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More and more research studies show the fact that biofuels, ethanol, and other zero-carbon burning fuels do more damage than they do good in the long run. According to a recent study, it looks like ethanol, the petrol companies’ saving field, consumes up to three times more water than it was previously thought, as MIT’s [...]

Iowa State University started a new project of developing a thermochemical system that combines production of ethanol and thermal energy. With a low-emission burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production, the technologies use synthesis gas produced from discarded seed corn, switch-grass, wood chips and other biomass.

The “Iowa Farm Bureau Renewable Energy Chopper” is a good example of how eco-friendly fuel can power great, sexy rides. The green low-rider motorcycle was built by Orange County Choppers to celebrate Iowa’s farming heritage. Its E85 ethanol motor runs with 85% ethanol-blended petrol which is made from the natural goodness of corn. A phenomenal [...]

Algenol, a Maryland-based company said that its business partner BioFields has licensed its technology and invested $850 million to build a saltwater algae farm in the Sonoran Desert in northwest Mexico. The production is scheduled to begin next year.
Algenol CEO Paul Woods said Thursday that the ethanol produced at the farm will cost $1 less [...]

The ideal green vehicle is the one that feeds from renewable resources. Toyota’s Prius has been considered the flag for green vehicles, it has SULEV (super ultra low emission vehicle) certification and it charmed treehuggers worldwide.
Recently inspired by public demand and by the conversions made by third party companies to make it a plug-in hybrid, [...]

Biofuel is generally defined as energy obtained from biomass, through direct combustion, alcohol fermentation, and methane fermentation. Biomass, the raw material of biofuel, especially for bioalcohol, can be classified into sugar-based (sugar cane, sugar beet, etc), starch-based (corn, potato, sweet potato, etc) and wood-based (wastewood, rice straw, wastepaper, etc).
Today, most of the liquid biofuels are [...]

Ethanol is a promising alternative fuel that, along with improvements in fuel economy and reductions in travel demand, has the potential to help solve many of the problems associated with gasoline use. Though the current form of ethanol made from corn offers limited environmental benefits and limited potential for large-scale displacement of petroleum, it will [...]

I guess everybody’s complaining about the skyrocketing oil prices these days. This trend is expected to be worse, and it’s expected to reduce the people’s gasoline consumption by big figures. That can be to the benefit of the environment, on one hand, but on the other hand it can be terrifying for the general public, [...]

Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and his colleague Aurélien Tartar describe the way that the enzymes produces by termites and the micro-organisms living inside them, or their “symbionts” could help the scientists produce ethanol from straw or wood by providing some basic chemical processes.

A few days ago I presented an invention that harnesses hydrogen from water, by simply sinking a specially-nano-designed aluminum into it. The solution is like some kind of a “panacea”, offering answers to most of our energy problems. It seems a little bizarre that some researchers are still paid (by the DOE) to find out [...]