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Articles on Biofuel
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Producing energy from harvested trees and other plants – bioenergy – might sound like a greener option, but it’s not a simple issue.
Women’s relationship to the environment is shaped by their social position.
New developments in microalgae cultivation are helping to propel the potential of renewable biofuels to combat climate change.
Our research identified three key lessons.
Lightweight, flexible materials can be used to make health-monitoring wearable devices, but powering the devices is a challenge. Using fuel cells instead of batteries could make the difference.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
Palm oil production is a leading cause of deforestation in Asia, but an EU ban may make matters worse.
The development of a hydrogen charging station has made it possible to run vehicles without producing greenhouse gases.
The right kind of algae can be converted to biofuel, and there are potential side benefits for carbon capture.
The climate change-mitigating dream turns out to be a green damp squib.
The capacity of woody biomass to provide the energy requirements for sub-Saharan Africa is declining. Papyrus wetlands are a sustainable source of biomass that holds potential to substitute for wood.
Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?
Eucalyptus oil is useful for lots of things – what if that list also included carbon-neutral aviation fuel? Chemistry suggests it could.
Microbes have the ability to survive in extremely hot and cold conditions. This makes them invaluable tools for research: they can teach us how life has evolved and how we survive.
The economics of making biofuels from algae no longer add up, but a lesson from the oil industry could make them viable.
Africa’s savannas provide high potential for farming development but this needs to be done in a smart manner to not worsen climate change.
Current clean diesel technology is more than capable of meeting tough air quality rules while still delivering excellent fuel performance. Biofuels could make it even cleaner.
The future of two key energy policies – the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Renewable Fuel Standard – will decide whether bioenergy will continue to grow in US or not.
We have the technology to make oil from algae, rather than digging up crude oil from organisms that lived billions of years ago. But bringing it to market will take a force of economic and political will.
Top contributors
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Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
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Director, Technoeconomic Analysis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Reading
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Vice Chancellor, University of Chester
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PhD Candidate in tree genomics and evolution, Australian National University
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Instructor, Diesel Equipment Technology, Penn State
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business Development and State Energy Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor in Plant Science, Trinity College Dublin
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Head of Environment, Nottingham Trent University
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Chair Professor, Swansea University
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Maitre de conférences en informatique Laboratoire Perseus Metz, Université de Lorraine
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Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Chemistry, Monash University
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Director, Genomics Research Institute; Director, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria
