China Celebrates First Commercial Flight with Sustainable Aviation Biofuel
24 Mar 2015, 11:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The plane that ran on the green fuel was the regularly scheduled Hainan Airlines flight that connects Shanghai with Beijing, a trip which carried 100 passengers
Researchers at Harvard Use Bacteria to Convert Solar Energy into Liquid Fuel
10 Feb 2015, 17:02 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A team of researchers at Harvard University are looking at a way to create bionic leafs that could transform solar power into liquid fuel in the future
Shipworms To Reveal Secrets of Making Biofuel
25 Nov 2014, 13:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Shipworms are quite odd sea living creatures to start with. First of all, they’re not actually worms, but mollusks and they feed on wood, hence their name coming from eating their way through ...
UK’s Poo-Bus Runs on Human Waste
21 Nov 2014, 10:46 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / In an effort to improve the city’s air quality and discover environmental-friendly fuels to power the urban busses, the city of Bristol will run a 4-week trial of a vehicle that literally runs...
Whiskey Waste Used to Make Biofuel
14 Nov 2014, 13:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When it comes to biofuels, most people think of ethanol obtained from crops or biodiesel made out of fat and other natural oils. But using only crops to create biofuel won’t cut it and we shou...
MTSU Professor To Go Cross Country Driving on Chicken Fat
13 Nov 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Few might know that the diesel engine has been first developed to run on vegetable oil and has later been modified to run on the secondary product left from petrol refining. Basically, any fat that ...
Urban Concept Vehicle Might One Day Save the Poor
19 Sep 2014, 16:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A concept vehicle envisioned by industrial and graphical designer Nicolae Chacana might be the future’s next car to actually save lifes. Called the Urban Concept Vehicle, it is intended to pro...
Boeing and South African Airways Will Turn Hybrid Tobacco in Bio Fuel
14 Aug 2014, 13:49 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Boeing and South African Airways have recently closed a partnership through which the two corporations will collaborate in making sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. Besid...
Trees Could Provide Power and Carbon Fiber for Cars in the Future
31 Jul 2014, 09:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Our cars need to be even more lightweight in the future to use fuel more efficiently, be it electricity or biofuel. Luckily, with further research, lightweight materials and even fuel can be offered...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Drives His Green Hummer H1 to Lunch: It's Big and Eco
10 Jul 2014, 09:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Body builder, actor, ex Governor of California and among all a really cool guy, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently took one of his great fleet of Hummers on the road to have lunch, in LA. Besides the ac...
Here’s How Algae Biofuel is Made
8 Jul 2014, 16:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Today we were reporting that growing crops to create biofuel won’t cut it for the future of transportation as it will increase food pricing and lead to deforestation. However, biofuels can be ...
EU Limits Production of Biofuels Made From Food Crops
8 Jul 2014, 13:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Just as with the electric vehicles that can’t be considered that much of a planet saving solution, biodiesel made from food crops won’t cut it either. And the EU Energy Council just agre...
Volvo Trucks to Run on DME in North America by 2015
11 Jun 2013, 11:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / DME is short for Di-Methyl-Ether and can be produced as a biofuel through distillation. Compared with diesel fuel, Bio-DME produces no less than 95 percent less carbon dioxide emissions, while deliv...
Scientists Can Now Turn Algae into Crude Oil in One Minute!
15 Nov 2012, 10:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the idea of pressure cooking algae until it turns into crude oil is not an entirely new concept, and it has been done before, it didn`t take one minute to obtain results, which is exactly what...
OMG: Cars Could Run on Fuel Made from Orange Peels!
20 Sep 2011, 11:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We know that diesels can burn chip fat instead of the usual fuel of the devil, and that some people have even managed to squeeze fuel from the humble apple, but what about the sunny fruit, can you g...
United States Investing $510 Million in Biofuels
17 Aug 2011, 11:34 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / Biofuel could be an alternative for replacing fossil fuels.That belief grows roots as the US Energy and Agriculture departments and the Navy plan to invest as much as $510 million over a period of ...
Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Fly on Biofuel
17 Jun 2011, 14:05 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A piece of aviation history is about to be written, as Boeing is preparing its new 747-8 Freighter to fly to the Paris Air Show using some type of biofuel blend. This will mark the world's firs...
Phytonix to Replace Gasoline with Revolutionary Biofuels
14 Mar 2011, 16:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Founded in 2009 to produce cost-effective biofuels that are safe for the environment, the Phytonix Corporation now owns the exclusive worldwide licensing rights for a revolutionary technology to cre...
The Mexican Manhattan Project: Algae Biofuel
15 Feb 2011, 13:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A few weeks back, the Top Gear hosts have managed to angry an ambassador by describing, indirectly, Mexicans as being “lazy, feckless, flatulent, oaf with a moustache leaning against a fence a...
Scania to Deliver 158 Biofuel Buses to Sweden
22 Jan 2011, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Encouraged by the lower cost of operating greener vehicles, as well as a way to become more eco-conscious, transport operators are slowly turning to biofuel-powered buses and coaches to satisfy thei...