Tag Archives: Biofuels

Someday, your toilet could power your home. At least, that's if researchers are successful in their attempts to convert urine into biofuel.

Finding new ways to make eco-friendly biofuels is going to be crucial to surviving this whole global warming thing. That’s why it’s so exciting that someone’s figured out how to power jets with alga. A synthetic biology company named Solazyme has figured out how to make jet fuel using oil produced by caged marine microorganisms. Other companies are researching algal ...