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- Boeing, Etihad, GE and MIST to build world’s first aquaculture and biofuel plant at Masdar City Wed, 21 Jan 15, 2:00amTraditionally, biofuels have a bad reputation for eating up precious land and water resources and pilfering food from the world's hungry. But a groundbreaking new bioenergy pilot plant at Masdar City, Abu Dhabi's growing...
- Scientists Convert Algae into Crude Oil in Less than One Hour Fri, 20 Dec 13, 7:00amDepartment of Energy scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say they’ve reduced nature's million year process of turning algae into crude oil to one than takes less than an hour...
- FAA Wants to Move Away from Leaded Gasoline by 2018 Thu, 13 Jun 13, 4:00amPhoto via Shutterstock Sometimes it seems like air transportation is the last to catch up with energy innovations. Busses, cars and trains regularly run on a variety of green options. But airplanes, with a few exceptions,...
- Plastic Waste-Powered Airplane to Fly 10,500 Miles from Sydney to London Tue, 26 Feb 13, 7:04amAustralian pilot Jeremy Rowsell is set to break new boundaries for alternative energy by flying from Australia to Britain in an airplane powered entirely by plastic waste...
- Boeing, Airbus and Embraer Partner to Develop Affordable Biofuels Sat, 24 Mar 12, 1:18amThe three major players in airplane manufacturing — Boeing, Airbus and Embraer — have announced an unlikely and exciting partnership to develop affordable biofuel technology which could be adopted industry wide...
- How Green Design Will Propel the Planes Of The 21st Century Tue, 2 Aug 11, 8:24amAircraft are responsible for a staggering 11% of the United States’ CO2 emissions, however a lot of work is being done to make them more environmentally friendly...