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Texas researchers look at switchgrass, mesquite and redberry juniper biofuels

Texas researchers look at switchgrass, mesquite and redberry juniper biofuels

June 8, 2012 |

In Texas, one team at Texas AgriLife Research is investigating the use of up to 60 million acres of (otherwise useless) mesquite and redberry juniper from southern Great Plains states into bio-based precursor gases. A second team has landed a $500,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant to investigate the impact of a change from […]

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AIMPLAS project assesses cultivation of biobased feedstocks on marginal land

AIMPLAS project assesses cultivation of biobased feedstocks on marginal land

July 24, 2023 |

In Europe, a multi-institute project evaluating the use of marginal land to cultivate trees and shrubs for use as feedstocks for bioplastics, biochar, and pet litter has achieved “promising results.” The group assessed growth of Siberian elm, common juniper, hoary rock-rose, rosemary, birch, common broom, blackwood acacia, mora, common hornbeam and black poplar across six […]

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Krispy Kreme and Ethical Spirits team up to produce doughnut gin

Krispy Kreme and Ethical Spirits team up to produce doughnut gin

June 19, 2023 |

In Tokyo, craft gin maker Ethical Spirits has formed an unlikely partnership with Krispy Kreme doughnut chain to produce gin. Called Little Joy Spirits, the gin is produced by distilling leftover dough and glaze from producing Krispy Kreme’s famous, melt-in-your-mouth glaze doughnut with more traditional gin ingredients, including shikwasa, Valencia oranges, juniper berries, angelica root, […]

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The 101 Hottest Biofuels Feedstocks : The Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

The 101 Hottest Biofuels Feedstocks : The Digest’s 5-Minute Guide

January 28, 2014 |

Tired of corn, corn, corn or cane, cane, cane? There are 101 feedstocks in the biofuels canon. Here’s what’s up with each of them, and all of them. In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its annual Guide to biofuels feedstocks, tracking 10,658 items published in the Digest in the past 48 months on 101 feedstocks for […]

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Did little algae freedom fighters win the Cold War?

Did little algae freedom fighters win the Cold War?

March 19, 2013 |

MOSCOW — It was the evening of the day in 1990 that Saddam Hussein rolled his tanks into Kuwait, igniting the First Gulf War. I was camped out in the cafeteria at the Cosmos Hotel, north of Moscow’s center, watching the one working television and waiting for Gorbachev to make a statement on the invasion. […]

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