Homegrown’s alright with me
DOE Secretary Chu says “We have only just begun to realize the benefits of homegrown fuels.”
Politics in the Zeros
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Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Tag biofuel
Tobacco can aid in batteries and renewable energy
The Tobacco Mosaic Virus binds itself to electrodes and enables the battery to discharge faster and increases capacity too. GMO tobacco produces large amoungt of oil and may find use as biofuel and an enzyme in it can break down…
Sustainable biofuel from oranges and tobacco
Florida alone generates enough orange peels to produce about 200 million gallons of ethanol yearly. The secret ingredient is a tobacco enzyme derived by cloning genes from fungi and bacteria, which is far less expensive than creating synthetic enzymes. The…
Glycerin byproduct from biofuel refining now being reused
Prodigious amounts of glycerin are produced as a byproduct of biofuel, and sometimes was being landfilled. However, scientists now have devised a multitude of ways it can be used and reprocessed. Waste glycerin can be made into a profit center,…
Biofuel from carbon dioxide in air
Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. The process uses no fresh water or biomass and no refinement is needed. The sun shines. The microbes produce…