Category Archives: Biofuels & Climate Change

| 03/01/2010

Industrial Biotechnology: Biobased Products, Biofuels, and Synthetic Biology

Biobased products cover a wide range of materials.  One new such product is biobased insulation made from mushrooms named Greensulate. The blog Greenline says that Greensulate, “…is a bio-base alternative to rigid insulation made from paper, rice hulls, and mushroom fibers.   The product is still undergoing testing but the outlook for this new product is very good.  The insulation takes advantage of the mycellium, the roots of the mushroom plant that have incredible structural and Read More >

Biofuels & Climate Change  |  Leave a comment  |  Email This Post
Tags: , , , , ,
| 02/02/2010

This Week in Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology

This week in Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology there’s a new weekly round-up blog called This Week in Synthetic Biology . The writer, Abhishek Tiwari writes in his first post, “This was an amazing week for synthetic biology community, part of the reason is the synthetic biology has completed 10 years since the very first synthetically engineered biological oscillator and toggle switch were introduced in journal Nature (sic) in year 2000. So on this eve I Read More >

Biofuels & Climate Change  |  Leave a comment  |  Email This Post
Tags:
| 01/26/2010

Seen at the Washington Auto Show: Advanced Fuel Cars

Novozymes today offered members of the media, government officials, VIPs and other attendees of the annual Washington Auto Show a chance to test drive of Chevy HHR powered (literally) by government waste. The fuel used in the car was produced from government office wastepaper and waste cardboard by Fiberight. Novozymes President Adam Monroe previewed the effort on Clean Skies TV. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJEqwDtq48Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Also at the show, auto parts maker Ricardo Inc. is displaying a GMC Sierra Read More >

Biofuels & Climate Change  |  1 Comment  |  Email This Post
Tags: , , , , , , ,
| 01/26/2010

This Week in Industrial Biotechnology

This week according to the New Energy World Network “The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Navy are to develop advanced biofuels and other renewable energy systems.” “Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus emphasised how partnering with USDA supports his vision for energy reform. He said, ‘In order to secure the strategic energy future of the United States, create a more nimble and effective fighting force, and protect our planet Read More >

Biofuels & Climate Change  |  1 Comment  |  Email This Post
Tags: , ,
| 01/19/2010

Weekly Blog Round Up

Biofuels are big in Iowa. So big in fact, that according to domesticfuel.com “Iowa State University will get $8 million of a $78 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to research and develop advanced biofuels.” “These Iowa State research projects are paid for by stimulus bucks … the same money that is funding the $44 million to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo. (…..) and the $34 million (plus $8.4 million Read More >

Biofuels & Climate Change  |  1 Comment  |  Email This Post
Tags: , , , ,