Genetically Modified Tobacco Leaves Make Biofuel Efficiently
I've always thought that the best method of quitting smoking was to hit smokers in their pockets first. I'm not a smoker, and I won't ever be. Well, it looks like now tobacco is going into the lion's mouth, the energy field, as Ph.D. Vyacheslav Andrianov, from Jefferson University found a way to boost the production of biofuel from tobacco leaves.
Bacteria Turn Old Newspapers Into Biofuel to Power Cars
There is something sacred about the unique relationship between the morning coffee and the printed newspaper, which no website can recreate. Unfortunately, this comes...
Use of Advanced Biofuels in Petrol Made Compulsory in Italy
Advanced biofuels will have to make up 0.6% of all types of petrol and diesel used to power cars and trucks in Italy as of...
Solazyme’s New Technology Enables Efficient Production of Bio-Oils
Microalgae oil production could receive a well-deserved boost due to recent discoveries made at Solazyme. Researchers developed a method to produce different types of...
Microalgae Biofuel an Alternative to Crop Biofuel
Using crops as a source of energy generated in the past years a great controversy. Once because we could use those crops as food for people and second because we use good agriculture lands to generate energy. But what if we could use an alternative to the crops and use smaller areas of lands to generate the same amount of energy?
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...
Green Overpass Absorbs Traffic Emissions, Turns Them Into Biomass
No city official can now say that there is not enough space for biomass growth in the urban environment. A team of inventors demonstrated...
Suicidal Genetically Modified Cyanobacteria Generating Biofuels
They used cyanobacteria because they are easy to manipulate genetically and have a higher biofuel output capacity than any plant crops currently used to produce fuels.
NASA is Producing Biofuel from Algae Grown in Sewages
NASA has recently been very interested not only in space exploration but as well in the rising energy costs and climate change. NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has developed a system of growing algae in waste-water for the biofuel production.
Biofuel Seeds Increase Pesticide Usage and Chemical Residues in Our Food
An article published last week by a group of health and environmental protection organizations stated that since 1996 till today, the U.S. farmers have increased dramatically the use of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton.
