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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...

Scientists are genetically engineering microbes to withstand industrial conditions for biofuel production. Researchers found that partially suppressing genes in cyanobacteria improved their growth ...