Tag: Biofuel
Initial field test results on GM poplars: bioethanol yield is almost doubled
Initial field test results GM poplars: bioethanol yield almost doubled 19/05/2011 VIB News, Belgium Nancy, France, May 19, 2011 – The yield of bio-ethanol from the wood of GM poplar trees from a VIB field trial is up to 81% higher than non-modified poplars VIB-UGent researcher Wout Boerjan presented these results at the international conference…
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Biofuel beefed up by Biotech
Vilsack clears industrial biotech cornDes Moines Register Blog.1:30 PM, Feb 11, 2011 | by Philip Brasher |Agriculture and Alternative Energy Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has approved a biotech corn variety that was engineered solely for producing fuel ethanol. Companies that mill corn for breakfast cereals and other foods have been fighting the move for fear…
What Everyone Needs to Know about the Economics and Politics of Food, and Even More
The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fuelling the Planet Effects Food Prices.(Link to Amazon entry)Patrick Westhoff. FT Press ( Financial Times, Pearson Education Ltd), New Jersey 2010.ISBN – 10: 0 – 13 – 700610 – 1ISBN – 13: 978 – 0 – 13 – 700610 – 6 Patrick Westhoff is an experienced agricultural economist…
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Regulations killing biofuel innovation
Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations: studyOctober 1, 2010 Physorg.ComFaster development of the promising field of cellulosic biofuels – the renewable energy produced from grasses and trees – is being significantly hampered by a “deep and thorny regulatory thicket” that makes almost impossible the use of advanced gene modification methods, researchers say.