Discarded materials can make an excellent alternative fuel source to meet the high-heat and high-energy demands of industries that traditionally burn coal. While refuse-derived fuel (RDF) has been ...

UNION BRIDGE -- The Lehigh Portland Cement Co. plant in Union Bridge, just over the border of Frederick County in Carroll County, is planning a trial run with "engineered fuel" that could take the ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace ...

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The aviation industry has been looking for ways to reduce its global carbon footprint for the past decade, such as purchasing so-called carbon offsets—like tree-planting projects or wind farms—to make ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow. Joule Unlimited has invented a ...

Startups have tried making fuel with engineered bacteria before. Can Cemvita Factory succeed? A startup using genetically engineered microbes, light, and carbon dioxide in an attempt to make an ...

Davco’s re-engineered Fuel Pro 483 fuel preheater for diesel engines now has internal passages and four coolant ports to allow the use of engine coolant as a heating source when the truck is on the ...

Scientists have engineered a bacterium that can take carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuel in a single enzymatic step. The process draws on sunlight to produce methane and hydrogen inside ...

Who among us has not thrown a questionable item into the recycling bin — a piece of thin or gnarled plastic, or some cheap paper we might have wondered about. Not all of it is good enough to actually ...

Nick Florin receives funding from CSIRO and Federal and State government agencies. Ben Madden receives funding from Federal and State government agencies The federal government recently announced that ...