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Flying From Frankfurt to Hamburg, With or Without Biofuels, Hard to Justify on Environmental Grounds

2:20 pm in agriculture, air travel, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, renewable energy by TreeHugger

lufthansa A321 photo photo: Marcus Bölt/Creative Commons Today is the day! As I reported last week Germany airline Lufthansa has now begun using biofuels on about one-third of its flights from Frankfurt to Hamburg. The fuel is supplied by Finland's Neste Oil and until now, apart from officially not containing palm oil (phew!), the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seaweeds Could be a Source of Next-Gen Biofuels

4:31 pm in alternative energy, biofuels, Cars & Transportation, transportaton by TreeHugger

kelp-seaweed-fuel-photo Photo: Wikipedia, CC Offshore Wind Farms Might be Best Place to Grow Seaweed 'Farms' Biofuels made with food crops are generally a bad idea. By competing with food production for land, they increase the price of many commodities which are already expensive for the poorest people on Earth. This is so bad that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has released a warning that U.S. and European policy to increase the production of biofuels Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Gets $105m Loan Guarantee From DoE

12:00 pm in alternative energy, biofuels, ethanol, renewable energy, united states by TreeHugger

via internet science tech If it seems like you've read a variation of the above headline before you're not wrong, and as much as anything it's a sign of the rock road cellulosic ethanol and biofuels in general have had in the past few years. The details: The Department of Energy has given a $105 million loan guarantee to POET to build what hopes to be the first commercial-scale cellulosi...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lufthansa Will Become First Airline Using Biofuels On A Commercially Scheduled Route

10:40 am in air travel, airlines, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, carbon emissions, renewable energy by TreeHugger

lufthansa airbus a321 photo photo: Andres Rueda/Creative Commons Lufthansa looks set to make aviation history: Using biofuels on a regularly scheduled route. From July 15, one Lufthansa Airbus A321 will ply the 244 miles route from Frankfurt to Hamburg with one engine burning petroleum-based fuel and the other burning biofuel supplied by Finland's Neste Oil. Eight of the airlines' daily 28 flights on the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Stirling Biomass Gassification Engine in Action (Video)

11:30 am in biofuels, Business & Politics, clean energy by TreeHugger

stirling-biomass.jpg This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ...Image courtesy of Stirling.DK The Stirling Engine is a small-scale generator that converts biomass (wood chips) into electricity and heat. It's designed to power mid-sized buildings, like schools or hospitals, and small communities with low ene...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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KLM Completes First Biofuel-Powered Scheduled Flight, With Factory Farmed Fuel

12:02 pm in air planes, alternative energy, animal rights, aviation, biofuels, farming, Food & Health, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger

KLM plane wing photo photo: James Lin/Creative Commons Definite mixed environmental messages here: KLM has announced that it has completed the first biofuel-powered scheduled flight. Good, no, great. Decidedly less great, bad even: The fuel used on the flight, from the Netherlands to Paris, was made by Dynamic Fuel...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Honeywell Schedules First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Biofuels Flight

9:10 am in air planes, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, renewable energy by TreeHugger

gulfstream g450 photo: Kentaro Iemoto/Creative Commons An important milestone in aviation biofuels: Honeywell has scheduled for today the world's first trans-Atlantic non-stop jet flight powered by biofuel. Flying between Morristown, New J...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Flying With Fossil Fuels May Sometimes Be Greener Than Biofuels – At Least In Extreme Examples

11:28 am in airplanes, alternative energy, biofuels, carbon emissions, renewable energy by TreeHugger

flying photo photo: Will Luo/Creative Commons For anyone that's paid attention to the world of biofuels, specifically the impact that land-use changes and cultivation method can have on lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, this won't come as a shock: New research in Environmental Science and Technology shows that in extreme cases burning fossil fuels in airplanes may be the greener choice than biofuels. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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