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EcoFactor: Alternative energy obtained from landfills.
Anybody with the slightest amount of common sense would know that landfills aren’t entirely bad as people consider them to be. They mostly are grounds with a high potential for useful...
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The Philippines is pushing the use of alternative fuels like biodiesel from coconut, palm, and jatropha; and ethanol from cassava, sugarcane and corn to reduce its...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Jefferson City
The Missouri treasurer’s office rejected financial incentives Thursday for an $82 million ethanol plant whose investors include the governor’s brother, a...
made popular Sep 25 2008
There is great news for all of the environment friendly groups and the alternative fuel industry. With times more and more of Americans are drifting towards alternative...
made popular Sep 12 2008
Eco factor: Enables us to produce biofuel that is both cheap and does not rely on food crops.
Producing biofuel from food crops has given way to a major argument about...
made popular Sep 11 2008
The demand for ethanol is increasing and so is the demand for corn in U.S. As a result American farmers are increasing the plantation of corn on a massive scale which...
made popular Sep 8 2008
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. _ Ethanol’s wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Ethanol could be the fuel of the future thanks to studies done by researchers at Washington University. They have discovered a process by which fermenting bacteria are...
made popular Aug 21 2008
According to the Nikkei Business Daily (via Tradingmarkets.com), Japan’s Suzuki Motor Company will begin selling cars that run completely on 100% ethanol in the US...
made popular Aug 20 2008
The EFuel100 MicroFueler home-brews ethanol by fermenting a mix of table sugar and nutrient-treated yeast in the system’s 250-gal. tank.
made popular Aug 14 2008
Some time ago, I read an article in a certain publication that if the United States to raise the import Brazilian ethanol, in fact would be changing the oil dependency...
made popular Aug 13 2008
AP, Lubbock
The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut the federal ethanol mandate in half for a year.
made popular Aug 7 2008
It has been sometime now and we have constantly come across many alternate sources or the alternate fuel, Ethanol. But till date we have not been able to actually...
made popular Aug 1 2008
Researchers at the University of Georgia have a developed a technology that can help in producing great amounts of ethanol from biomass such as grass, non-food crops...
made popular Jul 30 2008
AP, Jefferson City
Missouri lawmakers face a long summer tackling some of the state’s thorniest agriculture issues, a list headlined by ethanol.
made popular Jul 29 2008
AP, Washington
The Environmental Protection Agency is putting off a decision on Texas’ request to waive ethanol requirements for gasoline.A decision had been due Thursday. But...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed over the past few months. Economically, the escalation in gasoline prices is because it takes oil to make gasoline. The cost of...
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, Washington
The Energy Department frowned on relaxing federal requirements to boost the use of ethanol in gasoline.Any reduction in the renewable fuel standard would sap investment...
made popular Jul 10 2008
I know whet you are thing and this is not the same ‘weed’ that you are thinking about. This is clean, still unwanted but nothing that will intoxicate and kill you....
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Washington
More than four dozen House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying renewable fuel...
made popular Jun 30 2008
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The National Party has recently released its energy policy. National says it would promote gas-fired power stations and as such it would overturn a current ban by the...
made popular Aug 18 2008
Researchers at the University of Georgia have a developed a technology that can help in producing great amounts of ethanol from biomass such as grass, non-food crops...
made popular Jul 30 2008
A group of artists is on the brink of sculpturing a 120-feet long slug-like structure that’ll convert trash into fuel through gasification.
The project...
made popular Aug 4 2007
At the first glance, I possibly couldn’t figure, what on earth this was - whether a monster truck to fascinate my kid back home or a crane to pick his other...
made popular Jul 18 2007
A new method has been developed that can produce enough fuel to power all cars in America, according to U.S. scientists. The method is capable of fueling the needs of...
made popular Mar 15 2007
The state of New York will soon build an ethanol production plant near Rochester that will use paper sludge, wood chips and other agricultural waste as its raw...
made popular Dec 21 2006
Our ecosystem is veering to a good progress and in future, we could see more greenery around us. An International team of researchers has predicted this after adopting ...
made popular Nov 16 2006
Preparing’synthesis gas’ by heating oil and sugar like mixture! Scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a process of creating the syngas...
made popular Nov 6 2006
Pix: Using proprietary DNA extraction and cloning technologies, scientists have isolated the cellulose-degrading enzymes found in termites and created industrial...
made popular Oct 23 2006
If you are an environmentalist or an environment-conscious person, but lazy enough to do the running to meet the ambitions, here is a little solution for you - it is...
made popular Jul 28 2006
All un-electrified villages of India’s state of Mizoram will get electricity through varied renewable energy resources by next year. The hotbed for energy...
made popular Jun 19 2006
At last, Britain is banking on nature for tackling the effects of global warming. For heating and electricity, the country is turning to the giant grass corp -...
made popular May 27 2006
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