A John Greenler, director of education and outreach at the Wisconsin Energy Institute and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center: The production of biofuels starts by growing plants out in a field ...

Earlier this century, jatropha was hailed as a “miracle” biofuel. An unassuming shrubby tree native to Central America, it was wildly promoted as a high-yielding, drought-tolerant biofuel feedstock ...

A combination of rising costs, shrinking supplies, and concerns about global climate change are spurring the development of alternatives to the burning of fossil fuels to meet our transportation ...

Liquid biofuels are routinely included in national policy pathways to cut carbon emissions and transition to “net-zero.” Biofuels are particularly tasked with reducing emissions from ...

A life-cycle analysis of biojet fuel from camelina seeds has shown an 84% reduction in carbon emissions compared with conventional jet fuel. In a Michigan Technological University study conducted with ...