Airport Grasslands Could Become Great Biofuel Source
Airports... those large, desolating places, with lots of high-potential agricultural areas around the landing runways. Why wouldn't they be used for something? If we...
KLM Turns Recycled Cooking Oil Into Biofuel To Power Airplanes
Dutch airline KLM has recently revealed its plans regarding the use of recycled cooking oil as a biofuel source to power flights to and from France. The company's goal is to reduce the carbon emissions.
Algae-Based Biofuels Not Yet Ready to Compete With Fossil Fuels, Says ExxonMobil
Algae-based fuels are still a very expensive idea and the technology behind their production is not yet ready to compete with fossil fuels, according...
Researchers Making Biofuel Superior to Ethanol from Beer Broth
If you thought beer is only good for drinking - think again. Cornell researchers have discovered how to process beer broth into caproic acid,...
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.
E. Coli Strain Generates Pure BioDiesel Just Like the Real Thing
Biodiesel is becoming more popular as a fuel because it is carbon neutral and fairly easy to manufacture.
Unfortunately, because it doesn't contain the same...
Wood Waste Converted to Biofuel by Fast Pyrolysis
Pulp and paper company Domtar from Montreal and Battelle, an independent research and development specialist in Columbus, Ohio chose Domtar’s mill operations in Dryden, Ontario...
Biofuel Companies Miss the Point, Turn to Natural Gas
What is the point of biofuels development, except to eliminate carbon-dioxide emissions? Basically speaking, biofuels emit the same amount of CO2 during combustion...
EPA Proposal Puts Biofuels on Hold
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act was meant to put biofuels, especially ethanol, into a more important role in the United States fuel...
Coffee Grounds Can Be Used to Create Nice Smelling Biodiesel
Nevada researchers have recently found out that waste coffee grounds can be used to create biodiesel. Mano Misra, Susanta Mohapatra, and Narasimharao Kondamudi discovered that spent coffee grounds contain 11 to 20% oil by weight, as much as traditional biodiesel sources of palm, rapeseed or soybean oil.
