Vehicles powered by diesel contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making the journey toward decarbonization a tough road. According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, in ...

At many biodiesel plants, soybean oil accounts for as much as 80 percent of the operating cost. Wake Forest's Terrafinity project doesn't depend on soybean oil. It relies on a method that, like making ...

The U.S. is on pace to surpass 5 billion gallons of biodiesel and renewable diesel consumption for the first time ever. According to the Clean Fuels Alliance, 2024 saw increased efforts from states to ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the ...

Biodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning fuel. It’s made through a chemical reaction that relies on animal fats or vegetable oils and an alcohol. The technical term for this process is ...

Biodiesel is all around us -- in our ferries, buses, garbage trucks, passenger cars, tractors, Army trucks, sailboats and more -- yet surveys show that only one in four people knows about this ...

We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality similar ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Major British independent oil firm Greenergy sees its future as an exploration company, but one that hunts for fuel in piles of stale pork pies and cakes rather than under the ...

WALTERS -- Rest easy, because that chemistry kit in the barn of Thad Doye's farm is not what you might be thinking. Get your mind off the moonshine and into the healthy sunrise of energy independence.