biofuel
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The U.N.’s climate report has something to piss everyone off
Everything’s on the table when it comes to fighting climate change.
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The crazy true story of how George W. Bush secretly tried to raise the gas tax
Turns out that when Dubyah called for the country to kick its oil addiction, he meant it. But then things got messy.
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Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
Maybe we really will drive corn-powered cars someday
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The only time driving and booze mix: Scotch biofuels
Scottish researchers could make your post-work Rusty Nail a little more eco-conscious. Cheers!
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Magical algae turns sewage into biofuel and Dasani
By Dasani, we mean potable tap water. And by sewage, we mean sewage.
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In the future, wind turbine blades could be made out of vegetables
Unlike some fuel sources we could name, wind power doesn’t dump tons of carbon into the atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean turbines don’t come with their own environmental issues. Those majestic, gigantic turbine blades — which start at 37 yards long and can weigh more than 15 tons — eventually wear out and have to […]
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The answer to our fuel woes might be monster sweet potatoes
Corn ethanol is a good idea in theory — what’s more renewable than a fuel source you plant and harvest every year? But corn is such an inefficient energy source that if we wanted to meet our biofuel goals with corn ethanol alone, they’d have to shoulder out every other crop. You know what yields […]
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Farm-in-a-truck teaches kids about sustainability
Compass Green is a mobile greenhouse built into a truck, which runs on vegetable oil (natch). Handsome hipsters Nick Runkle and Justin Cutter retooled the truck, which was already fitted with Plexiglas display panels, to turn it into a biofuel-powered educational farm on wheels.
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Your new offshore energy source: Floating algae farms
Forget offshore oil drilling. NASA’s working on a project that would generate clean, renewable offshore energy, by growing algae in floating plastic bags. These floating algae farms would take in wastewater from treatment plants. For algae, wastewater is like the nectar of the gods: The ammonia and phosphates act as a fertilizer. So the algae […]