The US Navy: Turning The Oceans Into Fuel
US Navy Energy Needs The United States Navy is currently the largest one in the world. With 272 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 aircraft in active service (as of September 2015), it is...
View ArticleScientists Transform Plastic Trash Into Liquid Fuel
Plastic Gold While several companies and institutions have been working at reducing the world's plastic waste, they are hampered by the lack of means to dispose of them. The most common plastic,...
View ArticleCaptured CO2 Can be Directly Recycled into Methanol Fuel
A fuel source that actually helps the environment, instead of further polluting it, could soon be a reality. G.K. Surya Prakash, USC Researchers have demonstrated that CO2 captured from the air can be...
View ArticleScientists Create 'Nano-Reactor' for the Production of Hydrogen Biofuel
Water as Fuel Around 70% of the Earth is covered by water. A majority of the human body is also composed of water. The simple compound is one of the most abundant in the world, so being able to harness...
View ArticleNew Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Help Combat Global Warming
Nitrogenase 101 The quest for making fuel 'out of thin air' is on at the University of Washington. In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have...
View ArticleSoon, You Could Charge Your Electric Vehicle at Your Local Gas Station
The transportation industry is working hard to transition from petrol-powered, greenhouse-gas emitting vehicles to sustainable, electric powered vehicles. To that end, even the biggest names in oil and...
View ArticleNew Process That Converts Human Generated Waste Into Fuel In Space
The process could produce 290 liters of methane per crew per day, all produced in a week The process also would produce about 200 gallons of non-potable water annually from all the waste In...
View ArticleMIT Scientists Created a New Method of Turning CO2 into Fuel
Waste Not, Want Not Researchers at MIT have created a new method of turning carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into a useful product. The resulting substance could be used as fuel for cars,...
View ArticleCheap Hydrogen Fuel Was A Failed Promise. But Its Time May Have Arrived.
Hydrogen fuel cells were supposed to be the next big thing. Their promise peaked during the gas crisis of the 1970s as a clean energy source to power cars and electric plants, hydrogen fuel never truly...
View ArticleNew Chemistry Technique Turns Waste Plastic Into Clean Fuel
Fuel Rules Waste plastic is choking the Earth's oceans and poisoning its wildlife. That's why researchers at Purdue University are excited about a new chemical technique technique that turns waste...
View ArticleNew Tech Puts NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Spacecraft in Space
Refuelling in Space NASA just successfully demonstrated the first of three tools designed to refuel spacecraft in space, right outside of the International Space Station. The space agency's Robotic...
View ArticleAstronauts Could Fuel Their Return Trip Using Mars' Atmosphere
Pit Stop Scientists are working on a portable system that could help astronauts on Mars fuel up for their return trip using the atmosphere around them. Using atmospheric carbon dioxide and water from...
View ArticleInventor Says He's Built a Real Life Flying Motorcycle
David Mayman, the founder of JetPack Aviation, says he fell in love with flight because with three uncles and a cousin employed as pilots, it's in his blood. He didn't just want to fly planes, though....
View ArticleGuy Turns Tesla Model 3 Into Giant "Mad Max"-Esque Tank
Frankentank A group of German engineers converted a Tesla Model 3 into a hulking beast to take it off-roading. As seen in an eight minute YouTube video, the gearheads spent four weeks adding giant...
View ArticleSolar Powered Machine Turns CO2 and Waste Plastic Into Valuable Fuel
In promising news for our humanity-burdened planet, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge say they've built a machine that transforms both CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuel and...
View ArticleWoman Discovers Trick to Get $27,000 in Free Gas
Gas Her Up A Nebraskan scammer found a gas pump software glitch that allowed her to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gas — until the owners caught onto her, that is. As Lincoln's 1011 Now...
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