On Chicago's near West Side, high school students are refining used cooking oil from local restaurants into usable biodiesel. They brought their biodiesel-fueled go-kart to an Illinois Department of ...

Researchers have developed a novel method to produce biodiesel from waste oil. This simple process requires relatively mild heat and has the potential to make the alternative fuel source much more ...

Etruk has devised a method to produce biodiesel within the comfort of your own home, using their Home Biodiesel Processing Plant. The unit utilises biological sources such as vegetable oil to produce ...

ALBANY — Low-carbon, alternative fuels, everything from soybean oil to leftover restaurant cooking oil, could power vehicles and home heating systems in New York State under proposed legislation aimed ...

To make beer and wine, a microscopic fungus called yeast consumes sugars in fruits or grains and converts them into ethanol (alcohol) and carbon dioxide. But the microbe yeast cannot tolerate ...

Algal cultivation is an effective way to produce biomass, a renewable energy source that can be directly converted into biofuel—a fuel source that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The current ...

Researchers have developed a new solid catalyst for biofuel production that speeds the reactions and remain separate from the materials, allowing it and the waste to ...

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(Bloomberg) -- The White House is gearing up to finally announce its new rules on biofuel blending, critical support for the industry that’s underpinned American farming over the past two decades. But ...