Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Biobutanol is four-carbon alcohol derived ...

There is more corn grown in the United States used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed. Yet, ethanol arguably has a demand constraint: the so-called "blend wall," and government ...

A close chemical relative of the fuel in butane cigarette lighters may be what helps keep air travel viable in a post-petroleum world. As affordable petroleum becomes scarcer, it’s easy to imagine ...

Four years ago, Dan Bird and Dick Arnold stood in an office within a 125-year-old paper mill and looked out the window to an empty plant. The room, once the controller’s office of previous occupant ...

Dublin, Dec. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Biobutanol Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2021-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A next-generation biofuels company says it’s suspending plans to produce isobutanol from corn at its Minnesota plant and will instead make ethanol in the near term while it ...

Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes ...

Green technologies such as biofuels are great, but if they can't scale -- technically and economically -- they're dead in the water. The companies plan to build the world's first industrial-scale ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- All of a sudden, everybody hates ethanol. Among the criticisms: Ethanol takes more energy to produce than it yields ... it can't be easily shipped ... it's driving up the ...