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Amsterdam Airport Switch on Alternative Fuel Made by Cooking Oil

Adrian — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:01:31 +0000

Because air travel has been made responsible for 3 percent of global greenhouse emission it is time to make a switch. This year the European Union directed to all airlines to cut down their usage of fossil fuels in planes. All airlines company which operate out of European Union countries have to reduce carbon emission […]

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Whiskey as Alternative Fuel for Kentucky’s Man Car

Adrian — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:44:46 +0000

A world full of worries about depleting oil resources is wondering about alternative fuel sources. A man from Kentucky found alternative fuel solution, he build a car that runs on bourbon whiskey. The Kentucky man called Mickey Nilsson from Bardstown with his own flair to tinker with automotive parts it used for this project an […]

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US Air Force Will Powers Fighter Jet with Alternative Fuels Till 2016

Adrian — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:11:25 +0000

The US Air Force has extended its experiments with green technology by successfully flying an F-22 Raptor at supersonic speeds using half parts of alternative fuel blend and standard jet fuel. The fighter jet was put through its paces 40,000 feet above the Edwards Air Force Base last week, travelling at one and a half […]

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Ohio University Researchers Have Developed a Technology to Produce Alternative Fuel

Adrian — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:21:03 +0000

Scientists have tinkered with a wide array of possibilities in an ever-urgent quest for any alternative fuel. So it shouldn’t be too surprising that researchers at Ohio University have developed a technology to produce alternative fuel from –of all things — urine! In an odd way, by-products are an ideal source of alternative fuel. They’re […]

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Invention That Turns Plastic Waste into Alternative Fuel

Adrian — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:17:01 +0000

Indiscriminate use of plastic bags and plastic materials in carrying and packing our daily necessities has led to enormous accumulation of plastic waste, littering everywhere around us. A Japanese scientist has come up with a unique way of reusing the plastic waste that has posed serious threats to the environment. His newly invented machine, […]

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Electric Bus Tandem Battery Made by GE

Adrian — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:42:54 +0000

When it comes to buses, a group of researchers say two batteries based on different technology are better than one large battery. The Federal Transit Authority (FTA) Hybrid Transit Bus project team, which GE scientists are a part of, has built a hybrid electric bus by loading it with one high-power lithium ion battery and […]

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New Yeast Can Ferment More Sugar to Make Cellulosic Bioethanol

Adrian — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:40:08 +0000

Purdue University scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant’s sugars. Nathan Mosier, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering; Miroslav Sedlak, a research assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering; and Nancy Ho, a research professor of […]

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Biofuel Chemistry More Complex Than Petroleum

Adrian — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:30:04 +0000

Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journal Angewandte Chemie devotes its May 10 cover to a paper co-authored by Sandia’s Nils Hansen and Lawrence Livermore’s Charles Westbrook, which […]

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Next Generation of Ethanol a Challenge for Brazil’s Investments

Adrian — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:32:14 +0000

A new partnership started to promote bioethanol development in Brazil. The Brazilian Innovation Agency, Brazil’s National Development Bank and FINEP (Research and Projects Financing) invest $540 million in financing to the country’s biofuels sector to promote innovation in the field of bioethanol. The funding will be invested in technology projects over the next four years. […]

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Future Turkey’s biogas Production Expect to Begin in 2011

Adrian — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:47:38 +0000

At the very beginning of 2011 the fully operational new biogas plant will run in Turkey. The plant, build by Austrian- biogas engineering company Enbasys GmbH, will process around 55,000 tones of municipal and industrial waste each year using ENBAFERM multi –feedstock biogas technology. The biogas produced will be used to generate electricity and heat, […]

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