McDonald’s United Arab Emirates (UAE) Division has announced its partnership with Neutral Fuels LLC to begin construction on the UAE’s first licensed biodiesel factory. All vegetable oil from McDonald’s restaurants around the nation will be taken and converted into…

A new jet was revealed at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, which can reportedly reach speeds of 3,125 MPH — or four times the speed of sound! The jet, called ZEHST (for Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation) is a “green” version of the Concorde; powered by a seaweed-based biofuel, along with hydrogen…

The Obama Administration has long been pushing the use of renewable fuels and in an effort to further discourage sole use of oil for transport, the DOE has been authorized to grant up to $36 million for companies which manufacture bio-based products. It will be funding six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. “Projects such as these are helping us to…

As part of the Obama Administration’s comprehensive plan to address rising gas prices, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu have announced a total of $47 million to fund eight research and development projects that will support the production of biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products from a variety of biomass sources. These investments in clean, sustainable transportation fuels will help reduce U.S. oil imports…

Steven Chu of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a development in biofuel production that could forever end America’s dependence on oil. Chu, along with his team of researchers at the DOE’s BioEnergy Science Center, have discovered a cheap and simple technique to convert woody plants into isobutanol, which can be used in any gas-powered automobile. For years now, researchers have been working…