Archive for category Ethanol

Enerkem Starts Construction of World’s First Garbage To Biofuel Plant

Posted by Mike in Ethanol on September 2, 2010

All the garbage collected from the city of Edmonton can be used to produce biofuel. Last week, the city officials announced that Enerkem, a company based in Montreal began the construction of a $80 million plant that will be capable to turn the town’s landfill into biofuel.

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NASA is Producing Biofuel from Algae Grown in Sewages

Posted by Cristi in Biodiesel, Ethanol on December 28, 2009

NASA has recently been very interested not only in space exploration but as well in the rising energy costs and climate change. NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has developed a system of growing algae in waste-water for the biofuel production.

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E85 Ethanol Increases Pollution and Risk of Human Diseases

Posted by Cristi in Ethanol on December 16, 2009

Researches from Stanford University have recently published a study on ethanol fuel and its influence over human health. Compared to pure gasoline usage, ethanol increases health problems because of cancer-chemical formation.

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Researchers Develop Method of Turning Sewage Sludge into Ethanol

Posted by Mike in Ethanol on October 10, 2009

According to the researchers this new method can reduce the amount of sludge processed by traditional treatment facilities and turn municipal solid waste into a green fuel.

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Alkol’s New System Converts Your Car to Run on E85 in One Hour

Posted by Mike in Ethanol on August 30, 2009

The company Alkol Inc located in Brazil has developed a new system called 1HourFlex that can convert your car to run on any amount of ethanol or gasoline(E85) in less than one hour.

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Juice Extracted from Rotten Watermelons to be Used in Biofuel Production

Posted by Mike in Ethanol on August 28, 2009

Every summer, hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are transformed in garbage because they aren’t good enough for marketplace. A new research says that the juice extracted from these watermelons could be used to the biofuel production.

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Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old

Posted by Cristi in Biogas, Energy news, Ethanol, Ethanol power on June 25, 2009

This years scholarship prize of $20,000 of Invent Your World Challenge went to a 15 year old fellow from Texas called Javier Fernández-Han, who proved us all that renewable energy is the way we should direct our creativity upon.

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Corn Ethanol Consuming Three Times More Water Than We Thought

Posted by Ovidiu in Ethanol on April 16, 2009

More and more research studies show the fact that biofuels, ethanol, and other zero-carbon burning fuels do more damage than they do good in the long run. According to a recent study, it looks like ethanol, the petrol companies’ saving field, consumes up to three times more water than it was previously thought, as MIT’s Technology Review states.

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Thermochemical System Combines Production of Ethanol and Thermal Energy

Posted by Cristi in Ethanol, Ethanol power on March 15, 2009

Iowa State University started a new project of developing a thermochemical system that combines production of ethanol and thermal energy. With a low-emission burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production, the technologies use synthesis gas produced from discarded seed corn, switch-grass, wood chips and other biomass.

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New Catalyst Makes Ethanol Fuel Cells Feasible at Room Temperatures

Posted by Ovidiu in Ethanol, Hydrogen Power on January 26, 2009

I don’t know the solution to the perfect energy equation, but as long as we’re producing CO2 it’s not the final one. Anyway, until a new and better method is found to be feasible enough, this is a good one, too.

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