The world’ top ethanol producer and exporter makes an appeal to automakers: produce more flex-fuel vehicles.

A research team from the University of Central Florida has recently made a breakthrough discovery: using tobacco to produce enzyme that can convert orange peels to alternative fuel.

Fuel now grows on trees.

Yes, you’ve read it right. Research teams from the University of Maryland’s College Park and Bowie State were awarded a $3.2-million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation’s Plant Genome Research Project to develop a technology that can convert a hybrid of poplar trees to alternative fuel.

Heeding President Obama’s call to use biofuels and other clean coal technologies, two companies are now in the race to develop measures on how they can turn government paper wastes to fuel.

Novozymes of Denmark and Fiberight from Maryland have recently presented demonstration drives around Washington to showcase the feasibility and performance of “trashanol”. The two companies used the said alternative fuel to power a flex-fuel Chevy HHR and a flex-fuel Ford F150. Novozymes and Fiberight collaborated on the development of the technologies and procedures that will turn thousands of pages of government documents to biofuel.

The World Bank has notched an emission reduction purchase agreement with the Land Bank of the Philippines last January. The said agreement is worth 2.4 million Euros (USD 3.5 million). It involves a project that will reduce the methane emissions coming from landfills and livestock farms.