Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old
This years scholarship prize of $20,000 of Invent Your World Challenge went to a 15 year old fellow from Texas called Javier Fernández-Han, who proved us all that renewable energy is the way we should direct our creativity upon.
The Sustainer: Solution to Produce Electricity and Fuel in Remote Rural Areas
The Solarix company found a new solution to produce electricity and fuel in remote rural areas.
Innovative Biogas-Powered CHP Network to be Installed in German Town
Lünen, a North Western German town is about to give an example of distributed recycled energy network, by installing a biogas plant to supply 30 to 40% of its energy needs (including heat).
Biofuels Run Your Car 81% Farther If Converted to Electricity
I know my opinion doesn't matter to those who matter, but it rather matters to me and probably to you, my reader. Since I saw what electricity could mean to the car industry and how it can revolutionize the way and what cars consume energy, I totally changed my mind about biofuels and other burnable liquids or solids. They are here, are working, but not for long - at least I hope so.
Melting Plastics in Biodiesel Cleaner Than Recycling Them?
We are used to throwing our garbage in the bin, dispose it, and then forget it (and pay the monthly garbage collecting tax). What we often hear is that piles of garbage have saturated square kilometers in big cities, and that by making us comfortable, the garbage company (and, indirectly, us) pollutes the soil and the environment on a very large scale.
Corn Ethanol Consuming Three Times More Water Than We Thought
More and more research studies show the fact that biofuels, ethanol, and other zero-carbon burning fuels do more damage than they do good in the long run. According to a recent study, it looks like ethanol, the petrol companies' saving field, consumes up to three times more water than it was previously thought, as MIT's Technology Review states.
10% of Scotland's Biofuel to be Algae-based by 2020
Last week Scotland's Energy Minister launched the Biomara research project to study the feasibility of microalgae and seaweed usage as alternative energy in the production of biofuels. This project aligns with the requests of having at least 10% of clean transport energy by 2020. The project is about $8 million (€6 million) worth.
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."
Thermochemical System Combines Production of Ethanol and Thermal Energy
Iowa State University started a new project of developing a thermochemical system that combines production of ethanol and thermal energy. With a low-emission burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production, the technologies use synthesis gas produced from discarded seed corn, switch-grass, wood chips and other biomass.
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.
