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Joule Biotechnologies Figures Out How to Make Fuel From Air

It seems impossible, but biofuel startup Joule Biotechnologies claims that it has successfully produced fuel out of thin air--sort of. The company's mysterious engineered microbes require just sunlight and CO2 to squirt out ethanol, ...READ»

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Abandoned Mines: The New Algae-Harvesting Powerhouses?

Algae is one of the hottest new biofuel materials, with over a dozen companies attempting to make the slimy stuff a viable feedstock. Most of them rely on the natural simplicity of the organism--sun and water turn CO2 from algae ...READ»

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6 Ways Google Has Greened Its Main Campus

Google has made waves in the greentech world with its multi-million dollar geothermal and solar power investments, its plans to build a wave-powered data center, and its proclamation that it wants to make clean energy cheaper than ...READ»

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Go Fish: Startup Makes Algae-Based Fish Oil Into Biofuel

Fish plus algae equals oil says a new startup called LiveFuels, the latest algae-based biofuel gambit that's as controversial as it is intriguing.READ»

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Five Companies That Are Turning Algae Into Energy

We recently received a press release from a fledging company called Renewed World Energies claiming that it has created the first commercially viable algae-processing system. The company expects to have two acres of commercial algae ...READ»

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Chicken Feather Biofuel Something to Cluck About

Chicken feather meal--a mix of processed chicken feathers, blood and innards--is one of the nastiest byproducts of the poultry processing industry. The 11 billion pounds of feather meal that pile up in the United States each year are ...READ»

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Bamboo Taxis Arrive in Philippines Town

digg_url = 'http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/bamboo-taxis-arrive-philippines-town'; digg_skin = 'compact'; We've written about bamboo bikes before, but the Philippines rice farming town of ...READ»

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Solarix Sustainer: A Biodiesel Conversion System for the Survivalist

European biodiesel company Solarix has created what may be a sustainable powerhouse for rural areas: the Sustainer, a "power box" in a 20-foot container frame that converts oil-bearing crops and seeds into edible oil ...READ»

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Race Car Made From Vegetables--Fuelled by Chocolate--Goes for a Test Spin

The Internet has been buzzing about the WorldFirst ecoF3 vehicle, a race car made from vegetables that runs on chocolate-derived biofuels, for the past month. Now the race car's developers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing ...READ»

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Dissolving Styrofoam in Biodiesel Makes Better Fuel

In terms of environmental impact, biodiesel fuel is nicer than "ordinary" diesel. Meanwhile, styrofoam is a nasty, non-biodegradable packaging material. Now, like a scene from Back to the Future made real, scientists have ...READ»

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Waste Coffee Grounds Make Great Biofuel

As well as being the early morning fuel for billions of office workers, researchers have discovered that coffee, in the form of spent grounds, makes a pretty decent biofuel. The Nevada-based team recently pointed out that one barrier...READ»

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