Tag: Biofuels - Page 6
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How To Discuss Getting Off Oil Without Politics: Renewable Energies For Your Home (Book Review)
Much of Russel Gehrke's Renewable Energies for your Home is a useful compendium of information for people who want to build a solar dryer or make biodiesel without killing yourself. There is a neat design for a quick and easy solar heater made out of
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French Towns Establish Horse-Drawn Recycling
There's a lot to be said for horses as a greener form of transportation. In many ways, they are the ultimate use of biofuels—they run on grass, and their output is a biodegradable fertilizer. In fact, TreeHugger has been asked
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Palm Oil Plantations on Peat Soil No Longer Qualify for Clean Development Mechanism Carbon Credits
Good that this loophole's been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils--those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture
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Researchers Create Fuel Cell Powered by Rat's Blood
French researchers have created a fuel cell powered by rat blood that is more powerful and smaller than current pacemaker batteries.
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The Growing Potential and Rooted Limitations of Biofuels
As oil and natural gas reserves are being depleted, the world's attention is increasingly turning to plant-based energy sources. These include food crops, forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts,
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UK Biofuels Target Should Be Reduced to Protect Tropical Forests: Government Climate Advisors
The UK government's own climate advisors have recommended that current biofuel
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Biofuels Falling Well Short of Green Standards in UK
Now that we've got some distance from the 'biofuels are going to save us, oh wait they're going to kill everything else' hysteria of a couple years back and some sane skepticism has emerged, how well are we doing? As
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Whisky Biofuel Available in a Few Years: 30% More Power Than Ethanol
The food versus fuel debate already has many people worried that we can't feed the world and power our cars. but some folks are claiming we can power (some of) our cars, feed the world and have a drink in the
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For One Biochemist, Ben Franklin and Butter Inspired Biodiesel
It was an 800-pound butter sculpture of Ben Franklin that led researchers to decide dairy-to-diesel was even a possibility, according to this report in the New York Times.
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This Car Runs on Poop: The Bio Bug
TreeHugger has talked a lot about the power of poo over the years, and with sewage-powered robots and microbial fuel-cells fast becoming a reality, it's definitely time we rethink our attitude to human waste. But this might be the
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Self-Sustaining Robot Powered by Sewage
Forget those Terminator movies -- new research into self-sustaining machines hints at a future where the scariest thing about robots may actually be their breath. In an attempt to created a robot that can power itself indefinitely,
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World's First Flight Powered by 100% Algae Biofuels Completed
A new and notable world's first in the realm of aviation biofuels: EADS, maker of the Airbus and lots of defense and transport aircraft, has announced the completion of the first flight powered entirely by algae-based biofuel.
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Ditching Ethanol Subsidy Will Save US $6 Billion - Won't Hurt Domestic Production Either
Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the
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Can You Run a Car on Tim Hortons Coffee?
So coffee helps wake people up in the morning. And java from the Tim Hortons chain isn't too bad. But can Canadian coffee make your car go? Not exactly. Professors at the University of Manitoba are turning discarded T Ho's
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Algae Biofuels Still Years From Commercialization: DoE
If it sometimes seems that second generation biofuels, and especially algae biofuels, also seem to be commercially just over the horizon, after just one more demonstration or pilot plant is
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First Biofuel-Powered Helicopter Flight Made by Royal Netherlands Air Force
The Apache AH-64D deployed by the US in Iraq; the same type as used in the Netherlands' test flight. Photo: Wikipedia. Aviation biofuels continue to gain momentum, with both commercial airlines and the military all conducting test flights and in general
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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show
French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo
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Ready To Wean Off Oil Yet? DIY Fuel for $1 Per Gallon
Since Earth Day, we've been watching gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, with daily dispatches relaying the horrors. So if the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster isn't enough to
