In Texas, a recent Texas A&M AgriLife Research study will be published in the BioEnergy Research journal, outlining how mesquite, growing in abundance in some regions of the southwest, could fit into the overall picture for bioenergy. The paper is based on the study, Economic and Greenhouse Gas Efficiency of Honey Mesquite Relative to Other […]
In Texas, A recent Texas A&M AgriLife Research study is outlining the potential of mesquite as a cellulosic biofuels feedstock. The study, Economic and Greenhouse Gas Efficiency of Honey Mesquite Relative to Other Energy Feedstocks for Bioenergy Uses in the Southern Great Plains,” is available from Texas AgriLife. Mesquite has a higher energy density per […]
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 […]
In Oman, students at University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Muscat have developed biodegradable fishing line from Prosopis juliflora tree, an invasive species more commonly known as mesquite or marine Ghaf. They also founded a startup, called Hyaal, to scale up and commercialize the fishing line. “The idea came with the aim of creating […]
In Texas, bioplastics—biodegradable plastics made from biological substances rather than petroleum—can be created in a more economical and environmentally friendly way from the byproducts of corn stubble, grasses and mesquite agricultural production, according to a new study by a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist. This new approach involves a “plug-in” preconditioning process, a simple adjustment […]
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 […]
