alternative fuel
02/18/2018
/
By David Williams
Qantas biofuel-powered airliner required 150 acres of farm land to grow the fuel for a single flight
The world’s first biofuel flight between the U.S. and Australia was achieved with great success by the teams behind it — Qantas and Agricoma Biosciences rejoiced publicly as they both announced the completion of their historic flight. However, while the benefits of switching from conventional fossil fuels to biofuels for cross-country flights might be clear […]
01/04/2018
/
By Frances Bloomfield
Cool multi-use invention: Street lamp powered by dog poop has proven to be a successful green energy and waste management combo in the U.K.
From littering walkways and streets to illuminating them, dog poop may soon be fueling streetlamps across the United Kingdom. That’s already happening in Malvern Hills, an iconic landscape in England and home of the United Kingdom’s first dog poop-powered street lamp. The brainchild of Brian Harper, a member of the environmental group Transition Malvern Hills, […]
12/31/2017
/
By Janine Acero
Beer as a renewable fuel: Vehicles could run on it 2022, without having to be altered
Beer could soon replace diesel and gasoline as a promising source of sustainable motor fuel by 2022, thanks to chemists who developed a method for converting the alcoholic beverage into a new type of fuel without the need to alter the vehicles. Scientists from the University of Bristol have managed to create fuel from beer by converting […]
« Return Home
1 of 1
Popular Articles
COPYRIGHT © 2017 ECOLOGY NEWS