US start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said.

MUKESH RANJAN
Nitish feels that though ethanol units might not be viable in Maharashtra, in Bihar there is a `business case' for setting up such units
Bihar chief Minister Nitish Kumar has shot off a letter to Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar disapproving his contention that "exclusively ethanol producing units" would not be economically viable.

Pakistan can use its 27million acre of saline lands to cultivate algae, which is the best alternative feedstock to biofuel production, says a researcher at the Mie University of Japan.

Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 24, 2009, 0:05 IST

In response to oil marketing companies

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is likely to shift from fossil fuel to bio-diesel mix by the end of 2010.

Srinivas Sirnoorkar,DH News Service,Gulbarga:

Gulbarga University has become the first university in the State to venture into biofuel production on a demonstrative scale, thus paving way for its commercial production in the future.

Thereby, not only reducing the dependency on petrol and diesel, but also contributing to environment-friendly fuel security.

Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 9, 2009, 0:00 IST

The biodiesel industry has welcomed finance minister

Customs duty cut from 7.5% to 2.5%.
THE FINANCE minister has announced that Customs duty on bio-diesel will be reduced from 7.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent and duty-paid high-speed diesel blended with up to 20 per cent bio-diesel will be fully exempted from excise duties.

The U.S. Energy Department said on Wednesday it will provide up to $408 million in funding for two projects aimed at developing advanced "clean coal" technologies.