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Elephant Dung Helps Scientists Develop New Biofuel
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered a fungus in elephant dung that will help them break down fibres and wood into biofuel.
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Planet Ark - Elephant Dung Helps Scientists Develop New Biofuel
I love this story
Here you have all these scientists poking around in elephant poo
Terrific!
It is a joy and wonder that such people exist
Reminds me of the Hero of the film "The Gods Must Be crazy" one of the funniest movies of all time (made in S. Africa)
It also shows the importance of pure research.
Collecting knowledge for knowledge's sake rather than to solve a problem or make money.
Some recent articles on the subject
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What's the Best Biofuel? Researchers Found Out
Study results revealed that, compared with gasoline and diesel, ethanol and biodiesel reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%, reed canarygrass by 85%, and switchgrass & hybrid poplar by about 115%.
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Green Car Congress: Researchers Evaluate Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Different Cropping Systems
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Palm Oil: The Biofuel of the Future Driving An Ecological Disaster
environment.guardian.co.uk
The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in history. With them will disappear some of the world's most important wildlife species, victims of the rapacious destruction. . .
conservationists believe the move to clear land for this "green fuel" is often little more than a conspiracy
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Palm oil: the biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now | Energy | Guardian Unlimited Environment
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Deadly Nut Tapped as Biofuel Source
On a large tract of land in Thailand's dusty northeast, Suwit Yotongyot hopes to make a fortune on jatropha, a plant with a poisonous nut that might hold the key to the nation's energy troubles.. . .
The nuts are more than 30 percent oil, which burns with a clear flame, producing a fraction of the emissions of traditional diesel. As a bonus, the oil can be used in simple diesel engines without refining, just by mixing it with fuel.. . .
bushes are easy to grow, start producing nuts quickly, and are resistant to drought
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Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Deadly Nut Tapped as Biofuel Source
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Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales
- earthmeanders.blogspot.com
Two of the biggest, most dangerous lies about global warming are that clean coal exists and the world's forests are adequate to provide biofuel. Dirty coal and industrial forest harvest for energy only speed up the planet's ecosystem's destruction. . . .
The world's forests have been hammered for millennia; and are barely able to continue
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Earth Meanders: Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales
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Wild flowers could provide a solution to global warming
IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
Research has found the naturally occurring mix of plants on the American prairie provide more than twice as much energy as the corn or soybean crops that have previously been considered as sources of biofuel.. . .The native perennial grasses and flowering plants provide a much better environment for wildlife than a monocrop plantation and converting them into biofuel actually reduces the amount of carbon in the atmosphere while the standard fuel crops add a small amount.
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Scotsman.com News - International - Wild flowers could provide a solution to global warming
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Will Sweet Potatoes Give You Gas?
sustainablog.blogspot.com
Of course, I'm talking about biofuel -- what were you thinking? Anyway, biopact takes note of the planned development of a integrated biogas-ethanol plant in the African nation of Guyana that would use sweet potatoes, cassava and rice residue as the feeds
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sustainablog: Will Sweet Potatoes Give You Gas?
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Ethanol More Energy Efficient Than Thought
news.nationalgeographic.com
A new study now suggests that the most important biofuel—ethanol, which is made from corn in the United States—is more energy efficient than previously thought.
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Ethanol More Energy Efficient Than Thought, Study Says
