Algal blooms could make your car zoom

Posted by  in Friday, October 26th 2007   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

There’s a growing buzz about making renewable fuel biodiesel from farmed algae. Single celled algae are some of the planet’s oldest, fastest multiplying forms of life. They also happen to have a big hunger for greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and the resulting biodiesel could cut emissions from cars. Scientists have been talking about it for decades and the U.S. National Renewable [...]

Botanist sees “injuring” of redwoods as good for the forest

Posted by  in Thursday, August 9th 2007   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

Steve Sillett smiled as he told a recent after-hours gathering at New York’s American Museum of Natural History about the slice of the Mark Twain redwood tree.
Loggers cut down the tree in 1891. A slice was sent from California to the U.S. East Coast and wound up in the museum to teach the rest of the country [...]

Crawfish, turtle soup and … Red Wigglers?

Posted by  in Tuesday, July 10th 2007   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

At this year’s Taste of Chicago, billed as the world’s largest food festival, people weren’t the only ones digesting. Steps from the stands operated by city restaurants serving up delights like crawfish boils and turtle soup, red wigglers slithered in bins filled with rotting lettuce and carrot peels.
Volunteers from the University of Illinois brought the [...]

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