LanzaJet aims to power planes without petroleum. Its first plant got caught up in politics—forcing a sudden retooling before ...

It took the 1970s oil crisis for Brazilian dictators to impose ethanol as a way of avoiding oil dependency. Although the idea was relatively popular, other countries still debate if using crops makes ...

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.

Honeywell and Summit Agricultural are partnering to build the world’s largest plant making ethanol-based aviation fuel – a project that is likely to become a $1 billion facility and expected to open ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- World demand for fuel and food is projected to double in the next 50 years. Now, researchers have concluded that corn may not be up to the task of filling both stomachs and gas tanks.

STANLEY, Wis. (WEAU) - The harvest season for many area farmers is wrapping up according to this week’s USDA report with 78% of corn for grain is complete. 37% of the corn grown in Wisconsin is used ...

FARGO, N.D -- With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has ...

Melissa Block talks with Daniel Yergin, chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, about the rise of Brazil's sugar-based ethanol industry. Yergin says rising oil prices and the ...

CHICAGO — General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that half its U.S. vehicle volume will run on ethanol by 2012, just as partner Coskata Inc. is expected to be ramping up ethanol production. In a speech ...

The facts about the true value of ethanol are finally getting out. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has released a report stating that the worldwide investments in producing ...

Ethanol--alcohol produced from corn or other plants--is more energy-efficient than some experts had realized, and it is time to start developing it as an alternative to fossil fuels, researchers said ...

Ethanol has less energy than gasoline, but it can make so much more horsepower! Ethanol contains less energy than gasoline, ...