A company banking on drivers' weariness of skyrocketing gasoline prices unveiled a home refinery device on Thursday offering another option: ethanol. E-Fuel Corporation says its EFuel100 MicroFueler can produce up to 35 gallons (132 liters) of ethanol a week that consumers can pump directly into their cars and trucks. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

New research shows that prairie grasses grown using only moderate amounts of fertilizer on marginal land can produce significant amounts of ethanol. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

It's a problem that he’s been fighting since he started selling ethanol last summer. Exxon-Mobil won't let him put his E-85 price on the sign because, according to King, “every gallon of E-85 we sell is a gallon of Mobil they don’t sell.”
*This should really be under crime. picked by dollyllama 9 months ago

A team of Texas A&M University researchers will soon be recovering artifacts from a 200-year-old shipwreck that lies more than 4,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico, making it the deepest such recovery effort ever attempted in the gulf. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Someone has killed seven trees on the Burke-Gilman Trail by lethal injection.
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department said Thursday that someone intentionally has killed seven, 70-foot-high trees along the trail at Northeast 77th Street, apparently by injecting herbicide into holes drilled into their trunks picked by bingo 2 months ago

A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said. picked by muppetmaker 9 months ago

Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on the island of Kauai without a permit, and the state has recommended she be fined. picked by punthe 1 year ago

New method to produce paper uses half as many trees. Xerox offers eco-paper to commercial users. picked by hisidea 1 year ago

Scientists say a new bacteria species discovered in Yellowstone's thermal pools could improve the use of bacteria to produce ethanol, which can be burned like gasoline. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Hemp powered cars were the dream of both Henry Ford and Rudolf Diesel. It's a major source of ethanol that would allow the use to curb food shortages as a result of Corn and Grain Farmers being asked to sell their grain to ethanol manufacturers. picked by tigertony 5 months ago

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if production can be scaled up. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a week long examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there. picked by Neiako 2 years ago

11 photos of amazing trees featured on the karmapanda site. picked by SkandarGraun 2 months ago

Studies of fir trees in Norway may lead to earlier detection of breast cancer. picked by suebe 2 weeks ago

The fiery red hues that seem to set forest leaves ablaze in autumn are produced in part as a result of the soil that trees grow in and help protect the trees in the winter, a new study finds. picked by eljay 12 months ago

The original Game Boy is one of the toughest gadgets. Rumor has it this beige behemoth isn’t made of plastic, but from the skulls of fallen Gurkhas. If you ever saw one that was broken, it’s because it lost a boxing match with a nuclear bomb — on points.

Here is a Game Boy that was attacked during the Gulf War. It still works to this very day. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

After decades of feeding cattle and securing topsoil in the Great Plains, switchgrass — a feathery perennial native to the region — is being groomed for a new role: green energy production. A five-year field study found that ethanol made from switchgrass yields 5.4 times the amount of fossil fuel energy it takes to grow, harvest and convert the grass to fuel. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art. picked by karenben 6 months ago

Chinese surgeons who operated on a baby girl with breathing problems were amazed to find grass growing on her lung. The 10-month baby girl, from Zhoukou city, was initially diagnosed with pneumonia but the symptoms didn’t improve after several days of treatment. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Hungarian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered a group of fossilized swamp cypress trees preserved from 8 million years ago which could provide clues about the climate of pre-historic times. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago