Posts Tagged ‘biofuel’

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Biodiesel companies dying as subsidies end.

Daily Tech has good article on the biodiesel market and the effect of ending subsidies.  Basically, as the US government ends it’s $1/gallon subsidy on biodiesel it has become uneconomical to produce.   Biodiesel producers, big and small, are shutting down.  There are several ways to look at this:
Silly, knee-jerk free market types will say “good [...]

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Saltwater Crops for Biofuels

I’m a big fan of biofuels if the come from a smart feedstock. I don’t know enough about aquaculture to know if this is the answer, but it’s certainly a compelling argument.
Citing the work of Robert Glenn, a plant biologist at the University of Arizona, two biologists argue in this week’s Science [...]