biofuels
Behold the First National Algal Biofuel Testbed
We need biofuels, and we need them #asap. Because peak oil is here, even if it's not technically "peak oil." Because oil is getting scarcer and harder to extract and more expensive and yet our global economy still pretty much depends on the black stuff...
Motherboard TV: How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution
Despite the best efforts of Republicans in Congress, the U.S. military really "wants biofuels":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/28/the-navy-wants-biofuels-but-congress-won-t-let-it-have-them--2. If the Pentagon ever gets its way, that kind of massive...
How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution
The biofuel industry has come a long way from filtering and burning old grease, with cellulosic and algal fuels that are miles more high tech than grease or fermented corn.
The Navy Wants Biofuels, But Congress Won't Let It Have Them
The lifeblood of a modern military is oil. Even the Navy, with all of its nuclear-powered vessels, still needs prodigious quantities of dino juice to power the multitudes of support ships and aircraft that make up the bulk of our fleet. Now, top brass...
Bioenergy Can't Compete With Our Taste for Meat
Biomass fuels have long been hailed as a real solution to carbon emissions, and theoretically it makes total sense: If you grow crops like switchgrass to produce biodiesel, carbon that’s released from burning the fuel was old carbon dioxide that had...
Bacteria that Eat Carbon and Poop Fuel Might Just Save the Planet
The biggest physical advantages of fossil fuels are that they're energy-dense and portable, which means they store a lot of power. That storage issue is one of the biggest barriers to developing a power grid reliant solely on renewable technologies...
Motherboard TV: Fuel: Josh Tickell Crossed the Country in a Winnebago Powered By French Fries
Back in pre-_Inconvenient Truth_ 2004, oil was mostly something we were fighting for, by extension, in the streets of Iraq. The danger of climate change (and the "risks of extracting oil":http://motherboard.tv/search/posts?keyword=oil+spill&commit...