Tag: BIOFUEL

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. This ...

Raise a glass, and fill up your ride, too. Rightly so, the Scots (purveyors of some of the world's finest spirits) have found a way to power cars with leftover whiskey. According to the BBC News, researchers at Edinburgh Napier University used the delicious distilled drink's byproducts to create biobutanol, a fuel that's 30-percent more efficient than ethanol and can be put straight into a gas ...

Share Everyone's worried about energy, right? Whether it's the thought of a peak-oil catastrophe (while a zillion gallons fester in the Gulf), or just an ecological desire to go green, we've become a country that frets about our future power sources. And what about pacemakers, or artificial kidneys? We can't very well expect those to go solar, but it turns out that a sugary diet might be able to ...

Researchers at Stanford University have found a way to harvest 'green' electricity from algae. WonHyoung Ryu and her team enveloped a gold electrode in an algae cell membrane, and used it to trap electrons created during photosynthesis. This is 'green' energy in its purest form (and color), since only protons and oxygen are released during this process. "This is potentially one of the cleanest ...

Share We've told you about power plants that pull electricity from garbage. We've reported on a Formula 3 car that draws its power from chocolate. We even knew a guy that knew a guy, back in high school, who rigged his father's riding lawnmower to run on his grandfather's white lightning. Well, thanks to a few brainy Brits, we can now add coffee to the ever-growing list of funny fuels. ...

We've seen some interesting attempts at alternative fuels, not the least of which was Britain's Prince Charles powering his classic Aston Martin with wine. This latest one may take the cake, though -- a dark cake, as it were. A group of scientists and racing engineers at London's University of Warwick have developed a Formula 3 race car that runs on waste produced by the chocolate industry. ...

Since not killing the environment has for some reason become popular (and marketable/profitable) in the past six months, every company is making headlines for experimenting with alternative fuels. Take Air New Zealand: they just did a two hour test flight with a plane powered by a combination of regular gas and fruit oils. Fruit oils! The oils were derived from the Jatropha plant, a small, ...

Now that biofuels are pretty much out of the running to save our planet, the not-so-subtly-named, New York-based company called Zero Pollution Motors plans to produce a new kind of hybrid car: one that runs on compressed air and gets up to 106 miles per gallon. The car's engine would apparently work like a locomotive -- rather than steam, however, compressed air would move the pistons to propel ...

You know you have way too much booze around when you start to think about how to run your car on the stuff, a problem that Britain's Prince Charles is apparently afflicted by. The apparent wine lover (or hater, depending on how you look at it) has recently had his classic Aston Martin sports-car modified to run on ethanol created from excess wine that otherwise would have gone to waste. The ...

We've seen a lot of green gadgets and products coming to market lately, but we're pretty impressed with a new car that promises an high speeds and incredible mileage in a sporty, streamlined and eco-friendly design. Partially funded by the UK government, the green Lifecar project hopes to build excitement and support for zero-emissions technology. Built to be extremely efficient by a consortium ...