a person this is the greatest of pleasures. But, in fact, a bad conscience should haunt us when we drink beer as it is among the most energy-intensive foodstuffs during production.

Exploring Standards to Advance Microbial Genomics
Microbes contribute to manifold human endeavors ranging from bioenergy to agriculture to medicine. Moreover, they make the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles go round, a prerequisite for all life on the planet, according to a report by the US DOE Joint Genome...

Lasers are Making Solar Cells Competitive
Solar electricity has a future: It is renewable and available in unlimited quantities, and it does not produce any gases detrimental to the climate, according to researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute.