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Water as Fuel
Science & Tech  (tags: Water as, Fuel, Stanley Meyer, Recollections )

Agnes
- 484 days ago - pesn.com
Andrew Michrowski pulls from his archives to retell his experience of working with the late Stanley Meyer, who allegedly ran a dune buggy on nothing but water, using an electrolysis process that somehow extracted energy from the environment.
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Spanish Scientists Search for Fuel of the Future
Science & Tech  (tags: fuel, Spanish scientist, bio-oil, petroleum )

Anna
- 783 days ago - news.yahoo.com
In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have found the fuel of tomorrow: bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.Almost 400 of the green tubes, filled with millions of microscopic algae....
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Synthetic Gasoline For $1.50/Gallon and No Emissions
Science & Tech  (tags: Synthetic Gasoline, Emissions, fuel, oil, co2 )

Anna
- 846 days ago - news.discovery.com
Administrations dating back to the Nixon years have touted a "get off foreign oil" policy that, to date, has really gone no where. We're still on foreign oil. But now we might have a chance to get on foreign synthetic gasoline.
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New Reactor Paves the Way for Efficiently Producing Fuel From Sunlight
Science & Tech  (tags: Reactor, Fuel, Sunlight, energy )

Anna
- 854 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Using a common metal most famously found in self-cleaning ovens, Sossina Haile hopes to change our energy future. The metal is cerium oxide -- or ceria -- and it is the centerpiece of a promising new technology developed by Haile and her colleagues that..
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Satellite to Explore Astronaut Poop as Fuel Source
Science & Tech  (tags: satellite, space, fuel, astronaut )

Sophie
- 915 days ago - wired.com
The United Nations' first satellite, the $5 million UNESCOSat project, has a pretty clear goal: to find out if astronauts' faeces can be used as an effective fuel source in space.
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Making Eco-Friendly Diesel Fuel From Butter
Science & Tech  (tags: diesel, fuel, butter, biodiesel )

Sophie
- 1028 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The search for new raw materials for making biodiesel fuel has led scientists to an unlikely farm product -- butter.
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Water Oxidation Advance Boosts Potential for Solar Fuel
Science & Tech  (tags: water, oxidation, solar, fuel )

Leslie
- 1159 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.
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Japanese Researchers Turn Raw Garbage Into Fuel Matching Heat Output Of Coal
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, fuel, heat output, same as coal, Shizuoka University, Japan, raw garbage and waste plastic, sulpher oxide, refuse-derived fuel, RDF, environment )

Naoko
- 1175 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
Technology to produce fuel with the same heat output as coal from raw garbage and waste plastic has been developed by a group of Japanese researchers. Takeshi Sako of Shizuoka University's Faculty of Engineering and other researchers developed a way to
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An Italian Laser Finds How to Produce Hydrogen From Water
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, world, study, scientists, NewTechnology, interesting, italy, hydrogen, water, h20 laser, energy, fuel )

Heather
- 1401 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The method discovered by researcher Roberto Bini and his team from the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy - University of Florence, uses lasers to produce hydrogen from water under high pressure.
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Airlines Could Save $10 Billion a Year With GPS
Science & Tech  (tags: airlines, GPS, fuel, costs, air traffic, NewTechnology )

Eduardo
- 1683 days ago - usatoday.com
U.S. airlines could save $10 billion a year in fuel costs by 2025 if the FAA upgrades to a satellite-based air-traffic control system. As for the upgraded "NextGen" plan, AP says it would cost $35 billion.
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How PBS and Chevron Killed Alternative Fuel in 1983
Science & Tech  (tags: SOCIAL engineering, money, oil, PBS, how to make, alcohol, for, fuel, replace, gasoline, censorship, transportation, society, War, war crimes, corruption, americans, ethics, freedoms, media, world, sadness, tv )

Gregory
- 1719 days ago - brasschecktv.com
VIDEO:Twenty-five year ago, America and the rest of the world could have solved its gasoline problem once and for all. But PBS and Chevron had other ideas.A multi-trillion dollar fraud that hooked the modern world on gasoline and methodically buried
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Drivers Mixing Ethanol With Gas to Save Money
Science & Tech  (tags: gasoline, ethanol, car, fuel )

Eduardo
- 1791 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
To save money and support neighboring farms, Scott Dubbelde began mixing gasoline and cheaper, ethanol-based fuel in his cars years ago, driving first to the gasoline pump, and then to the ethanol pump.
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Call for Delay to Biofuels Policy
Science & Tech  (tags: Sustainability, biofuels, environment, UK, UE, BBC, renewable, fuel, ethanol, sugar cane, food prices, carbon debt, agriculture )

LL
- 1885 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The UK's chief environment scientist has called for a delay to a policy demanding inclusion of biofuels into fuel at pumps across the UK. Professor Robert Watson said ministers should await the results of their inquiry into biofuels' sustainability.
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Aptera's $26,000 Electric Car and 300 MPG Hybrid Coming Soon : Gas 2.0
Science & Tech  (tags: aerodynamics, Aptera, automobiles, cars, electric car, electricity, fuel, fuel economy, hybrid, PHEV, plug-in, science, technology, transportation )

Clayton
- 1897 days ago - gas2.org
For under $30,000, you will soon be able to buy an electric car with a 120 mile range, or a plug-in hybrid that gets 300 miles-per-gallon. Sound like a fantasy, but this one could be coming to a dealer near you. Slated for release in 2008 [see story].
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