Climate Change ends up focusing on the energy sector and with India poised to grow exponentially in the coming decades, the need of the hour is not to abstain from using energy but to use it efficiently, so as to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The US President, Mr Barack Obama, today highlighted the need to develop biofuels out of things that do not involve fuel chain, arguing that increase in demand from India and China would drive up t
The emergence of biofuel as a renewable energy source offers opportunities for climate change mitigation and greater energy security for many countries. At the same time, biofuel represents the possibility of substitution between energy and food.
Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil company, plans to almost triple its share of the country’s ethanol production by 2015, staking its claim to one of the world’s leading alternative energy markets.
Energy efficiency analysis for different biomass-utilization scenarios would help make more informed decisions for developing future biomass-based transportation systems.
The Energy Department plans to provide a $105 million loan guarantee for the expansion of an ethanol factory in Emmetsburg, Iowa, that intends to make motor fuel from corncobs, leaves and husks.
Experts say that the new factory, being built by POET, a major producer of ethanol derived from corn kernels, could be the first commercial-scale plant to make ethanol from a nonfood, or cellulosic, pla
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to decide the final price of ethanol for blending in petrol to ensure smooth supply of the product during the 2011-12 season.
In August last year, the government had fixed an interim price of Rs 27 a litre for ethanol under the Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) for mandatory blending of 5% ethanol with petr
