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If there’s one thing all Americans are good at, it’s producing waste: thirty million tons of it a year, in fact. From food scraps to old newspapers, a lot of compostable materials end up in the nation’s landfills. Thomas Quinn, the founder of Silicon Valley start-up E-Fuel wants to change all that.
- Mad (cow) Science: How Canadians Plan To Turn High-risk Proteins Into Bio-plastic
In the wake of Canada’s 2003 bovine spongiform encephalopathy outbreak (that’s Mad Cow Disease to you and me), the Canadian government barred the use of BSE infected tissue – including the skull, brain, eyes and spinal cords of...
- Ford Develops Eco-friendly Wheat-straw Reinforced Plastics, First Application On 2010 Flex
Powertrains aside, automakers are also looking in other areas to make today's vehicles more environmentally friendly. One such example is a newly developed natural fiber-based plastic that contains 20 percent wheat straw bio-filler developed by the...
- Hummer H3 To Get E85 Capable Engines And 4-cylinder Diesel In 2009
With Hummer’s future uncertain as truck and large SUV sales continue to freefall in the States, you’d think that GM would totally give up on its offroad brand. But for the time being, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As part of its...
- Scientists Attempt To Create Fuel From Bug... Poop
A privately industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco called “LS9†has been experimenting with genetically altered bugs that will provide 'renewable petroleum'. Now before you start mating various types of bugs...
- Audi R10 Tdi To Use Biofuel Made From Biowaste At 24h Le Mans Race
For the first time, Audi’s successful R10 TDI race cars that will take part at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in mid June will run on a next generation synthetic diesel fuel manufactured from Biowaste. In particular, a small amount of Biofuel is mixed...
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Brew Your Own Ethanol Fuel from Food scraps and Old Newspapers
If there’s one thing all Americans are good at, it’s producing waste: thirty million tons of it a year, in fact. From food scraps to old newspapers, a lot of compostable materials end up in the nation’s landfills. Thomas Quinn, the founder of Silicon Valley start-up E-Fuel wants to change all that.
The E-Fuel system uses two washing machine sized components: the MicroFusion Reactor (which to me conjures up images of Mr. Fusion from Back To The Future Part II) and the MicroFueler. The former reduces organic waste into sugar water and ferments it into a sugary, bacteria-ridden alcoholic soup not unlike bathtub homebrew.
- Mad (cow) Science: How Canadians Plan To Turn High-risk Proteins Into Bio-plastic
In the wake of Canada’s 2003 bovine spongiform encephalopathy outbreak (that’s Mad Cow Disease to you and me), the Canadian government barred the use of BSE infected tissue – including the skull, brain, eyes and spinal cords of...
- Ford Develops Eco-friendly Wheat-straw Reinforced Plastics, First Application On 2010 Flex
Powertrains aside, automakers are also looking in other areas to make today's vehicles more environmentally friendly. One such example is a newly developed natural fiber-based plastic that contains 20 percent wheat straw bio-filler developed by the...
- Hummer H3 To Get E85 Capable Engines And 4-cylinder Diesel In 2009
With Hummer’s future uncertain as truck and large SUV sales continue to freefall in the States, you’d think that GM would totally give up on its offroad brand. But for the time being, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As part of its...
- Scientists Attempt To Create Fuel From Bug... Poop
A privately industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco called “LS9†has been experimenting with genetically altered bugs that will provide 'renewable petroleum'. Now before you start mating various types of bugs...
- Audi R10 Tdi To Use Biofuel Made From Biowaste At 24h Le Mans Race
For the first time, Audi’s successful R10 TDI race cars that will take part at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in mid June will run on a next generation synthetic diesel fuel manufactured from Biowaste. In particular, a small amount of Biofuel is mixed...