Researchers are using food waste to produce biofuels and reduce emissions
It's a global problem, focused on developed countries
Tag: biofuel
New ceramic catalyst sponge promises to turn waste organic matter into cheap biofuel, medicine
Don’t throw away that rancid oil, we can top up the car with it!
Biofuels reduce jet engine emissions by as much as 70%, NASA says
The biofuels reduce carbon emissions and the formation of contrails.
Synthetic fuel production may become cheaper after using carbon nanofibers
In transportation, there aren't that many alternative energy sources like in conventional industry, where you can supply a plant or ...
It’s time to rethink misguided policies which promote biofuels
To my constant surprise and dislike, people continue to think of biofuels as a clean, renewable alternative for the future. ...
Panda poop might help biofuel production take a turn for the better
The same organisms that make pandas effective at digesting bamboo may help turn plant waste into ...
Water demand for energy to double by 2035
Water and energy are two of the things we pretty much take for granted - but we shouldn't. Water is ...
Synthetic fuels could eliminate U.S. crude oil addiction and hamper carbon emissions
Over the past few years, a series of papers looked on how the United States could benefit by switching from ...
Genetically engineered microbe turns seaweed into biofuel
US-based scientists have successfully managed to engineer a microbe that reacts with seaweed to produce ethanol, and thus making it ...
Biofuels aren’t so green after all
[caption id="attachment_9970" align="alignnone" width="496" caption="Young oil palm in plantation in Indonesia. The mature plant is used to produce biofuels, an ...
Virgin Atlantic wants to fuel its planes with waste gas by 2014
Part of an amazing initiative to lower its carbon footprint and inspire the rest of the aeronautical industry, billionaire Richard ...
Significant breakthrough in biofuels
I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news ...
Alternative energy could be the key to the economic crisis
With the US economy tanking, natural disasters caused by climate change, several wars being fought in the world and with ...
China will build algae biofuel facility
It seems that China is taking a more and more serious interest in green energy (actually they're taking a serios ...
‘Green Gasoline’ from sugar
This month, two independent teams have announced that they have succesfully converted sugar-potentially derived waste from agriculture and non-food plants ...
Turning waste material into ethanol
Biofuels seems to be the word on everybody's lips today, and for good reason. It's necessary that people understand the ...
Breakthrough in biofuel production process – green gasoline is not that far away
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a significant breakthrough in the development of biofuels ("green gasoline"), a liquid ...
Major advanced in biofuels: trash today = ethanol tomorrow
Researchers from the University of Maryland started researching some characteristics of bacteriae from Chesapeake Bay that could lead to a ...