However, biofuel production remains complex and costly, with efficiency challenges that limit its widespread adoption. To address these issues, experts are turning to nanotechnology to improve ...

With growing global energy demands, the push for sustainable fuel alternatives has led scientists to explore biofuel production from microorganisms. A recent study led by Bharat Kumar Majhi presents ...

Global grain and oilseed markets remain oversupplied, but increased biofuels production and improving export conditions are ...

Which plants are good resources for biofuel production? The first attempts to produce a biologically-based fuel to replace mineral petrol and diesel, continued to look for derivatives of well-known ...

The U.S. is the world leader in biofuel production—generating 47 percent of global output over the last decade. The ten-fold expansion in ethanol production in the U.S. from 2002 to 2019 has been ...

A research team has found that a natural bacterium isolated from mushroom crop residue can directly convert cellulose to biobutanol, a biofuel. A team of engineers from the National University of ...

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Over 100 biofuel plants across the country are fully idling or cutting production rates as gas prices fall because people are staying at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak and major oil producers feud ...

Some chemicals used to speed up the breakdown of plants for production of biofuels like ethanol are poison to the yeasts that turn the plant sugars into fuel. Researchers have identified two changes ...

So far as feedstocks for the production of biofuels go, kelp is a highly promising one on many fronts, and a new technology promises to boost its credentials even further. Scientists at the University ...