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.

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 ...

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 ...

LAMBERTON, Minn. — A new ethanol plant in Lamberton Township is completing construction and preparing to begin operations. Highwater Ethanol LLC is located just west of Lamberton on U.S. Highway 14.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Inside his bright, new laboratory at the University of Florida, researcher Lonnie Ingram is trying to build a better bug. That's what scientists and others call the microscopic ...

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 A technology that might offer some respite to first-generation ethanol ...

BENSON -- More than a year has passed since the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co., and its partner FrontLine BioEnergy, began the process to be allowed to build a biomass gasifier at the Benson ethanol ...

Ryan Petersen of Okoboji, Iowa, takes a sample from the beer well of the Green Plains Renewable Energy ethanol plant near Superior, Iowa, when the plant first went online in 2008. The sample is taken ...

MADISON -- Mixing up a batch of ethanol from alfalfa or switchgrass isn't nearly as efficient as creating it from corn, but that doesn't mean growing grass crops for fuel won't pay, says Paul Weimer.

RUTLAND (AP) -- The Rutland Redevelopment Authority is planning a feasibility study to see if the city could host a plant to make ethanol out of grass or wood chips. Thomas Macaulay, a former state ...