In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuel sources -- by a lot. Using ...

GILFILLAN, Minn. — The Department of Natural Resources owns 4.5 million acres of grasses. As a result, the agency understands biofuels, said DNR biofuels director Mark Lindquist, who spoke at last ...

ARCHIBALD, La. (AP) — An LSU AgCenter forestry researcher is looking at a fast-growing plant called switchgrass as a potential biofuel feedstock. Switchgrass needs little fertilizer and can tolerate ...

The crop, which grows up to 3m (10ft) high, can be made into a biofuel and sold to power stations. The council said the pilot project at a former landfill site at Fiskerton is the first of its kind by ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A small-scale experimental biofuel plant has begun ...

Chang-Jun Liu (left) and Nidhi Dwivedi (right) in the Brookhaven Lab greenhouse with rice plants like those used in this study. “The concept of biomass to biofuel seems simple, but it is technically ...