Watermelon Juice May Be Next "Green" Fuel

Wayne Fish, chemist, at the Agricultural Research Service in Oklahoma has shown that ethanol fuel from watermelon juice may be the next 'green' fuel.  Because consumers of watermelons only want melons that...

EPA: Algae as Advanced Biofuel

EPA will count algae as an advanced biofuel in the renewable fuels standard, responding to the growing interest, encouraged by Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical. Exxon announced its plans to invest $600 million...

The Carbon Con

How realistic is it to go green? Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but can good policy help? The Kyoto Protocol divides the world into two groups. The roughly 1.2 billion citizens of...

Scientists accuse California Air Resource Board of bias

Biofuels are once again becoming a hot topic in legislative circles.  After falling off of the radar screen due to a continual onslaught of negative press and scientific reports claiming that biofuels...

Bashing biofuels to make them better

Recent developments in the biofuel story have given no guarantee that a biofuel industry will be set up in time to help the building environmental crisis (in fact many new reports say biofuels are making it worse);...

'Vegawatt' converter turns french fries into fuel

A new company called Owl Power is putting all of that used french fry oil to good use-  with the invention of the 'Vegawatt' converter. This may be bad news for people like my friend Tim, who has been filling...

Air New Zealand plane flies on Jatropha oil

Air New Zealand just successfully completed a 2 hour test flight in a Boeing 747 using a “second generation” biofuel. The flight took place on Tuesday and used a 50-50 blend of jatropha oil fuel, and regular jet...

Starbucks to fuel your car?

From Champoli - stories, heroes and videos that inspireCoffee is well known for being able to power the economic engine that is the global workforce.  It might fill the tank of an individual but certainly...

Changing the Course of the World's Fuel Future

Each morning, Alex Conger rises from bed at 5am, climbs the stairs to his home office, and fires up his computer.  Several monitors flicker to life and almost immediately chat windows begin to appear on one...

Brazil, Land & Ethanol

Now and then I read and listen people saying that Brazil is cropping its trees to increase fuel production. I just read the same thing again here in NowPublic and because of that I would like to share some...

4.2 million new 'green' jobs predicted

New study shows that shifting to 40% renewable electricity production and 30% biofuel by 2038 will create 4.2 million jobs."WASHINGTON - A major shift to renewable energy and efficiency is expected to produce 4.2...