Agricultural Waste Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:06:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Agricultural Waste Biofuel Now a Reality, Thanks to Yeast https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agricultural-waste-biofuel/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agricultural-waste-biofuel/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:06:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54120 Agricultural plant waste could be turned into sustainable biofuel a new study from the University of East Anglia has found. The study investigated over 70 different strains of yeast and has found five different strains of yeast can turn straw, cereal stalks and even corncobs into bioethanol, an alcohol based biofuel. Bioethanol can be mixed […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agricultural-waste-biofuel/feed/ 0 54120 Bioplastics Made from Parsley Stems and Rice Hulls Reduce Both Bio- and Plastic Waste https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bioplastics-made-parsley-stems-rice-hulls-reduce-bio-plastic-waste-20140901/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bioplastics-made-parsley-stems-rice-hulls-reduce-bio-plastic-waste-20140901/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:32:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49061 Plastic pollution has reached incredible levels in a space of just a decade or so. Not only that people’s careless waste disposal behaviour has led to the formation of the huge Pacific Garbage Patch, but also the actual process of plastic production adds additional chemical pollutants to the ecosystems. Italian scientists, however, think that bioplastics made […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bioplastics-made-parsley-stems-rice-hulls-reduce-bio-plastic-waste-20140901/feed/ 0 49061 Pyrolysis Oil Obtained from Agricultural and Forestry Waste https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pyrolysis-oil-biomass-20100906/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pyrolysis-oil-biomass-20100906/#respond Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:02:31 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=9979 Researchers at the University of Twente have recently discovered one of the cheaply and efficiently method to convert biomass from agricultural and forestry waste into oil.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pyrolysis-oil-biomass-20100906/feed/ 0 9979 Minesotta turning biomass into hydrogen https://www.greenoptimistic.com/minesotta-turning-biomass-into-hydrogen-20080130/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/minesotta-turning-biomass-into-hydrogen-20080130/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:02:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/01/30/minesotta-turning-biomass-into-hydrogen/ An efficient, super-fast new method of turning waste biomass into hydrogen has been developed by scientists in Minnesota, US. The researchers say it could help significantly reduce many nations’ dependence on fossil fuels. Hydrogen represents a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels but is both costly and dangerous to transport, leading many to argue that it […]

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