Aug
3
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel. The researchers report on the new technology in Nature Energy. The researchers harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert CO2, water and sunlight into multicarbon […]
Nov
7
New Process Makes Ethanol From Crop Wastes
November 7, 2017 | 4 Comments
Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable way. Nair said, “I have been verifying a process that we hope will work in an industrial scale, when it comes to using existing ethanol factories. Thanks […]
Sep
19
Mining Exotic Animal Guts for Microbes
September 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment
There is an effort world wide to find microbes to breakdown cellulosic and lignin based vegetable matter for producing fuels. Ashli Brown, Ph.D., at Mississippi State University and her students are working at the gut microbes used to breakdown bamboo. Unlikely as it may sound, giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le in the Memphis […]
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