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65% More Biofuel From Chinese Rice Straw

A team of chinese researchers discovered a way to a new biofuel. Their new study, scheduled for the July 16 issue of ACS' bimonthly journal Energy & Fuels, describes a way to boost production of biofuel from rice straw by almost 65 percent.

Joe Newman's Free Energy Device – Eye Witness News Video

Joe Newman claims for a long time he has succeeded to make a free energy device by using magnets. A lot of people hate...

New Solar Panels: 80% Efficient

A team of scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been developing a brand new solar energy technology that is about to revolutionize the way we collect and distribute solar energy.

Miles XS500: Affordable, Promising Electric Car

Throughout the entire car industry it is now asked the question: who will offer the best affordable electric car, with long lasting and fast charging battery? Miles electric vehicles is about to unleash its full electric car by the end of 2009.

StatoilHydro to Build World’s First Floating Wind Turbine

The Norwegian state oil company StatoilHydro is about to build "Hywind", the world's first functional floating wind turbine, and to test it for two...

New Way of Storing Hydrogen for Vehicles Discovered!

Hydrogen could play a role in replacing fossil fuels for transportation in the future, but researchers must develop a way to store and release...

Cheaper Fuel Cell Material Discovered: 50% more power

Several researchers from the MIT succeeded in making a new kind of fuel cell. This one is a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC), and...

BioWave – free electricity from mimicking sea plants

A long time ago, nature set its oceans and the living things in them. There were plants residing on the bottom of the ocean,...

Solarial: Solar Power for Disasters

I recently found a website providing some design details to make a solar powered balloon, or zeppelin to assist the rescue teams in case of a natural calamity, such as the one in Burma, the earthquake in China, and so on.

Boeing to fly fuel cell powered airplane

I'm in an airport right now, waiting for my plane to get me home. So I looked for green aviation news and found out...