The drive to develop sustainable energy sources through harnessing the readily available power of the wind has been a major focus for mankind for centuries, with windmills designed to do just this and reduce the overall manual labor necessary for everyday tasks being established in countries all around...

While many people tend to believe that biofuel cars and other biomass-powered engines are a modern trend in fact they date back to even before petroleum-based vehicles and machinery established themselves as the primary mode of transportation and source or power in our modern societies. Debuting in Augsburg,...

Cellulose is one of the most abundant organic compounds, available primarily in the primary and secondary cell walls of green plant matter, as well as in some algae, bacteria and some fungus-like organisms. Cellulose can be converted into biofuels, most commonly cellulosic ethanol, via chemical pre-treatment...

Finding a sustainable, realistic source of energy has long been a goal for many developers around the world, with some countries investing heavily in alternative energy production methods in order to better develop both a strong infrastructure for power generation as well as help offset their own individual...

Biodiesel, known also as B100 and fatty acid methyl esters –- or FAME — is an alternative transportation fuel. It is usually synthesized in a process called trans-esterification by combining certain lipids, such as animal fat, with an alcohol. Biodiesel has several distinct advantages over its...