All the stories tagged with biofuel

Air Canada makes its first biofuel flight using 50% cooking oil

06/19/2012, Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, has achieved its first feat to conduct a test-flight using 50% biofuel made from cooking oil. Fuel company SkyNRG provided the biofuel for Air Canada. In a press release prior [...]

Pickup truck on veggie fuel hits 155mph record

12/15/2011, Just how well does green fuel or biofuel stack up against the stuff that you pump into your vehicle’s gas tank at the local station? Well, members of the Greenspeed club decided to put their heavily modified Chevy pickup truck [...]

Boeing 747-8F To Cross The Atlantic On Biofuel

06/17/2011, Going green seems to be the rage these days and it was very recently that Virgin Airlines had announced that they are going to drop $1.4 billion on ultra fuel-efficient plane engines. Virgin’s reasoning behind this was that biofuel at [...]

Virgin Spends $1.4 Billion On Fuel Efficient And Ultra Quiet Jet Engines

06/16/2011, Airline companies offering the option to its passengers to pay for the carbon offset their airplanes emit isn’t exactly news but Virgin Airlines dropping $1.4 billion for ultra fuel-efficient engines is. Currently airplanes are flying on fossil fuel which is [...]

Ford looks into algae as fuel source

10/04/2010, It is said that the world will go to war over water in the future, where wars are already been fought over oil today. Well, there doesn’t seem to be any slowing down in the purchase of vehicles in developed [...]

Biofuel Made from Body’s Own Juices Can Lead to Implantable Devices

09/17/2010, Scientists have now developed a biofuel cell battery that is powered by your own biological juices. Implanted within the body, the glucose biofuel cell draws power from the body’s sugar and oxygen. It was recently implanted and tested in a [...]

Chicken droppings useful for generating electricity

08/19/2010, FuelCell Energy Inc. has come across another method to extract electrical power from, of all things, chicken droppings. Yes sir, the company recently managed to sell one of its 1.4-megawatt fuel-cell power plants which is able to convert chicken manure [...]