biodiesel

Borrowing from aviation’s golden age for our eco-friendly present

In a patriotic dairy-to-diesel demonstration project proving the breadth of fatty materials that can be converted into useable fuels, a...

A crowdsourced, street-legal rally racer; Neil Young's electric Lincoln Continental; tinkering with an Audi R8's computer for crazy horsepower boosts--and much more

The so-called green train is slated to run as a one-year experiment. Just how viable is it?

We know how to convert biomass to biodiesel, but the economics of doing so makes many prevailing methods of doing...

A deeper look at polar ice. An electric-car renaissance. The death and rebirth of major scientific experiments. Read on to discover what this year has in store

Lessons learned from my conversion of a 1984 Mercedes into a grease-mobile

As students everywhere return to school, the luckiest are heading for caves and rocket firing ranges instead of lecture halls

A clean fuel plays no less dirty when it comes to business practices

Looking for a clean fuel that grows anywhere, needs only sunlight and water, and could produce enough oil to free the U.S. from its petroleum addiction? Here´s one start-up's plan for converting oil from algae-yes, algae