Marginal Lands Deemed Perfect for Sustainable Bioenergy Production
Last week, University of Maryland faculty members and a Ph.D. student from U of M’s Department of Geographical Sciences published research detailing the possibility...
Korean Seaweed Biofuel not Using Usable Lands for Crops
Today, most of the liquid biofuels are sugar or starch based and are obtained from crops of sugar beet, sugar cane, potatoes or corn. A problem in the future could be the lack of lands. These crops use good lands on which food can grow instead. An idea to decrease use of proper agricultural lands would be to use the unproductive lands to obtain biofuels.
Toyota Prius Converted to Run on Ethanol
Recently inspired by public demand and by the conversions made by third party companies to make it a plug-in hybrid, Toyota seriously intends to equip their cars with various fueling systems, so you can charge the batteries at night.
The MicroFueler – cheap ethanol energy source at your door
I guess everybody's complaining about the skyrocketing oil prices these days. This trend is expected to be worse, and it's expected to reduce the...
Japanese Researchers Find Ways To Produce Biobutanol More Efficiently
Butanol can be made greener by the research of a Japanese institute, who developed an energy-saving biobutanol with a density of at least 80 percent. They derived their biobutanol from a 1 percent concentrated butanol and used a zeolitic separation membrane.
Orange County Choppers' Green Ethanol Bike
The "Iowa Farm Bureau Renewable Energy Chopper" is a good example of how eco-friendly fuel can power great, sexy rides. The green low-rider motorcycle...
New Ethanol Conversion to Deliver More Energy
Researchers have found a new method of ethanol conversion that may be applied to the development of renewable fuels.
Ethanol, a corn-based product, is traditionally...
Enerkem Starts Construction of World's First Garbage To Biofuel Plant
All the garbage collected from the city of Edmonton can be used to produce biofuel. Last week, the city officials announced that Enerkem, a company based in Montreal began the construction of a $80 million plant that will be capable to turn the town's landfill into biofuel.
E85 Ethanol Increases Pollution and Risk of Human Diseases
Researches from Stanford University have recently published a study on ethanol fuel and its influence over human health. Compared to pure gasoline usage, ethanol increases health problems because of cancer-chemical formation.
Juice Extracted from Rotten Watermelons to be Used in Biofuel Production
Every summer, hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are transformed in garbage because they aren't good enough for marketplace. A new research says that the juice extracted from these watermelons could be used to the biofuel production.
