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Green products and nature-oriented campaigns are now to be brought to the attention of NASCAR racing fans, as NASCAR pilots decided to work together with representatives of EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to help raise awareness with respect to environmental issues.
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23 May 2012
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Investigators at the Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, have created hybrid snails, which they say are able to produce electricity. The group, led by scientist Evgeny Katz, inserted tiny biofuel cells into the mollusks, which work by extracting electricity from the glucose and oxygen in the blood.
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19 March 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Even though there are several impediments delaying the development of a coal-free society, investors still think that alternative sources have a lot of potential and are trust-worthy enough to become a strong ally in the long term.
At this point, Joule, a giant company gaining popularity due to its innovative HelioC... |
18 January 2012
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The aviation is responsible for a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions reaching the atmosphere and lowering air quality every year. In order to minimize this threat while saving some money, researchers have scaled up efforts to advance research for the new generation of plant-based biofuels.
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17 January 2012
08:54 GMT |
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Nowadays, governments and companies are pressured to boost the usage of biofuels, to liberate nations from a costly petroleum dependency and green up transportation at the same time.
Cool Planet may soon play an important part in this direction, since its innovative negative-carbon gasoline, inspired by plant p... |
14 January 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Two ingenious Israeli researchers are struggling to green up transportation through a new method of obtaining less polluting fuel made from all types of oil, including the kind used worldwide by fast food stands.
At times when the natural resources are scarce and expensive, Dr. Sobhi Basheer and Dr. Ahmed Tafesh ar... |
30 December 2011
04:06 GMT |
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A new study issued by the International Land Coalition reveals that biofuel production has required a series of “land grabs” in developing countries, affecting the already vulnerable inhabitants.
The reports highlights that, so far, 40 million hectares have been used to come up with a reliable source of... |
14 December 2011
07:56 GMT |
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The US Navy spares no efforts to display an eco-conscious attitude. It has previously announced its commitment to algae-based biofuels and now it is also eager to experience a green boost provided by inedible animal byproducts, like chicken fat and beef tallow.
This strategy comes as an effective response to preside... |
7 December 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Scientists know that the biofuel industry generates a considerable amount of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) through its manufacturing processes. Experts have warned major companies operating on this market that cutting down forests to obtain premium eco-friendly fuel is a rather messy business. A recent study issu... |
1 December 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy think they found the key to success in revolutionizing the biofuel industry. They rely on the contribution of one of the most important threats to human health: E.coli bacteria.
Experts say it represents a source with a lot of potential, since it can change the propert... |
30 November 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Boise University’s mission of launching a fully functional, fast pick-up truck powered by vegetable oil is now completed. The team of students is now bragging about their innovative Greenspeed that reached 155 miles per hour during a drive test in Southern California. They prove that modern eco-friendly techno... |
25 November 2011
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Ingenious scientists now hope that introducing a maize gene into switchgrass will create an appropriate feedstock used to manufacture premium biofuel. While some researchers are keen on proving that cellulosic biomass-based biofuel can replace fossil fuel usage in a clean, effective manner, other experts say the proc... |
19 November 2011
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The US Navy announces the first successful trip of its algae-biofuel powered destroyer ship, that succeeded in reaching its destination, after a 20-hour trip.
This is a major achievement since representatives behind this project say the innovative kind of biofuel can efficiently replace the fossil fuel usage, rep... |
19 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Greentomato improvements have nothing in common with a healthy diet but have everything to do with an eco-friendlier way of traveling. The London-based taxicab firm greentomatocars plans to add 20 vehicles running on biofuel to its current fleet. So far, the company has been offering 200 Prius cars to those of their... |
16 November 2011
08:41 GMT |
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EU and United States representatives declared that reaching an international climate deal this year in Durban is not "realistically possible."
The states' officials plan to meet in Durban, South Africa, to discuss and apply at an international level initiatives to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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28 October 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Nowdays,when the global population reached 7 billions and its energy demand is increasing, scientists try to develop efficient alternatives to replace traditional sources of power. While MIT Energy Initiative is preparing to celebrate its 5th anniversary, its researchers are presently trying to find out if zero-car... |
27 October 2011
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The University of Delaware proves that scientific improvements can be developed while manifesting a great concern towards environmental preservation. This is a huge step towards reducing the institution's carbon footprint and also a great way of saving a significant amount of money which otherwise had to be spen... |
26 October 2011
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The market of biofuel is expanding, as 13 companies are presently fighting to reach a higher position and receive financial support for their breakthroughs. Codexis, Amyris, Gevo, Solazyme and KiOR, PetroAlgae, Myriant, Ceres, Mascoma, Genomatica, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Fulcrum Bioenergy and OriginOil are a... |
26 October 2011
03:15 GMT |
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At times when the US nation seems to rely almost entirely on oil imports, it seems that officials are looking for a greener alternative to replace the massive costs generated by petroleum acquisitions. In order to reduce costs and improve efficiency, U.S. military is doing its best to increase the productivity of su... |
19 October 2011
03:19 GMT |
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Thomson Airways recently became the first UK airline to fly customers on sustainable biofuel. The historic flight, TOM 7446, carried 232 passengers on a Boeing 757-200 for the four hour flight from Birmingham Airport to Arrecife.The sustainable biofuel used by Thomson Airways has been supplied by Dutch-based company ... |
7 October 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Using gene recombination technology, Toyota Motor Corporation announced it has developed a new strain of yeast that plays an important role in the fermentation process for producing cellulosic ethanol.The company managed to developed an yeast that is highly resistant to such fermentation-inhibiting substances as acet... |
4 October 2011
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Spaniards have just added another important date in their calendar yesterday, when Iberia and Repsol have staged the country's first commercial flight powered by biofuel. An Iberia Airbus A320 flew from Madrid to Barcelona, burning 2,600 kg (5,732lbs) of a mix between A-1 jet fuel and biofuel derived from the ca... |
4 October 2011
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A new project set to prove that orange peels could be used to power our cars is currently underway at the University of York, under the guidance of Professor James Clark.The British scientist has reportedly come up with a revolutionary method of producing biofuels. Dubbed OPEC (Orange Peel Exploitation Company), the ... |
20 September 2011
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In the near future, harvesting seaweeds called kelp could provide companies with the necessary raw material to create unconventional biofuels. The materials could be collected and processed at a price that would allow for wide-scale applications. Efficiency would be increased even further if the kelp (Laminaria digit... |
4 July 2011
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In a bid to provide clean and environmentally-safer fuel for the transportation industry, experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have engineered bacteria that are capable of producing biofuel similar to gasoline at ten times the rate microbes are capable of. The breakthrough could stir up a competi... |
2 March 2011
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Bio-oil is an ecological product and it will be cheap enough to compete with fossil oil in plastic manufacture, according to a team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and featuring visiting scientists from Southeast University in China and the University of Nottingham, UK.Today, pyrolysis oil... |
26 November 2010
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Scientists at the University of Illinois, wandered how bacteria broke down fibers, so they used the best fiber-breaking bacteria they knew - cow rumen bacterium, to break down hemicellulose plant matter into simple sugars.They used DNA sequencing and transcriptomics (RNAseq approach) to identify all of the enzymes th... |
8 September 2010
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The industrial production of algae biofuel would be feasible within the next 15 years, say two researchers from Wageningen UR (University & Research center) in their article published today in Science.Professor René Wijffels and Dr Maria Barbosa of Wageningen UR say in their article An Outlook on Microalgal Bi... |
13 August 2010
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Bio-Bug is a VW Beetle modified by The Greenfuel Company to work on methane gas produced by the sewage treatment process. The project is a collaboration between the Bath-based company, GENeco, the University of Bath and the South West Regional Development Agency. This is an innovative project that wants to encourage ... |
9 August 2010
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The blue-green algae, scientifically called cyanobacteria, is one of the oldest living forms in nature, responsible for generating oxygen in the air we breathe. Researchers Hyun Woo Kim and Raveender Vannela, from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, are searching for ways to grow these microbes in la... |
8 July 2010
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Coming up with an economically-sustainable alternative source of fuel is no easy task, and most existing methods of synthesizing such compounds either take up too much space, or are grown instead of crops that could have the potential of feeding a lot of people. Now, researchers in South Korea have managed to devise ... |
22 January 2009
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What would you say if you walked on the street and the air smelled like coffee instead of burned gas? Although the very few people who can't stand the smell of coffee (assuming there are any) may be disappointed, for those who aim at having waste turned into fuel, good news is here: coffee and biofuels just beca... |
16 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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The US dependency on foreign oil and other fossil fuels has been a controversial subject over the years, as well as in the last presidential campaign. Various scientists and public figures have advocated for both more off-shore drilling and the development of alternate energy sources and biofuels. And while the latte... |
11 November 2008
06:52 GMT |
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A microbe that thrives inside the trunk of a tree could prove to be the future source of biofuels. It was discovered by mistake in an undisclosed location in the northern Patagonian woods. The team of researchers who came upon it and who tapped the potential of their finding have dubbed the resulting hydrocarbon com... |
7 November 2008
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The European Union has already pledged its commitment to introducing biofuels as an alternative to regular, petroleum-based kerosene, in 5 to 10 years. But, while some oppose this measure, others have already taken the first steps towards this goal. Boeing is expecting to get approval for using biofuels in 3 to 5 yea... |
28 October 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Long-term investigations of the Brazilian government finally paid off, when authorities discovered the largest oil deposits in recent years, off the coast of the country. All areas contained within Brazil's 200 miles of sea, and even some that were beyond that limit, were searched for fossil fuels. In 2007, the ... |
22 October 2008
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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change is now severely affecting the population of birds around the world. The IUCN meeting taking place this week in Bonn, Germany, has updated the catalogue of 1226 species of threatened birds in the Red List of endangered bird species rel... |
20 May 2008
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Researchers from the University of Texas report that they have developed a method through which large amounts of biofuel can be produced at relatively cheap prices. By using a cyanobacteria, they have been able to produce cellulose that can be easily turned into ethanol and other biofuels. Alternatively, the microbe ... |
24 April 2008
07:12 GMT |
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Would converting cars that run on petrol into biofuel propelled ones finally save us from global warming, or not? No chance, say environmental researchers after completing a study on converting biowaste into biofuel. And to top that up, biofuel conversion could even worsen the emission of greenhouse gases. This is mo... |
8 February 2008
09:37 GMT |
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In just a few months, termites can turn a woodhouse into dust. But it is exactly this ability that can deliver us greener biofuel. Their abdomens harbor a treasure of microbes that could deliver enzymes for turning wood or waste biomass into biofuels and a new DNA analysis published in the journal Nature represents a... |
22 November 2007
04:03 GMT |
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Scientists have been studying biofuels and ways to extract it from biomass for years, but the search for such fuels has accelerated in the last few years as a result of US' dependency on foreign oil.There is now an accentuated need for biofuel and new ways to produce it. Annual Meetings of the American Society o... |
6 November 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Mushrooms are yummy but sometimes they can be more than that. That's why a team at the University of Warwick is co-ordinating a global effort to achieve the genome sequencing of the most important mushrooms for the westerners: button or common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). Decoding the genetic make up of the mus... |
18 July 2007
04:14 GMT |
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People consider ethanol (biofuel) as being a solution to replace gas as this has reached high prices (up to $3-a-gallon) and the oil resources are finishing, being forecast to drop significantly in 30 years, not mentioning that most petroleum-rich nations are unreliable, non-democratic and unstable nations. Ethanol i... |
23 May 2007
11:19 GMT |
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The whole world is on the rush for biofuel production, as the oil tap seems to stop soon. Corn is currently employed for producing ethanol, but the method proved very little environmentally friendly and comes at the same price as oil. Now, Cornell researchers have discovered a method of producing less expensive cell... |
28 April 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Animal power comes with a new meaning as it stumbles with technology. And pigs will save the planet with in energy crisis. Oil company ConocoPhillips will collaborate with Tyson Foods, world's biggest meat producer, to produce bio-diesel from pork fat, but also cattle and chicken fat. This renewable fuel is thou... |
20 April 2007
06:58 GMT |
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It is seen as the universal solution to oil crisis. Ethanol is promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable fuel, as it is achieved from the fermentation corn and other crops or even from plant wastes. The carbon dioxide resulted from burning ethanol would be equal to that soaked up from atmosphere by the pl... |
18 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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You probably know that there are some alternative fuel power plants or engines that use ethanol, a gas produced during the decomposition of organic materials, as fuel, like from corn, or manure from farm animals.Did you also know that diesel engines can very well run on used cooking oil?These new alternative fuel so... |
10 April 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some governments' agendas, and hopefully not only because elections are coming.The first concrete measures have been to introduce extra taxes for purchasing o... |
3 April 2007
02:57 GMT |
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Palm oil has been regarded as the best solution for obtaining an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to fossil fuels that would be also a solution for global warming. Thus, energy companies converted generators and energy production from palm oil increased. But new researches are increasingly pointing that:... |
2 April 2007
04:37 GMT |
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In the current international situation, when most of the world's oil resources are on the hands of all kind of fanatic regimes, finding an alternative and renewable solution for oil is of extreme importance. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory focus on the pho... |
29 March 2007
04:58 GMT |
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