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Eco Factor: Bacteria can produce biofuel from non-food biomass. New research could lead to the end of the fuel versus food controversy regarding biofuels. Scientists are presently experimenting with bacteria called “Anaerocellum” that is said..

Eco Factor: Carbon neutral process uses electricity to generate methane. A team of Penn State Engineers have developed a new technique that could possibly convert electricity into methane, using self-perpetuating microorganisms commonly found in...

EcoFactor: Instead of depending on crude oil and natural gas to obtain the monomers for plastics, they could be synthesized by bacteria. Scientists at San Diego-based sustainable chemical company Genomatica Inc. have made an interesting discovery..

Ethanol could be the fuel of the future thanks to studies done by researchers at Washington University. They have discovered a process by which fermenting bacteria are guided into breaking down the waste products during the process into methane,...

Though the concept of using microbes to power fuel cells has been around for a while, the green blogoshpere actively buzzes when some fresh news about such bugs surface. We need to change our perceptions about microbes and redefine bacteria as in this..

The world's annual consumption of plastic materials has increased from around 5 million tons in the 1950s to much more then100 million tons today. People worldwide seem to have a love–hate affair with plastic. Although we are aware that plastic...

Researchers at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University have come up with an alternative way of generating electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues..

Wastes can be broadly segregated as organic and inorganic wastes. While organic wastes are those that are natural, like wastes from kitchens comprising vegetable skin, stalk etc, inorganic wastes are usually those with chemical components. So far, we.

The quest for alternative fuel is taking man in all directions. While it is understandable that he is using every possible source to meet his energy needs, I’m still amazed at the dimensions that he deals with. Human beings as a race it seems...

Here is another weird way of making energy. While its inventors hail it as the best thing around & other hyperbole which seems to have become common in modern advertising & journalism, this is not really all that marvelous as you think it is. While I.