Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that during the first quarter of 2016, just over 1 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol were produced. In fact, production for the ...

An ethanol plant manager in Minnesota once remarked quite seriously that to make as much cellulosic ethanol as the corn ethanol he now distills, he'd need to have a semi-truckload of cellulosic ...

Subsidies intended for next-generation cellulosic ethanol production are to be applied to a trivial improvement to corn ethanol refining technologies. Since cellulosic ethanol qualifies for much ...

Cellulosic ethanol, advanced biofuel made from corn feedstocks was once thought of as the next boon for the ethanol industry but may be on the verge of collapsing due to the slow growth of ...

SPIRITWOOD, N.D.-New Energy Blue LLC is about five months away from finishing engineering and permitting on a $150 million plant project that would turn wheat and corn field residue into ethanol for ...

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2017 - A growing list of companies are signing on to new technology designed to turn waste into fuel aiming to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber, according to ...

Michael Zavrel, a chemical engineer who heads development and biomanufacturing for Clariant’s biotech arm, remembers 2008. He was in the final year of his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and had ...

Dozens of state, local and national leaders gathered in Nevada on Friday to celebrate what DuPont says is the world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant, using corncobs, husks and stalks to eventually ...

In his 2007 State of the Union address, President Bush outlined his plan to reduce the nation's dependency on foreign oil by requiring the production of 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and ...

The failure to commercialize cellulosic ethanol has led many industry players to write off the much-touted advanced biofuel — but not everyone is giving up. Last week, a Detroit Three automaker joined ...

SWITCHGRASS can produce more than enough cellulosic ethanol on a per-acre basis to offset the amount of energy needed to grow and convert the perennial prairie grass into biofuel, according to the ...

Cornell Professor David Pimental is a leading critic of corn-based ethanol, claiming that to power just one automobile for a year requires 11 acres of farmland--enough space to feed a family of seven ...