California Egg Farm Installs Chicken Poo-Powered Fuel Cell
FuelCell Energy, one of the companies promoting alternative energy sources, announced the sale of a chicken poo-powered fuel cell to an egg farm in California. The 1.4-megawatt fuel cell system will produce enough energy to supply the farm's operations.
Pure Green Energy From Cow Farms
Some Washington University engineers using an advanced imaging technology found out that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into a source of alternative...
Kenyan Teenager Builds a Human Poop Bio-reactor to Generate Biogas
Brilliant high school student designed a system that can generate clean energy using the content of his classmates' poop. What is more, this same energy...
The Harriet Gas Turbine – World’s Biggest, Greenest, Most Powerful
Harriet , world's most powerful and most majestic gas turbine, capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes, is now under final testing.
If successful,...
Photobioreactor Will Provide Cheap and Efficient Energy Storage
Algae-based biofuel research was granted $910,000 to develop a bioreactor that will deliver light and collect fuel. The winning team from Cornell University consists...
Dutch Company Generates Cow-Manure Power to 1,100 Homes
I have been to the Netherlands this summer, in my honeymoon. While you travel down their free and super-strictly speed limited highways (120km/h), you'll see a lot of cows on the left... and on the right (the pic above is taken by my wife).
Genetically Modified E.Coli Generate Renewable Propane
Bio-engineering techniques are rapidly becoming a very powerful tool for scientists to make bacteria produce virtually anything. The latest invention comes from a Finnish...
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...
Green Alga Digests Cellulose, Improves Bioenergy Production
Research team at Bielefeld University, led by Professor Dr. Olaf Kruse, has discovered a plant, which receives its energy not only via photosynthesis, but...
UK Researchers Use Bacteria to Generate Hydrogen from Landfills
As you already know, Earth's ecosystems are in a closed-loop. Researchers from the University of Birmingham have created a closed loop hydrogen energy eco-system based on two types of bacteria and a twist of fuel cell technology. How did they do that?