All Entries in the "Ozone Friendly" Category
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. [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Cleaner Greener Freezer
Ben & Jerry’s new in-store freezers do not use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as refrigerants anymore. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is the type of greenhouse gas that packs 1,400 times the global warming impact of more-common CO2. The new [...]
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.
