Biodiesel in India: The Jatropha fiasco

Several factors have led to slow progress in the country’s biodiesel development programme, nbotably, the Jatropha plant

India's ethanol equation

Ethanol blending in petrol is an effective way of increasing domestic petrol availability and for that, all-round efforts need to be made to …

Bacteria can breakdown biodiesel waste into useful products

Indian scientists have developed a technique to breakdown glycerol into commercially-useful products using bacterial strains

Ethanol, other biofuels will see reduced demand in 10 years

Declining demand for transport fuel will lead to reduced demand for ethanol in the US and EU—main markets for ethanol

The new Money plant

The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India's burgeoning oil import bill. And …

New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner

Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel

Botanical gardens failed to conserve threatened plants despite Rs 48 crore budget: CAG report

‘Unfruitful’ expenditure of Rs 73.35 lakh on demonstration project by MoEF&CC observed

India’s sustainable jet fuel may get internationally certified in 2023

Researchers believe inadequate feedstock collection mechanisms and a lack of refineries could prevent its mass scaling

Taxing green

Gujarat game

Fat to fuel

Biodiesel tango

TERI, British Petroleum develop interest in wastelands

Biodiesel portal

Cars prefer organic fuel

Grease to Greece

Cheap catalysts

To produce biodiesel

Biodiesel bus fleet

Introduced in Pimpri, Maharashtra

Boom means bust for Brazil's workers

Mercy of a toxic plant

Jatropha can offer relief from pain without side effects

Sugar for oil

Energy crisis jacks up prices, creates supply problems

Jatropha fever

Why is the Chhattisgarh government promoting a poisonous and invasive plant?

Green fuel

Biodiesel on the anvil in India

Gujarat game

Glycerin will be future chickenfeed

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