Biodiesel – Hormel Black Label Bacon Bike
Biodiesel is what, essentially, but a refined form of some type of heavier vegetable oil, and we’ve heard of biodiesel refined from used French...
Waste Coffee Grounds Can Be Used to Make Biodiesel and Electricity
The American Chemical Society (ACS) 246th National Meeting and Exposition, held between 8th and 12th of September in Indianapolis, yet again impresses the audience...
Algae Biofuel Production Emits More CO2 Than Algae Absorb, Says Study
Biofuels do their job as a carbon-saver only if they swallow more carbon than they emit. Choosing biofuels with a positive carbon output looks to me like wasted money.
Hainan – China’s First Cooking Oil Powered Commercial Flight
Hainan Airlines, China's biggest private airline company, has completed the first for the country commercial flight, powered by biofuel from restaurant left-over cooking oil.
Sure, we...
Salicornia Biofuel for Jet Engines Could Compete With Petrol Fuels and Emit Zero CO2
Salicornia is an alga that grows in salty waters and whose seeds can produce biofuels abundantly. Masdar Institute researchers, along with several companies like Boeing, Etihad Airways, and UOP Honeywell devised a method of growing salicornia for getting biofuels out of it and keeping the CO2 balance in proper equilibrium.
Researchers Make Biofuel From Roadside Weed
US researchers developed a technology, which converts roadside weed into usable biofuel, eliminating the competition for land or food resources.
Biofuels have not always been in...
Indian Researchers Producing Biodiesel from Used Cooking Oil
Researchers from Modern College of Pune, India, produced biodiesel from used cooking oil, which would otherwise be thrown away by the contractor of their...
Generating Biofuel With Bioreactor Made of Recycled Bottles
Michael Fisher has developed a bioreactor using algae to produce oil. What is very interesting about his invention is the bioreactor itself, which is made out of recycled bottles.
Low-Cost Way to Convert Sugarcane Juice into Useful Fuel
The company Amyris Biotechnologies opened a plant in Campanis, Brazil, with a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons a year, to demonstrate large-scale production of hydrocarbons from sugarcane processed using its engineered microbes, which will convert sugarcane into conventional diesel fuel.
Boeing to Make Jet Fuel from Hybrid Tobacco Plants
Growing tobacco is a billion dollar industry, but while producers are happy, millions of people worldwide die from cancer and heart disease due to cigarette...
