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.
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.
New Biofuel Machine Offers Cheap Heating, Cooling and Electricity for Homes
a super efficient system using biofuels has been invented at Newcastle University: it has the power to cool and heat UK homes, besides providing electricity. The system feeds with seeds of the Croton Megalocarpus, a plant with origins in East Africa.
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.
Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation
Baton Rouge, LA (June 27, 2008) â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“ Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry.
Biofuels are Bad for Poor Countries – they Cause Starvation on Long Term
The aid agency Oxfam said Wednesday that the all-beloved biofuels are to be blamed for 30% of the increase in food prices worldwide, pushing 30 million people around the globe into poverty.
New Biofuel Made out of Plant Cellulose
George Huber of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) and his students Torren Carlson and Tushar Vispute announced the first direct conversion of plant cellulose...
New Revolutionary Recipe For Making Biodiesel In Under 6 Seconds!
Everybody is talking today about a young scientist, Brian Krohn (21), in fact a senior at Augsburg College. He invented a new revolutionary way...
New Invention: Bacteria Eating CO2 From The Atmosphere
A scientist who mapped his genome and the genetic diversity of the oceans said Thursday he is creating a life form that feeds on...
