Scientists have reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with a substantially better fuel additive called butanol, which some experts regard as “the ...

As U.S. subsidies for ethanol continue to disappear, retrofit installations to produce butanol—touted as a superior fuel with superior financial incentives—are catching on at plants, says butanol ...

Ethanol derived from corn and sugarcane has been a blessing as an additive to transportation fuels, helping to limit pollution and stretch petroleum supplies. One drawback, however, is that the ...

Researchers at the University of Wyoming have been investigating alternative energy sources such as biofuels from renewable biomass sources. Renewable biofuels such as ethanol or n-butanol can be made ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optinol Inc. (www.optinol.com) announced that the company has achieved energy cost parity feasibility with ethanol for the production of bio-butanol (n-butanol) from a ...

An Autopia reader (who hails from my birthplace of Philadelphia) emailed us inquiring about the alternative fuel butanol. I posted an item on it last year, but since then BP has joined the ranks of ...

The fermentative production of butanol offers a promising route towards sustainable biofuels and platform chemicals, harnessing the natural metabolic capabilities of microorganisms, particularly ...

NEW YORK -- DuPont wants to help raise sustainably-farmed salmon by offering them a diet loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that it manufactures from soybeans. The idea: instead of feeding fish other ...

Ethanol derived from corn and sugarcane has been a blessing when it comes to transportation fuels. The millions of gallons of ethanol added to gasoline in the U.S. each year help oxygenate the fuel to ...