UOP process technology produced green jet fuel from camelina used in Boeing 747 demonstration flight DES PLAINES, Ill., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — UOP LLC, a Honeywell ( HON) company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM [...] [...more]

Christina Rogers / The Detroit News / October 13, 2009 The race to change the way Americans fuel their vehicles is propelling Michigan to the forefront in pioneering alternatives. Some alternative fuel technologies are further along than others — ethanol, for instance, is already available as a gasoline-blend at many pumps — but breakthroughs are afoot in [...] [...more]

Oct. 2, 2009: ScienceDaily Powerful machines that have moving parts—your car’s engine or the hydraulic pump of a huge earthmover, for instance—almost always require lubricants. Today, most of those lubricants are made of so-called “base oil” that’s blended with additives to boost performance. The U.S. demand for additives, already at nearly 2 billion pounds a year, is [...] [...more]

Iowa – IBM and Dubuque have announced plans to partner in the development of new “smarter” technologies and implementation strategies to create an international model of sustainability for communities of 200,000 and under. IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the City of Dubuque, Iowa announced on Sept. 17 a new collaboration aimed at making this community of [...] [...more]

By Susanne Retka Schill An Ohio partnership has declared U.S. Route 33 from Columbus, Ohio, to the Ohio River a Biofuels Corridor. Non-profits Rural Action Inc. and Clean Fuels Ohio along with Hocking College Energy Institute are promoting the use of biodiesel along the highway corridor. The objective is to have at least six retail biodiesel [...] [...more]

IOWA - The Iowa Interstate Railroad in Cedar Rapids, Iowa announced it has commenced testing B10 and B20 biodiesel blends supplied by Renewable Energy Group. As part of the study, REG, IAIS and Kansas University are measuring wear and tear on movable engine parts, horsepower ratings, and emissions. Click here for more information. [...more]

By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel Sept. 9, 2009   A $15 million alternative fuels grant won by Wisconsin recently from the U.S. Department of Energy is the single largest grant awarded across the country, the governor’s office said Wednesday. Click here for more information.  [...more]

A group that touts its efforts to promote “the sustainable production and equitable distribution of energy and food in communities across Minnesota” has issued a report on the renewable fuels used for transportation in this country. The Minnesota Project’s Transportation Biofuels in the United States: An Update, looks at many of the issues regarding biofuels in [...] [...more]

By Kate Galbraith July 10, 2009, 9:17 am Far fewer people have been refueling with high ethanol blends this year in parts of the Midwest.   For more information, click here to read the entire entry. [...more]

by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY Brazil’s widely know for running a whole heck of a lot of cars on sugarcane-based ethanol. There are lot’s of problems to be pointed out in growing it, but sugarcane is one thing that the country definitely has in spades. Which is why Colorado-based Amyris Biotechnologies is opening up a [...] [...more]