Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel

Source: spectrum.ieee.org Published: November 23, 2016 By Andrew Silver Sanivation’s poop-based fuel briquettes finish cooling and drying on racks. Photo: Sanivation In August 2015—after a couple of years of testing—a company in Kenya began commercially...

MIT Researchers Turn Waste Gas into Liquid Fuel

Source: theguardian.com Published: March 7, 2016 Using waste gases from power stations to create low-carbon liquid fuels would be a major advance in the battle against global warming. Photograph: Jon Woo/REUTERS Successful trial at a pilot plant in China using...

Bright Idea: Glow-in-the-Dark Dye Could Power Cars

Source: livescience.com Published: November 17, 2016 BODIPY dye glows brightly under a black light. Credit: Douglas Levere By Jesse Emspak If the world one day sees a boom in electric cars and renewable energy, people will need more efficient batteries than are...

Scientists Accidentally Turn Pollution into Renewable Energy

Source: independent.co.uk Published: October 19, 2016 Carbon dioxide is turned into ethanol ( Oak Ridge National Laboratory) ‘Carbon dioxide is a problem right now. If we can use it, then we’re preventing it from going into the atmosphere’ Ian Johnston Scientists have...