Category: Gas
Green gasoline.
Researchers successfully convert plant cellulose into gasoline components.
Post date: Tuesday, April 8th, 2008.
Cow Power.
Energy company to begin producing natural gas from animal waste. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 14th, 2008.
Lyman alpha blobs.
Astronomers discover a massive object containing galaxies and gas bubbles that is 200 million light-years wide.
Post date: Friday, July 28th, 2006.
Pepfactants.
Technology that separates water and oil emulsions will be licensed to help increase current petroleum yields. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, June 14th, 2006.
Aquygen.
Gas mixture of water broken down into an HHO atomic structure can power an automotive engine and return to pure water as a by-product. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006.
A galaxy far, far away.
Astronomers discover molecular hydrogen 12.3 billion light-years away. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 10th, 2006.
Process for the Utilization of Ruminant Animal Methane Emissions.
Patent issued for device that captures bovine flatulence and turns it into nutritional biomass. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006.
United States Patent 6,055,910.
Fart-powered rocket launcher. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 10th, 2006.
LFG.
General Motors uses the gas produced from rotting garbage in landfills to power seven of its plants. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
JP900.
Researchers have powered a helicopter engine with coal-based jet fuel.
Post date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
Z Machine.
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin.
Post date: Wednesday, March 8th, 2006.
ComfortCools.
Ventilated seats in cars improve passenger comfort and increase gas mileage.
Post date: Friday, March 3rd, 2006.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Algae strain is being engineered to produce all of the world’s hydrogen needs.
Post date: Friday, February 24th, 2006.
Cellulosic ethanol.
Usuable energy produced cheaply and easily from farm waste digested in termite guts.
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
Methane hydrates.
Scientists discover frozen methane gas deposits on ocean floor.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Kicking the oil habit.
Iceland is moving permanently away from gasoline for its fuel needs. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Algae-to-oil race.
Algae used to reduce smokestack emissions has a byproduct of 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 12th, 2006.
Greenhouse gassers.
German scientists have discovered that plants contribute to global warming. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Event horizon.
Scientists have located the theoretical border of a Black Hole from beyond which not even light can escape.
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
BioWillie.
Willie Nelson has his own line of alternative diesel fuel. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 30th, 2005.
Leftovers to Lights.
California utility considering using food waste from restaurants to produce methane gas. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
BioPerformance.
Gasoline pills that increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. (via)
Post date: Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Non-renewable resource.
Kuwait’s largest oil field is beginning to run dry. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005.
Ooooh that smell.
DC officials unable to identify the source of the mysterious stench that smelled up the Northeast side of town ‘like skunk, rotten eggs and sulfur’ combined. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Buyer’s reward.
Mitsubishi says customers who buy a 2005 model year vehicle will get free gas for a year.
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
The old days.
Antique gas station pumps in Vermont unable to display gas prices at $2.99 and higher are forced to shut down.
Post date: Saturday, September 3rd, 2005.
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