In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout ...

A new generation of the HTL process can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil, which is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple thermal upgrade and existing refinery ...

A research team demonstrates that palm-based handicraft processing wastes—specifically tagua nut and bodhi root—can be ...

As a biofuel, ethanol has drawbacks. Conventional engines and infrastructure can corrode when exposed to it. The alcohol can absorb water from the air, reducing its already low energy density and ...

Injecting bio-oil made from corn stalks and forest debris into the deep shafts of abandoned crude oil wells could be a viable form of carbon sequestration, a new Iowa State University study found.

University of Michigan professors are heating and squishing algae in a pressure-cooker that fast-forwards the crude oil making process from millennia to just minutes. It doesn’t have to be algae it ...

Come August, negotiators will congregate in Geneva for yet another round of talks on hammering out a Global Plastics Treaty, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme. They will pick ...