All Entries in the "BioFuels" Category

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ENRIN – Capacity Building

Central & Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Policy development and planning for sustainable development and coherent environmental management demands information, national data and knowledge of the state of the environment. As assessments and analyses become multi-sectoral, the degree of complexity generates the need for integrated information. These products in turn require organizational [...]

Gribble: Crustacean Biofuel In Your Gas Tank

The Gribble, a small crustacean responsible for nothing more than eating piers below the water table all over the world, has found a new job in the biofuel industry. [...]

T. Boone Pickens Plan For Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs)

Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a plan to reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil. His plan is to build fields of windmills across the Great Plains to generate electricity so that cleaner burning natural gas, which currently costs about $1.50 a gallon, and is used to power many electric plants, can be freed [...]

First Jatropha Powered Jumbo Jet Lands

Today history has been made by Air New Zealand in the first flight powered by Jatropha. Jatropha, an up and coming second generation biofuel, that does not take away from food crops, was used in a 50/50 mix of Jatropha and jet fuel. [...]

Green Power

There are many different sources of Green Power: Geothermal, Solar, Wind, Hydro, Biofuels, Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles, Hydrogen Generators and many other ways to go green, as far as your power usage is concerned.  By using Green Power, we help the environment and save money at the same time. 
There are new ways to use green power for [...]

Jatropha: Biofuel Of The Future

Jatropha is a plant that produces around 40% oil for use in many different ways.  Bio-diesel being one of them and Biomass, to help run electrical plants, another.  This plant, that originated in the Caribbean, has become naturalized in many different countries including Africa, Mexico, India, and North America.  Being a member of the  Euphorbiaceae family, Jatropha [...]

Running Your Car On Radio Waves And Hydrogen

John Kanzius, a retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, was looking for a cure for cancer. He got up in the middle of the night, with a revolutionary idea, to eliminate cancer cells from the human body. By injecting small amounts of metals[...]

Algae For Fuel: Is It Possible?

About 4 years ago inventor Jim Sears from Colorado came up with the idea of extracting biofuels from algae. He knew, this being a new technology and a new industry, that he had a long way to go and a lot of people to convince. Algae, which can provide a 100 times more oil per [...]

BioFuels

In these days of economic strife, we are sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for biofuels to hit the corner gas station. Why it’s taking so long is another matter and we have no clear answer on how long its going to take for biofuels to be a viable option in our community. The difference between biofuels and fossil fuels is the amount of time an organic material has been dead. Biofuels can be produced from any biological carbon source. Most common sources are photosynthetic plants. Also a wide array of different fuels ranging from water to White Lightning. White lightning, of course, being Ethanol.