How to Make Your Own Biodiesel
Regardless of what people say, biodiesel is definitely a much better alternative to any fossil fuel.
Not only that it is much more environmentally friendly,...
Helioculture: Making Biofuel from CO2 by Using Solar Power
California-based startup, Joule Biotechnologies is developing a unique process using solar energy that converts carbon dioxide into liquid biofuel. This new process could yield up to 20,000 gallons of usable fuel per year per acre of land for approximately the same cost as fossil fuels.
The Harriet Gas Turbine – World’s Biggest, Greenest, Most Powerful
Harriet , world's most powerful and most majestic gas turbine, capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes, is now under final testing.
If successful,...
How to Make Biodiesel at Home With Supermarket-Procurable Chemicals
Hailed or blasphemed, the biodiesel is the cheapest and greenest alternative to the driver who doesn't have anything but a diesel-drinking car, vegetable oil,...
Chinese Farmers Paid to Convert Livestock Wastes to Fuel and Fertilizer
China encourages its farmers to develop animal waste processing facilities, which allow conversion of wastes to fertilizer and fuel, by giving them incentives.
This is...
Crude Glycerin from Biofuel Production has Great Unexpected Uses
Glycerin in its pure form is used to manufacture soap, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and many other products, but the crude glycerin is an impure form that is unsuitable for these products. But what if we could use it putting back biodiesel in its correct position of green alternative power source?
Gliocladium Roseum: Rotten Grapes Fungus Produces Diesel
Gliocladium Roseum is a fungus from the Patagonian rainforest, that also grows on wine grapes. It cannot be burned directly, but it seems to produce diesel fuel (or at least molecules found in diesel), out of cellulose.
Adama Kamara's Eco Friendly Stove Uses Biodiesel For Cleaner Cooking
Most people didn't know that cooking on a regular stove can be very harmful for the environment and also for themselves. Using wood, kerosene and coal in your cook stove is not so cheap and more than that, the toxic fume resulted is very dangerous for anyone who inhales it.
Bioplastics Could Have a New Source of Raw Material: Animal Fats
Animal leftovers are a valuable source of fats (carbon-rich organic polymers) that are ideal for the production of bioplastics. This could make the search for...
Kenyan Teenager Builds a Human Poop Bio-reactor to Generate Biogas
Brilliant high school student designed a system that can generate clean energy using the content of his classmates' poop. What is more, this same energy...
