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How Germs Can Keep Your Motor Runing

Jason Tetro | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: High Gas Prices, Fungi, Cows, Biofuels, Microbial Factories, Horses, Clean Energy, Vacation, Germs, Gas-Savings, Germs for fuelCanadian Government, Dr. Michelle O'Malley and Fungus Bacteria, Canadain Road Trip, Increasing Gas Prices, Alternative Fuel Cars, Alternative Fuel Enegry Barack Obama, Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Biofuel, Canada Impact News
Jason Tetro

2012-05-28-GermGuyBanner.jpgThe use of germs to produce biofuels has been in exploration since the mid-1990s, but finding the right organisms is a difficult task. The horse rumen has a vast array of environmental bacteria and ...something else. Could this be the treasure trove scientists are looking for?

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Geoengineering Is a Dangerous Solution to Climate Change

Rachel Smolker | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada
Read More: Co2, Tar Sands, Geoengineering, Biochar, Climate Change, Biofuels, Biochar-Offset, Geoengineering Climate Change, Biofuel Watch, Canada News
Rachel Smolker

As the realities of global climate change become ever more alarming, advocates of technological approaches to "geoengineer" the planet's climate are gaining a following. But these technologies that are promoted are all fraught with clear and obvious risks that are most likely only going to make matters worse.

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Tapping (Mountains of) Trash for Landfill Gas

David Dodge | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada
Read More: Recycling, Landfills, Biofuels, Edmonton, Waste Management, Waste, Alberta, Landfill, Slidepollajax, Garbage, Canada News
David Dodge

Apple cores, pumpkins, Christmas trees and the crusts your mom cut off your sandwich 27 years ago. They all ended up at Cloverbar landfill in Edmonton...

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Turning Human Waste Into Energy Savings

David Dodge | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Rural Communities, Biomass, Biofuels, Waste Management, Waste Treatment, Alberta, Waste, Slidepollajax, Canada, Rural Development, Camrose County, Alberta Willow Trees Energy, Willow Tree, Willow Trees Energy, Canada Business News
David Dodge

Sewage, biosolids, wastewater, effluent, human waste and night soil -- these are all euphemisms for poo. But instead of looking at it as something to be disposed of, why not use it to grow a crop that can heat our buildings, produce electricity or be used for compost? Camrose County in rural Alberta is doing just that.

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Canada's Biggest Biofuels Plant To Be Built In B.C.

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Natural Gas Plant, Video, BC Politics, Surrey Natural Gas Plant, Surrey, Surrey Landfill, Surrey Biofuels Plant, Biofuels, Cp, Surrey Biofuels Facility, Natural Gas, Canada British Columbia News

SURREY, B.C. - The largest organics biofuel facility in Canada will be built in Surrey, B.C., as a way to divert waste from the landfill and turn it i...

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Biofuel-Powered Jumbo Jet Takes Flight

CP | The Associated Press | Posted 12.28.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Boeing, Video, Biofuel Jetliner, Biofuel Aircraft, Biofuels, Biofuel Airplane, Petrochina, Biofuel Jumbo Jet, Honeywell, Air China, Boeing 747, Canada Business News

BEIJING, China - A jumbo jet powered by fuel made from oily nuts has made a two-hour test flight in Beijing as part of a U.S.-Chinese renewable energy...

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