Tel Aviv University biologists say a solution to our search for alternative energy may come from an unexpected source ―  peas. Researchers isolating minute crystals of the PSI super complex…

Biomass currently supplies about a third of the developing countries’ energy varying from about 90% in countries like Uganda, Rawanda and Tanzania, to 45 percent in India, 30 percent in China and…

Plants and algae, as well as cyanobacteria, use photosynthesis to produce oxygen and "fuels," the latter being oxidizable substances like carbohydrates and hydrogen. There are two pigment-protein…

Researchers have developed a way to produce ethanol from waste products such as orange peels and newspapers. The approach is 'greener' and less expensive than the current methods available to run…

Energy Policy Should Maximize Benefits of All Renewable Biomass February 12th, 2010 The new rule announced by EPA last week implementing the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) takes a major step…

Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need February 4th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment President Obama and members of his Biofuels Interagency Working Group are to be…

Here is an idea for a new energy policy: teach people what energy is and where it comes from. Whether or not you think human activity is effecting global climate change, whether we should drill-baby-…

Any 600 million productrion of Jatropha would need involvement of all those who have worked for years in DBT projects and developed accessions and high yielding plants. (Kumar 2008)

The debate of food vs fuel is an excuse for putting lame excuses for our failures to retain productivity level of the farmlands, irregular practices of growing crops in the areas where they should…

An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics…