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.
Whisky-Based Biofuel Could be Used to Power Cars and Planes
Scientists believe biofuel could be available at local garage forecourts alongside traditional fuels since enormous quantities of both waste products are produced by the £4bn whisky industry every year.
Renewable Biomass Creates High Energy Fuels at Gasoline Prices
"Cellulose is the biggest source of sugars on the planet. The difficulty is, it's harder to get at that cellulose and get at those sugars than it is to get the sugars from corn kernels," says Mike Cleary, director of the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Bio-Bug Becomes Britain's First Car to Run on Methane Gas Produced from Human Waste
The team modified a 2 litre VW Beetle convertible to run on both compressed methane gas and conventional fuel. It can also travel 10,000 miles by the power produced from sewage collected from just 70 homes.
Algae Biofuel Produces 4 Times More CO2 Than Regular Diesel, Scientist Reveals
I don't know why, but each time a biofuel solution rises up from the masses of alternative energy sources, later there are news saying biofuel is still more polluting than fossil fuel. Now it's time for algae biofuels to pass through the test of actual "alga-to-wheel" pollution.
Milk Company From Ukraine Producing 1.3 MW of Power With 4,000 Cows And a...
From the former block of communist countries, Ukraine stands up and produces energy from the cow farms they own. The Ukrainian Milk Company Ltd, near Kiev, the country's capital, has just implemented a CHP (combined heat and power) generator powered by 4,000 cows.
Hydrogen-Aided Solar Powered Biofuel Production Process Greatly Reduces Costs
A team of researchers at Purdue University found a new way to expand the biofuel industry by creating a concept for a new production process. Until today, one of the main obstacles has been the cost of transporting large quantities of heavy plant matter to centralized refineries. But thanks to the new process, this problem is now history.
Efficiency of Transforming Biomass Into Biofuel Improved 100% by Dutch Company
Forget killing bacteria to make ethanol or biodiesel, or researching the creation of new lifeforms to do that - the Dutch have a solution. DSM NV, from the Netherlands, have designed a new technology that will improve the conversion efficiency of waste agricultural products (second-generation biofuels) of up to 100%.
Scientists Compartmenting Bacteria to Create Biodiesel and Vaccines
I have always thought that bacteria and genetics are not play with, but it looks like some researchers at the University of Kent and University College Cork have hacked into some simple bacteria's (like e-coli) inner structure and created compartments where they could synthesize biofuels and vaccines.
An Idea to Naturally Harvest Algae for Biofuels By Using Stable Ocean Currents
Here's an interesting idea to cultivate algae that could be transformed into biodiesel. The basic idea is that people should use the stable currents that exist in the Pacific ocean to carry algae from one point to another, time during which the algae should mature with the ocean's support and some slowly-dissolving nutrients that should float along with them.
