BY: SHAWNTAE HARRIS A perfect sunny climate will certainly brighten everyone’s mood while simultaneously creating fuels that help, and not hinder, the environment. This is why an artificial sun is coming soon to Germany. They hope to create a larger…
Caltech scientists working to rid fuel of sulfur compounds in gasoline
BY RHIANN MOORE If the world is continually unable to find a way to regulate the excessive use of gasoline and diesel at least scientists at Caltech have developed a method to remove (potentially all) sulfur compounds from the gas.…
GravityLight to replace kerosene: company proposes a new alternative to where electricity isn’t an option.
If successfully integrated, a new electricity alternative will help one in five people around the world—that’s 20 percent of the earth’s population. It’s called GravityLight, and it essentially works in harmony with the earth’s tow, eliminating the use of kerosene…
Audi just invented a renewable fuel source from water and CO2
BY DANIEL KORN I don’t have to explain to you why gasoline is a crappy way to power cars, right? We can all just agree that a new fuel method is important to the future of our planet? Okay, great.…
Woman designs a device that converts your dog’s poo into home-electricity
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Could man’s best friend also be our homes’ main energy supply? Océane Izard, a Geneva School student studying her masters in Spaces and Communication is working on making that possible. Izard designed a product whimsically entitled Poo-Poo…
Researchers have developed a process to convert algae into crude oil in under an hour
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH Turning algae into crude oil is a process that is so inexpensive that the fuel could be sold for as low as $2 per gallon, according to a study done by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that…