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Eco Factor: Low-cost way to convert sugarcane juice into useful fuel. Colorado-based Amyris Biotechnologies opened up a demonstration plant with a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons a year in Campinas, Brazil, to demonstrate large-scale...

A bus company in Sao Paulo has geared up to paint South America's largest city 'green'! It is powering its 1,900 buses -- about a quarter of Sao Paulo's entire bus fleet -- with a new biofuel-n-diesel mix. Hope this effort will not only help curb...

Malaysia launched its B5 palm oil-based biofuel this Tuesday. It is a mixture of 5 percent of processed palm oil and 95 percent of petroleum diesel. The use of bio-fuel may change people's perception of the potential of the oil palm and agro-based...