Topping up at the petrol pump is about to take an intriguing twist as cars are set to be fuelled with a new super bio-fuel, made from whisky by-products. Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent ...

Chemical engineers have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. The green technology benefits from and adds ...

A new review maps how pretreatment-derived inhibitors sabotage clostridial butanol fermentation and details the metabolic ...

Scientists today reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with a substantially better fuel additive called butanol, which some experts regard as "the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 21 March, 2012. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake announced a contract award to Albemarle Corp. to complete its first biojet fuel production run ...

Butanol is a renewable biofuel that is set to debut at US pumps next year, and hopes to challenge ethanol’s dominance of the $26 billion market. Just as with ethanol it can be produced from corn or ...

The debate touting butanol over ethanol as a ‘better’ fuel component has gone on for quite some time in biofuel circles. Those who support butanol point to three key factors: • Butanol has a higher ...

An Autopia reader (who hails from my birthplace of Philadelphia) emailed us inquiring about the alternative fuel butanol. I posted an item on it last year, but since then BP has joined the ranks of ...

Human activities like the burning of coal and fossil fuels have caused CO 2 to accumulate in the atmosphere, which has significantly affected the Earth's climate. As a result, several scientists are ...