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Saturday, July 10th, 2010Just like famous bank robber Willie Sutton, who supposedly once said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is“, a new mobile biofuel process being developed by Purdue University would go to where the biomass is. Current biofuel processes rely on transporting bulky biomass to the biofuel plant – which is a [...]
More and Better Biofuels
Monday, July 5th, 2010CleanTechnica.com posted an interesting article on the current happenings in the biofuel arena. And it sounds like there’s lots of good stuff. A widespread switch seems to be underway from the first generation of biofuels that were made out of food crops like corn and soybean. The current focus is on [...]
Hewlett Packard wants to use cow power for its data centers
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 HP cow power flow chart
Hewlett Packard is recommending that dairy farmers go into the high tech business by converting cow manure into electricity – and then using that electricity to power a different type of farm – a server farm at a data center.
HP says that the manure from 10,000 dairy cows would provide enough [...]
Bacteria that acts like a reverse fuel cell – producing biofuel from carbon dioxide
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 Geobacter bacteria
University of Massachusetts researchers have received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to pursue their research into the Geobacter bacterium. The researchers have found a way to make the Geobacter bacteria produce biofuel when hit with a tiny amount of electricity. The [...]
US Air Force success – first flight using 50/50 mix of biofuel and jet fuel
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II using a mix of biofuel and jet fuel
On Thursday, the US Air Force took a big step towards hitting their goal of a 50% switchover to alternative fuels by conducting their first test flight of an A-10C Thunderbolt using a 50/50 blend of Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) biofuel and JP-8 [...]
Cheaper enzymes lead to biofuel breakthrough
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Some pretty big news on the biofuel front today, as two Danish companies that make enzymes for the production of biofuel announced that they have developed new enzymes that can cheaply convert agricultural waste into cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol is recognized as a better solution for biofuel production than corn ethanol, since cellulosic ethanol [...]
BioFuelBox churns out competitively priced biodiesel from waste grease
Saturday, January 30th, 2010BioFuelBox, using techniques developed by and licensed from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), have been producing high grade biodiesel fuel from contaminated waste grease – the stuff that comes from wastewater treatment plants or restaurants. The BioFuelBox biodiesel is competitively priced with regular diesel fuel, meets EPA standards, and can be used interchangeably with [...]
Sapphire Energy gets federal funding to build its algae to oil biofuel plant
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy announced almost $600 million in federal funding for advanced biofuel projects. This federal grant money is intended to push forward the next generation of biofuels, since corn based ethanol plants have come under fire for increasing food costs. One of the beneficiaries of the [...]
Is hydrogen from algae the better biofuel?
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Hydrogen sounds great as an alternative energy power source – its clean burning, with water being the major exhaust gas from a hydrogen engine. But while it sounds great, one of the major problems with hydrogen is how to produce it in large enough quantities to use it as fuel.
This image shows the process [...]
Sapphire Energy’s Algaeus begins 10 day cross country tour
Friday, September 11th, 2009What is an ‘Algaeus’? It’s the world’s first plug-in hybrid to cross the country powered by fuel containing a blend of algae-based renewable gasoline, according to Sapphire Energy. Sapphire Energy is a developer of algae biofuel, dubbed ‘green crude’. One of the things that significant about Sapphire’s biofuel, is that it’s a drop-in biofuel [...]
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