Fuels Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:25:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Heat-Loving Fungi Help Making Biomass-based Fuels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:25:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20650 An international group of scientists have cracked the genetic code of two heat-loving fungi, Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris, and could use their findings for faster and greener development of biofuels derived from biomass. They discovered that the two fungi can accelerate the breakdown of fiber-containing biomass at temperatures between 40 and 70 degrees Celsius. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/feed/ 0 20650 XX55: Military Designed Methanol Fuel Cell Lasting for Weeks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xx55-military-designed-methanol-fuel-cell-lasting-for-weeks-20091008/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xx55-military-designed-methanol-fuel-cell-lasting-for-weeks-20091008/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:26:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4693 The company that produced the XX25 methanol fuel cell we talked about last year, Ultracell, came up with an improved version of it, the XX55. This fuel cell outputs 55watts at 4 amps (10-30 volts), and can last for days or even weeks on a single methane cartridge.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xx55-military-designed-methanol-fuel-cell-lasting-for-weeks-20091008/feed/ 0 4693 Efficient Electricity Production from Onion Juice https://www.greenoptimistic.com/efficient-electricity-production-from-onion-juice-20090726/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/efficient-electricity-production-from-onion-juice-20090726/#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:00:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4109 The future life style is quite different than we could imagine right now. Many experts predict that we will not need to transport our energy around the world as it will be produced in our community.

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