EFuel Corporation. located in Los Gatos, California, is heralding the next generation of biofuel production and distribution, by selling a ” EFuel100 MicroFueler,” a turnkey device that will turn biofuel sugars feedstock into ethanol, and pump it into your vehicle’s tank.
This company claims this machine consumes 3.0 kilowatt-hours to produce one gallon of E100 ethanol.  [...]

Today the BBC ran a story entitled “Grass Biofuels cut CO2 by 94%.”  This 94% is meant to be in comparison to fossil fuel, based on the fact that a recently grown biofuel, when burned, can only release as much CO2 as it absorbed when it was growing.  Thus biofuels are considered ”carbon neutral.”  The BBC story [...]

If the present is problematic, that doesn’t mean the future has no potential.  We have railed against the catastrophe in progress throughout the tropics, as the last rainforests are razed to grow sugar cane and oil palms.  Over and over, we’ve reminded readers to beware of carbon taxes and carbon trading schemes, because European carbon [...]

In many cases it’s that stark:  Either you preserve and expand forests, or you deforest in order to grow biofuel.  If you believe, as we do, that tropical forests are far better for the global climate than biofuel plantations - in terms of all three popular measures; global warming, extreme weather, and droughts - then this [...]

Well it had to happen.  Just as we reported with delight back in 2006 on the imminent arrival of the Tesla Roadster, an all-electric car we estimate can top out somewhere north of 180 mph, last week we learned of a Dodge Viper that’s been modified to run on E85, a fuel blend that is 85% ethanol.

Karl [...]

Sacramento is the capital of California, a state that is world-renowned for its concern for the environment.  As such, the Sacramento region is attracting businesses and investors from around the world, eager to capitalize on Sacramento’s enthusiastic embrace of green industry.  But sometimes green is brown.
At the Port of Sacramento, a start-up company based in Long [...]

In previous posts we’ve expressed concern - to put it mildly - over the role emerging biofuel markets are having in accelerating tropical deforestation. In our posts “Deforestation and Global Warming,” “Biofueled Ethanol,” “Reforest the Tropics,” “IPCC 2007 & Deforestation,” “Is Biofuel Carbon Neutral?,” “Biofueled Global Warming,” and many others, we make the case that [...]