Environmental engineers at the University of Cincinnati have figured out how to make biodiesel, plus other fuels & products, from inedible food waste.
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The Waste Biz: How To Boost The Production Of Methane Gas From Landfills… Really
Why would you want a landfill to produce more methane gas? To make waste-to-energy systems profitable. This week’s edition of The Waste Biz.
Recycling Cooking Oil Into Fuel
Recycling cooking oil has turned into a municipal program in Barcelona: citizens use Olipots to collect & filter oil instead of dumping it down the drain.
What to Do with Used Cooking Oil: How about Turning it into Jet Fuel?
Boeing has come up with a novel idea of what to do with used cooking oil, particularly the large amounts coming from China: fuel planes with it.
SnagFilms’s Top 5 Earth Day Movies
To honor this year’s Earth Day, SnagFilms has brought to you a collection of excellent films that speak towards our need to protect our planet.
Enterprise Shifts North American Shuttle Fleet to Bio-Fuel
Enterprise Holdings, owners of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Alamo, and National, have announced plans to convert their entire North American fleet of airport shuttles buses to biofuels within the next five years.
Gator Glyss: Natural Soap Funds Biodiesel Production
Like many schools, the University of Florida has developed a number of programs and efforts to produce and promote renewable energy. Mechanical and aerospace engineering major Eric Layton saw an [ … ]
Hotel Metro in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Green, Hip and Central
I’m coming to the conclusion pretty fast that just about every hotel will eventually be walking the talk when it comes to going green – though some are walking slowly [ … ]
An Interview with Josh Tickell About His New Film, Fuel
When I first met Josh Tickell a few years ago, he was a blonde-haired, baby-faced, young man driving around the country in a diesel van painted with yellow sunflowers that [ … ]
ZapRoot: Google Causes Global Warming?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/PbmZcYbFSsA&hl=en&fs=1] This week at ZapRoot: Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time? The recycling market has gone bust. And check out “That’s Just Weird.”
In Praise of Poop 2: E. coli Waste as a New Form of Biofuel
Now that we have picked apart the many hidden wonders of cow manure, we may safely examine yet another, more recent entry in the annals of excellent excrement: E. coli. [ … ]
Managing High Gas Prices: Launch your own Green Business and Deduct Business Miles
Like the rest of nature that evolves remarkably to stresses in the environment, people will be able to adapt to high gas prices. Really. In many parts of Europe, people [ … ]
DIY Solar Generator
Cyndy at mousemusings points out a web site with instructions on how to make a small solar power generator “for $250 to $300.” I’m interested in what some of you [ … ]