These will be the first commercially available bioluminescent houseplants and could eventually be used as a functional light source.More info: http://bit.ly/1bkVVtj
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Sweden Needs More Trash
28th January 2014 – 17:09
Sweden does something unique; the country turns trash into power on a national scale (using high-power incinerators). This solves two problems: getting rid of trash before it piles up and generating electricity without burning environmentally-harmful fossil fuels. In fact Sweden does not produce enough trash to supply the populations energy needs so they are importing […]
E. coli is capable of producing a diesel substitute
17th May 2013 – 12:12
Strains of E. coli bacteria are capable of producing a biofuel almost identical to diesel. The importance of the discovery hinges around the idea of “drop-in” fuels — that existing technology which runs on diesel would not need to be modified in order to utilise the biofuel meaning the costs to business of switching energy […]