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Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could help make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

But before these next - generation biofuels go mainstream, they have to compete with oil at $ 60 a barrel

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

Scientists at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.

A recent study from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and published in Environmental Research Letters looks at how efficiently «second generation» biofuel crops — perennial, non-food crops such as switchgrass or native grasses — use rainwater and how these crops affect overall water balance.

Prior to joining IDRI in 2013, Shilah worked at Portland State University as a Postdoctoral Scientist studying the metabolic pathways and enzymes involved in the generation of natural products (drug discovery) and olefins (biofuels development).

This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next - generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.

The authors added, «[O] ur analysis shows that carbon releases from the soil after planting corn for ethanol may in some cases completely offset carbon gains attributed to biofuel generation for at least 50 years.»

«Depending on prior land use, our analysis shows that carbon releases from the soil after planting corn for ethanol may in some cases completely offset carbon gains attributed to biofuel generation for at least 50 years,» they note.

At present, bioethanol is the second - generation liquid biofuel closest to commercialization.

In that capacity, he helped manage the largest program in the world for working with businesses to develop and use advanced transportation and clean energy technologies — $ 1 billion aimed at energy efficiency, hybrid vehicles, electric batteries, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, renewable energy, distributed generation, and biofuels.

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

Providing consulting services to a large global alternative energy distributor, assisting them at customer generation and entrance into the US biofuel marketplace.