New Invention: Bacteria Eating CO2 From The Atmosphere
A scientist who mapped his genome and the genetic diversity of the oceans said Thursday he is creating a life form that feeds on climate-ruining carbon dioxide to produce fuel.
Craig Venter (in the picture), a famous geneticist, announced his “fourth-generation fuel” project at an elite Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Monterey, California. Between the [...]
Nobel Winner Says Biodiesel Production Pollutes More Than Fossil Fuel
Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel industry, pollutes 70% more than the fossil fuels.
They calculated the emissions released by growing the crops such as maize, rapeseed and cane sugar to produce biofuels. The team of American, British [...]
What Is The Biodiesel?
What is biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a fuel derived from vegetable oil or animal fats that can be an additive to or entirely replace conventional petroleum diesel fuel. In the United States, the majority of biodiesel is made from soybean or canola oils, but is also made from waste stream sources such as used cooking oils or [...]
How to make your own biodiesel
There are at least three ways to run a diesel engine on biofuel using vegetable oils, animal fats or both. All three are used with both fresh and used oils.
* Use the oil just as it is — usually called SVO fuel (straight vegetable oil) or PPO fuel (pure plant oil);
* Mix it with kerosene [...]
The European Biodiesel Production Will Double in Two Years
Although production of biodiesel in Europe has more than doubled in the last two years, urgent market measures are required to create a real market for the fuel quantities being produced, according to the European Biodiesel Board (EBB). Absent those measures, the Board says, production may decline.
Production of biodiesel in Europe jumped 54% in 2006 [...]
