ethanol

Rocket startup Skyrora shifts production to hand sanitizer and face masks for coronavirus response

One of the newer companies attempting to join the rarified group of private space launch startups actually flying payloads to orbit has redirected its entire UK-based manufacturing capacity towards CO

CO2-based vodka startup Air Co. fully redirects its tech to making hand sanitizer for donation

A NYC-based startup that developed technology that extracts carbon dioxide from the air and combines it with water to create vodka has redirected its entire production capacity toward producing hand s

Through a new partnership and $72 million in funding, LanzaTech expands its carbon capture tech

For nearly 15 years LanzaTech has been developing a carbon capture technology that can turn waste streams into ethanol that can be used for chemicals and fuel. Now, with $72 million in fresh funding a

We go lips on with the PicoStill’s ‘delightful’ gin

When PicoBrew announced its PicoStill, a $249 distilling add-on to its Pico C brewing system, I was nonplussed. How could you produce good whiskey or gin in a compact system? Well you can. Since then

U.S.D.A. Giving INEOS Bio $75 Million Loan To Make Ethanol From Waste

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ineosbio-logo.png" class="shot2"></img> INEOS New Planet BioEnergy — a joint venture between the biofuels division of the chemicals company

BP Buys Verenium's Biofuel Business For $98 Million

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/verenium.gif"> As oil continues to spill in the Gulf of Mexico, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/british-petroleum">BP</a> is looki

Video: How wood chips or tires are converted into Ethanol fuel

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/woodchips.JPG"><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/ethanol/">Ethanol fuel</a> was always a mystery to me. Really, I never took the tim

Beer fuels you, left over beer fuels your car

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/beer-fuel-01.jpg" />Beer, the third most popular beverage in the world after water and tea, just gained another reason for our support. S

New method enhances efficiency in ethanol production

Professor Michikazu Hara, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has created an inexpensive substance, which can boost the efficiency of ethanol production. Reportedly, the costs of produci

Going green: So, is biofuel actually in our best interests?

Using excess or leftover corn as a fuel source sure sounded like a good idea, especially here in the U.S. Let’s get our farmers from, I don’t, Iowa, to set aside a certain percentage of ar

Yum, self-digesting corn creates delicious ethanol

First of all, I think it should be said that the whole corn-as-fuel idea is a red herring when it comes to alternative energy. The corn industry is a bloated mess and throwing the demands of widesprea