Airlines Start Flying on Mixed Fuels
The inaugural United flight fueling up. Photo: Courtesy United Airlines
In the past week, United Airlines and Alaska Airlines both debuted limited commercial flights using biofuels.
Although these airlines were the first in the U.S. to use the new fuel, several...
Nov
09
Rice University researchers Ramon Gonzalez (left) and Clementina Dellomonaco created a new method for converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly...
Aug
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Traditional providers of milk, meat and fertilizer can also be grazing fuel factories. Credit: Betsy Crowfoot.
Biogas has been collected for years by major first-world agricultural entities, landfills and manufacturers, but now families in developing countries and environmentally at-risk sites also...
Aug
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One oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, has estimated that the world’s energy consumption will increase three-fold over consumption from the year 2000. This will put a great deal of strain on oil production which is rapidly approaching peak production with many experts saying will be reached in the...
Feb
15
Algae is considered a prime candidate to serve as feedstock for biofuels because of its high energy content and yield, rapid growth and ability to thrive in seawater or wastewater. Oil from algae can be refined into gasoline, biodiesel or jet fuel. Photo: Sandia National Laboratories
A new report...
Nov
04
The Evolution and Use of the World’s Energy Systems
Every minute enough of the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s surface to meet the world’s energy demands for a whole year. Combine this powerful energy source with other readily available energy sources like wind, moving...
Sep
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The “Renewable Energy Snapshots” report, published this week by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), shows that renewable energy sources accounted for 62% (17GW) of the new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009. The share rose from 57% in...
Jul
06
The bacterium Micrococcus luteus harbors a three-gene cluster that encodes for enzymes essential to the synthesis of alkenes. (Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
If concerns for global climate change and ever-increasing costs weren’t enough, the disastrous Gulf oil...
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