As world demand for available, cleaner energy sources increases, several candidates nudge to the front of the line of worthy successors to dirty-burning, petroleum based fuels. One such candidate is ethanol. However, there are non-trivial problems that arise in nearly all aspects of the ethanol supply...

While biofuels are generally supported by many individuals as being an ecologically friendly alternative to conventional petroleum-based fuels such as gasoline or diesel recently released findings from the European Commission in Brussels, released under the Freedom of Information Act, note that some...

Although most people’s concept of biofuels are liquids derived from plant animal byproducts harvested specifically for that purpose (such as corn being refined into ethanol for usage as fuel) one of the largest sources of available fuel to many biofuel enthusiasts isn’t a specially designed...

According to recent reports announced on the 22nd at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (more commonly known as the ACS) the same processed used for the picture generation in big-screen plasma televisions is being applied to biofuel generation processes as well. The device operating...

Inspired by a natural long-lived foam generated by the semi-tropical Tungara frog researchers have been able to generate a photosynthetic foam utilizing enzymes derived from bacteria, fungi, plants and of course the frog. The resulting foam is able to effectively convert carbon dioxide into sugar crystals,...