Chemistry for a sustainable world

What is a plug-in hybrid? It is a car that runs on electricity via a battery that you can charge by plugging into a regular electrical outlet. These cars, being hybrids, also have gas tanks that can be used to power the car and recharge the battery, giving you what some might call the [...]

I have discussed biofuels, and especially bioethanol from corn, in quite a few posts so far. Some of the discussion has centered on promising (old and new) approaches to biofuels, which I believe include:

Biodiesel from waste (fish oil, cooking oil and other sources)
Ethanol (bioethanol) from agricultural waste (specifically not from food products)
Metabolic engineering [...]

With thanks to George L. in St. Louis for the heads up, here is what The Economist has to say (in regard to US corn-ethanol efforts):
“Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong”
The article does not dismiss all bioenergy, and it reports on new research and [...]