Last year wasn’t the first time American’s felt panic at the pump. In 1973, an oil embargo created a gas shortage which spread chaos across the country. America is dependent on foreign oil, and it often takes major incidents like these to lead to greater interest in alternative energy. Three years ago, research began at [...]
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Townsend Oil, headquartered on Cherry Street in Danvers, has already trademarked the word “BioPure” for the mix of biofuels in their home heating oil, hoping to win advantage in the race to be “green.”
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Through biofuels and other alternative energy sources, America has the capability to wean itself from fossil fuels that could start to run out by 2050, a biofuels advocate told a conference Thursday in Temecula Valley Wine Country.
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A clean-burning oil can be extracted from the jatropha tree’s seeds, which can be immediately used to power generators or be refined into biodiesel. The trees can grow even in the driest and most nutrient-depleted soils, so it doesn’t have to take up arable land needed to grow food.
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The European Union is preparing to impose trade duties on U.S. biofuels to prevent American producers from putting European producers out of business, diplomats said.
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Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory are teaming up with a California company to research how best to produce biofuel from algae, that slimy, green aquatic weed.
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Japan Airlines have conducted a flight partly powered by a biofuel produced from the plant camelina. The Boeing 747-300 took off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport for a flight lasting around one and a half hours.
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