Definition: A biofuel is a fuel made from recently living biomass, such as crops, algae, microorganisms, agricultural residues, food waste or manure. Common examples include bioethanol, biodiesel, ...

India's ethanol blending programme turns sugarcane into fuel through a 10-step process. The push aims to cut oil imports, ...

Researchers with the U.S Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute have identified a new potential biofuel made by engineering microbes. The JBEI research team engineered strains of two ...

India's ethanol push is moving beyond E20, but experts say higher blending must also account for groundwater stress and ...

Biofuel refers to any fuel made by processing something biological (normally a biomass) and many processes involve using microorganisms, as with the production of bioethanol, or, alternative, the ...

The bacterium C. autoethanogenum (middle, top) is used in industrial conversion plants to detoxify waste gases rich in CO 2 and CO while producing various compounds, including the biofuel ethanol.

Airline companies like Virgin and Continental have been testing biofuel alternatives to jet fuel to reduce their dependence on oil and limit greenhouse gas emissions. In some cases, though, it's ...

Australia's BHP and Singapore's Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation have blended biofuel made from used cooking oil and waste ​animal fat to refuel a cargo ship in a ‌pilot project, the ...

Oil majors, including Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies, are scaling back or delaying biofuel projects despite earlier commitments to ramp up production. Shell’s decision to cancel its massive Rotterdam ...