With backing from GM, ethanol start-up hosts a tour of its biotech lab, where scientists are genetically engineering microorganisms that they hope will bring a breakthrough in ethanol production.

The conversion of methanol and ethanol to hydrocarbon fuels has been done for many years. The two dominant pathways are methanol to gasoline (MTG) and ethanol to jet (ETJ), which is also known as ...

General Motors has teamed with Coskata to support its new breakthrough technology that supposedly can make ethanol from practically any renewable source – including garbage General Motors has teamed ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation’s oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew ...

Rice University researchers say that microbes can help us get more biofuel for the buck. Microorganisms can be used to metabolize glycerol--one of the primary byproducts in converting vegetable oil or ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In less than a year, cellulosic ethanol startup ZeaChem has raced through ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A technology that might offer some respite to first-generation ethanol ...

Researchers have developed a new process that could make it much cheaper to produce biofuels such as ethanol from plant waste and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Their approach, featuring an ...

POET will provide first-ever zero-carbon footprint ethanol for NASCAR races. But the company says it only has limited amounts ...