New Biofuel Made out of Plant Cellulose

George Huber of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) and his students Torren Carlson and Tushar Vispute announced the first direct conversion of plant cellulose...

New Revolutionary Recipe For Making Biodiesel In Under 6 Seconds!

Everybody is talking today about a young scientist, Brian Krohn (21), in fact a senior at Augsburg College. He invented a new revolutionary  way...

How to Build a Backyard Biogas Plant

Introduction The success or failure of any biogas plant mainly depends upon the quality of how it is constructed. To construct a good biogas plant,...

New Invention: Bacteria Eating CO2 From The Atmosphere

A scientist who mapped his genome and the genetic diversity of the oceans said Thursday he is creating a life form that feeds on...

Do you agree to genetically mutate trees for ethanol production?

Here we go again. A few weeks ago I wrote an article about some scientists inventing a way to modify the DNA of a...

Nobel Winner Says Biodiesel Production Pollutes More Than Fossil Fuel

Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel...

What Is The Biodiesel?

What is biodiesel? Biodiesel is a fuel derived from vegetable oil or animal fats that can be an additive to or entirely replace conventional petroleum...

Side Effects of Ethanol Use

Ethanol is a promising alternative fuel that, along with improvements in fuel economy and reductions in travel demand, has the potential to help solve...