The United States navy, for its part, is placing its faith in biofuels. It has tested a biofuel made from the camelina plant in its F-18 Hornet jet. Next it will test biofuels in ship turbines. It is also installing stern flaps on its amphibious vehicles that can reduce fuel use by two to three per cent, and developing better coatings to prevent the growth of algae and barnacles on hulls that cause drag and increase fuel consumption. In October, the USS Makin Island, an amphibious assault ship, was the first of 12 hybrid-powered ships to take to the water. It saved nearly $2 million in fuel costs on its maiden voyage alone. At slow speeds, it runs only on an electric motor powered by the ship's auxiliary turbine. At higher speeds, the main turbine takes over. This is a step on the way t...
... (it's high in phosphorous) and even biofuel, although its oil content isn't believed to be hig...
...(i) tobacco;. (j) vegetable oils;. (k) algae;. (l) vegetable materials or other plant materials... production and use of cleaner, renewable biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel. More recently, the ...
[Gary Lunn] and other proponents estimate that tiny green microbes commonly associated with scummy lakes could capture as much as 100 million tonnes of CO2 now wafting out of coal-fired power plants and oilsands projects each year. That's more than 10 per cent of all the CO2 pumped out of Canada's smoke stacks and exhaust pipes. Ponds could be built close to big CO2 emitters, such as Saskatchewan's coal-fired power plants or Alberta's oil upgraders, and designed to optimize algal growth, says [Brent Lakeman]. "It's not like a wild Alberta lake or something. Lakeman agrees algae will not make a substantial dent in emissions anytime soon. But he and his colleagues see "potential for reducing CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes per annum by 2012."
... such valuable byproducts as methane gas, biofuel and animal feed. . "Algae are some of the fastest ...
... embrace a clean energy future is now." Biofuels will be part of that future. However, most policym... has just announced extra funding for algae-based biofuels. But with a viable new biofuel yet ...
... pristine lake can fill with unwanted algae, seemingly overnight. Furthermore, we often don't ...
... capitalists invested $208 million in algae technologies with this sort of thing in mind durin...
... as active producers of microalgae for biofuel and health-industry biochemicals, if researchers f... in area lakes, this particular type of algae is made up of "single-cellular little green things...
Slipping the car into reverse and -- quietly, electrically -- backing out, Sebastian is reminded by the fuel gauge it's time to fill up. "It's easy to forget," he thinks, largely because it's been three months since he's been at the gas station. The first month was the worst, what with his kids' hockey playoffs all over the city. He wasn't able to get all his driving done during his 70-kilometre electric-only limit. Since then, the diesel generator, which provides added electricity when the battery dies down, just hasn't cut in.
..., don't expect to see much in the way of biofuels in Dubai. There, in the sun-drenched, parched stre...Green slime. We often hear about algae when scientists are warning that it's suffocating ...
When you're in an airplane, you don't want your fuel to start solidifying," said Robert Dunn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture chemical engineer who is studying biodiesel jet fuel. The best bet right now for non-conventional fuel comes from South Africa, experts said. The country has powered its airline industry for a decade using a coal-based jet fuel blend developed by petrochemicals group Sasol. It's technically a "synthetic" fuel, which means it can be used without altering engines or other aircraft equipment. A number of U.S. companies are developing a variety of similar synthetics.
... New Zealand later this year will test a biofuel made from the oil-rich seeds of the jatropha tree,...Algae-based synthetic fuel is also getting a lot of atte...
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