Scottish researchers
have developed what they call a “super” biofuel using
by-products of whiskey production. Given the enormity of Scotland’s £4 billion ($6 billion) whiskey industry, scientists say there is the potential for whiskey biofuel to emerge as a significant source of fuel for cars and even airplanes.
posted by stbalbach
on Aug 18, 2010 -
40 comments
Inspired by a recent
Wall Street Journal* article, Robert Rapier, chemical engineer, peakist, blogger, and currently chief technology officer for a bioenergy company, reviews the
pretenders,
contenders, and
niche players in the emerging field of green energy, with particular consideration of liquid fuels. Meanwhile, the boffins at Foreign Policy consider the
risks of the coming of the green energy era, and
depict the end of the oil age. (Both part of FP's extensive look at the
end of oil;
previously.)
[more inside]
posted by Diablevert
on Sep 8, 2009 -
19 comments
Last weekend's
PICNIC'07 conference in Amsterdam featured a
Green Challenge: to come up with the best marketable green idea that could be developed and sold to consumers within two years. Dutch decentralized renewable energy company
Qurrent took down the big €500,000 prize for the
Qbox: a device which creates optimizing energy algorithms for all devices in a home.
See also:
Green Thing.
posted by chuckdarwin
on Oct 1, 2007 -
10 comments
