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...
Study Claims EU Biofuel Plan Only Benefits Big Bosses, Not The Environment
In its plan to increase biofuel share to 10% by 2020, the European Union (EU) seems to favor the interests of profit-minded big industrial...
High Yield Biobutanol Production via Engineered Microbes
Clostridium acetobutylicum, the biocatalyst in biobutanol production from biomass
As scientists and researchers earnestly delve for the most environmentally sound source of energy, that is,...
University of Texas Doubles Electricity Output of Landfill
Landfills are not just an eyesore, but also produce methane as their contents decompose. Methane is a greenhouse gas, and if not recovered,...
Nobel Laureate and Photosynthesis Expert Hartmut Michel Says Biofuels Provide No Value
Nobel Laureate and current director of the Molecular Membrane Biology department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Dr. Hartmut Michel is best known...
Carbon Neutral Methane Obtained Cheaply From CO2 and Water
We all know most of world's greatest inventions have been made by mistake. A team of researchers from the Penn State, led by Bruce E.Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, discovered how to produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Here's what he says: "We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane. We may now understand why."
New Type of Sand to Store Methane Safely and Efficiently
Hydrogen gas is the most clean-burning gas known to man. Yet methane, even if it's a sibling of petrol, got its way through the alternative fuels industry, and it is more widely used nowadays, as fuel prices oscillate between skyscrapers and small houses. Methane is also one of the cleanest burning fuels, and that makes it viable for a while. Methane reservoirs still exist all around the world, and there's plenty of it to help make a clean transition to hydrogen.
Chocolate Factory Helps Environment to Have a Break
A chocolate factory in the United Kingdom has been running a 200 kW generator for at least a year now by feeding it candy. ...
Hell's Gate in Turkmenistan: Burning Precious Energy for Nothing Since 1971
This hole (initially a gas-filled cave) has been named "Hell's Gate", for obvious reasons. It was discovered when some geologists have been searching for natural gas, in Turkmenistan's Karakum desert, in Darvasa. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 50-100 meters.
First Biogas Plant That Runs on Waste Biomass Feedstocks
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have recently developed a biogas plant that utilizes waste materials such as corn stalks and other agricultural waste.
