Landfill Biogas Fully Powers Monterrey’s City Lights
A great example of how biogas can be successfully converted to electricity and power the lights of an entire city, is given by the...
Audi’s Synthetic Fuel Produced With Solar and Wind Power
Audi is set to release a number of natural-gas powered vehicles this year, such as the Audi A3 Sportback TCNG. It can run...
Bacteria Could Make Sewage Treatment Plants Turn From High Energy Consumers to Producers
Sewage treatment plants always consume energy to filter water (around 44 watt-hours per day per person). They use three types of bacteria and energy to pump oxygen for the first type of bacteria and methanol for the second. Adding the fact that methanol is also produced through an energy-intensive process... you can pull the conclusions.
65% More Biofuel From Chinese Rice Straw
A team of chinese researchers discovered a way to a new biofuel. Their new study, scheduled for the July 16 issue of ACS' bimonthly journal Energy & Fuels, describes a way to boost production of biofuel from rice straw by almost 65 percent.
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...
Algae into Biocrude – The Quick Method
Crude oil reserves around the world were formed millions of years ago as ancient microorganisms, such as algae and plankton, died and sank to...
Didcot, UK, Heated by Odorless Human Waste Biogas
Approximately 200 households in the town of Didcot, UK now benefit from gas produced out of human waste. Despite being generated at a sewage station, the gas is highly purified and has no odor.
Princeton University Study Claims Synfuels Could Eliminate US Petroleum Needs
One of the goals of some synfuel programs is, not only to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, but to reduce our dependency on foreign petroleum imports....
New Sources of Combustible Ice Could Power China for 90 Years
China has recently discovered major deposits of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. According to the researchers, this new source of low-emission fuel could power China for 90 years.
Iowa Engineers Convert Cellulosic Biomass to SynGas Using Pyrolysis-Gasification
A huge renewable energy project is currently conducted and making its way in Iowa State University that utilizes cellulosic biomass as sources of synthesis...
