Tag: Biofuels - Page 7
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Cars and People Compete for Grain
At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars--one that threatens world food
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Where's the Beef? It's Heating Swedish Homes
Biomal, which is defined as a "renewable" fuel created from crushing and grinding animal wastes and burning them together with wood chips or peat, is quietly used by Swedes (and initially funded by the
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Scientists Creating 'Extremophile' Super Bug to Make Fuel
What's more extreme than an extremophile? How about a new and improved version of the bug, a bacteria that thrives
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Bio-Grow: Electronic Waste To Grow Algae For Biofuels
It's hard to imagine that the widespread issue of electronic waste could be seen as anything more than a problem, but what if it could be reused to make homegrown algae biofuels? That's what industrial design students at of the
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UNC to Stop Burning Coal: First Victory for Sierra Club Campaign
As far as college towns go, Chapel Hill in North Carolina has a fair few things going for it. From being the birthplace of crop mob, through free buses, to the admittedly controversial Greenbridge high-end eco-condos, there are
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Brazil Announces Plan For Sustainable Palm Oil
Photo via the Land Coalition Palm oil production has long been a contentious issue and a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the oil's renewable source and application as biofuel make it an appealing alternative, but on the other, some of the most
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Green Hornet: F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Plane Flies on 50/50 Biofuel Blend
Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain.Biofuels Probably Have a Brighter Future in Aviation than Ground TransportThe U.S. military is the #1 consumer of oil in the world, and the Navy's ships and planes use a large fraction of the total. For strategic
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17 DIY Cars Hacked for Fuel Efficiency (Slideshow)
If reader views are any indicator, a lot of you love to see the clever -- and sometimes crazy -- solutions people come up with to make their cars more eco. That goes for Ecological and Economic, in the case of fuel-sucking
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17 DIY Cars Hacked for Fuel Efficiency
We love to see the clever, sometimes crazy, solutions people come up with to make their cars more Eco. Therefore, we've collected some of the wackiest options together in one place -- the cars both winning rallies and turning heads -- proving that a more
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U.S. Navy Wants to Cut its Petroleum Use, Create "Green Strike" Groups
Having Fewer Energy-Hungry Ships and Planes Might Help Too...The U.S. Navy, like the other branches of the U.S. military, is a big consumer of oil. Since a significant fraction of that oil comes from unstable regions and from
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GM Investigating Frost-Tolerant Jatropha For US Market - Partners With Indian Research Co. & DoE
We haven't heard much about jatropha biofuels lately, perhaps partly because in the sub-tropical and tropical plant doesn't survive even a nip of frost, making it less attractive in
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More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors
Here's a new twist on biomass gasification, one which more or less merges it with solar thermal. Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of the
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Harvard's Tiny "Pocket" Laboratory Could Speed Discovery of New Biofuels, Medications (Video)
Just a bit smaller than an iPod Nano, a new pocket-sized laboratory could revolutionize the way biofuels are discovered. The device - a
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Hand-Powered Log Splitter: A Safe Alternative to the Axe (Video)
From effective masonry heaters to beautiful Danish wood stoves, the Scandinavians know a thing or two about heating with wood. And as Collin stated in his post on wood stoves vs pellet stoves, with trees being a near
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More Evidence Palm Oil Plantations Are Bad for Biodiversity: Have Two-Thirds Lower Ant Species Than Forests
One more on the fact that, despite EU proposals to the contrary, palm oil plantations are not the same as forest, having far lower levels of biodiversity: Mongabay points out new research in the journal Basic and Applied
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From the Forums: Do Biofuels Cause Starvation?
lamar5292 isn't a fan of biofuels: I watched a PBS special the other night on how the US production of biofuels is causing food in countries like India and Africa to double and triple and some people are
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British Airways' to Create Jet Fuel from Landfill Waste
With the US Airforce announcing that cost-competitive algae jet fuel may be just months away, greener flying is looking less and less like pie in the sky. Despite seeing its profits squeezed by
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Cost-Competitive Algae Jet Fuel Just Months Away: Pentagon
I'm not sure whether the Pentagon's clean energy projects count toward the idea that environmentalism is socialist, or whether they get a free pass because, well, they are the Pentagon and they know a thing or two
