This study assesses the potential for bioenergy production using various feedstocks such as sugarcane, oil palm, and municipal solid waste in six Caribbean small island developing states – Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
Will lay emphasis on increasing production of oilseeds Rajasthan has become the first State in the country to implement the national policy on biofuels unveiled by the Centre in May this year. The desert State will lay emphasis on increasing production of oilseeds and establish a Centre for Excellence in …
Current crop yields could provide nutritious food for the projected 2050 global population, but only if we make radical changes to our dietary choices, a new study shows. Researchers from Lancaster University have analysed global and regional food supplies to reveal the flows of calories, protein and vital micro-nutrients from …
It also allows use of surplus food grains for production of ethanol for blending with petrol with the approval of National Biofuel Coordination Committee, it said The Cabinet approved the National Policy on Biofuels which allows doping of ethanol produced from damaged foodgrains, rotten potatoes, corn and sugar beet with …
Despite a 2016 study carried out by the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) indicating that the share of pollutants from burning the biofuels and suspended dust was almost 48.25 per cent to the PM 2.5 levels in Mumbai, environmentalists blame the authourities and say that they …
Indian oil companies are investing in biofuel refineries to boost ethanol production from non-molasses sources such as agricultural residues An oil refinery in a region in India that’s more famous for its tea plantations is hoping to put its abundant greenery to new use. A $200 million joint venture between …
NEW DELHI: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said India is a happening place as it is offering Rs one lakh crore business in bio-fuel and bio-energy to the investors across the globe. "India is a happening place for energy. Every day 40 million people are going to …
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo inspecting a peatland clearing that was engulfed by fire in Banjar Baru in southern Kalimantan province on Borneo island. If Britain and other European nations are to fulfil forest protection goals, they must ban the use of palm oil for biofuel and tighten oversight of supply …
Recent years have shown increased awareness that the use of the basic resources water, food, and energy are highly interconnected (referred to as a ‘nexus’). Spatial scales are an important but complicating factor in nexus analyses, and should receive more attention – especially in the policy-oriented literature. In this paper, …
(Reuters) - A group of 38 U.S. senators asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to abandon plans to lower biofuel requirements for oil refiners in 2018, according to a letter made public by the office of Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The senators, including Republican Senator Chuck …
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to roll out the use of ethanol in gasoline nationally by 2020, state media reported on Wednesday citing a government document, as Beijing intensifies its push to boost industrial demand for corn and clean up choking smog. It’s the first time the government has set …
France will take steps to restrict the use of palm oil in producing biofuels in order to reduce deforestation in the countries of origin, French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said on Thursday. France has opposed other uses of palm oil in the past. Several bills have been presented to parliament …
The U.S. government on Wednesday proposed to reduce the volume of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel fuel next year as it signaled the first step toward a potential broader overhaul of its biofuels program. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed total volume marked a slight decline …
Researchers at IIT - Kharagpur have developed a technology that has the potential to make biofuel manufacturing cheaper, quicker and free of pollution. The 'soil-to-soil' manufacturing technology developed at the P.K. Sinha Centre for Bioenergy at IIT - Kharagpur is in the process of being patented. Researchers say bioethanol can …
To many, cannabis is a recreational drug; to some, it is a medicine. Now, it is increasingly seen as a crop, to be grown in quantity and engineered for better traits—not just pharmacological effects, but also fiber content and the rapid, efficient growth that makes a plant useful for biofuels. …
The Federal Government, yesterday, said it was working on a policy that would set aside $50 billion to fund and stimulate investment in production of biofuels. Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this in Abuja at the National Capacity Building and Sensitisation Workshop on …
The recent data from the National Crop Estimate Committee painted a troubling picture of the South African sorghum industry. This is a crop that was once seen as key to the development of the biofuel industry in South Africa and, in turn, job creation in rural areas. The data shows …
Increasing demand for sustainable energy has led to research and development on the cultivation of diverse plant species for biomass production. To support the research and development required to domesticate and cultivate crops for bioenergy, we developed the Biofuel Ecophysiological Traits and Yields database (BETYdb). BETYdb is a centralized open-access …
India and Canada are broadening their energy dialogue to cover nuclear energy and renewables besides traditional hydrocarbon sources of energy as Ottawa hopes to emerge as Delhi's key energy provider across all sectors, according to Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr. "We want to provide solutions to entire energy …
TRICHY: Biofuel made from microalgae can prove to be an alternative to conventional fossil fuels, said experts participating in the international conference, titled 'Microalgal and Cyanobacterial biotechnology (MACB) 2016' conducted by the National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria (NFMC) in the city on Tuesday. Cyanobacteria dating back to 3.5 billon years …
While the bacteria E. coli is often considered a bad bug, researchers commonly use laboratory-adapted E. coli that lacks the features that can make humans sick, but can grow just as fast. That same quality allows it to transform into the tiniest of factories: when its chemical production properties are …
