A Viable Solution to Biofuel Production – Elephant Grass
The amount of biomass from plants used for biofuel is highly dependable on their tolerance to drought. With climate warming at alarming rates, more...
EPA Proposes Reduction in U.S. Biofuel Requirements
When ex-President George W. Bush signed an expansion of The Renewable Fuel Standard program into law, requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons...
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...
More Bioethanol (10%) in UK Petrol – Govt Consultation in Progress
The UK Department for Transport has started a consultation regarding the E10 fuel. The goal is to figure out whether and how it should...
2014 Green Car Technology of the Year Award – The Green Optimistic Picks
January 22, on the second Policy Day at the 2014 Washington Auto Show, Green Car Journal will announce the winner of the 2014 Green...
Discarded Watermelons Could be Used to Make Ethanol
Did you know that up to a fifth of all watermelons grown each summer go discarded, only because of their non-uniform shape? It's not...
Permafrost Bacteria Could Make Biogas Production Available In Colder Regions
People living in warm climates have been used to using biogas since ages, with even the Assyrians using it to heat their baths 3,000 years ago. But in the colder regions such as Alaska, biogas is harder to produce, since temperatures do not allow for bacteria to ferment the organic waste.
Anaerobic Digesters are Profitable for US Livestock Farms
Installing biogas recovery systems in US livestock farms is not only economically profitable, but also helps reducing of greenhouse gas emissions and underground water...
Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old
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.
NIST Invents Breakthrough High Temperature Stable Biodiesel
Biodiesel has recently become a very controversed biofuel. It can be obtained from vegetable oil, animal fats, used cooking oil, microalgae and is a potential replacement of petroleum-based diesel fuel. By doing some research, NIST scientists found out some additives that make biofuels act better at high temperatures.
