The dream of a world running on a fuel that leaves only water vapor when it is burned, is becoming reality.

Cooking oil from restaurants and households can be recycled into biofuel. This is an environmentally friendly way to dispose cooking oil, while producing cost-efficient sources of fuel. To be turned into biofuels such as biodisel,...

USDA is helping to fund an effort to turn trees killed by beetles into biofuel.

Professor Tim Flannery investigates how seaweed is helping to save the world. From growing the foods of the future, helping clean polluted water and even combating climate change. An international seaweed expo explores how seaweed can be...

This video explores the significance of wheat as one of the world's most important crops. It highlights its historical impact, current uses, and potential for future sustainability. From being a staple food source to its role in...

What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...

In addition to providing nutrients to fuel our bodies, sorghum is also proving to be a useful crop in generating non-fossil fuels. Learn how sorghum stalks can be converted and burned to generate energy.<b<br/>r/>

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Learn the basics about the economic, environmental and social effects of biofuels as part of the fuels chapter within environmental chemistry.

A new approach to producing biofuels that uses a marine bacterium called Saccharophagus degradans that left otherwise alone, is mostly known for its damaging impact on the environment.



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