Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy. Just three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears shuttered himself in his garage and began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel.
His reactor (plastic bags) and his feedstock (algae) may have struck soybean farmers as a laughable gamble. But the experiment worked, and today, Sears' company, Solix Biofuels in Fort Collins, is among several startups betting their futures on the photosynthetic powers of unicellular green goo. Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel. Whisky is being used to develop a biofuel which gives 30% more power output than ethanol and could be available at petrol pumps within a few years It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "one for the road".
Whisky, the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, is being used to develop a new biofuel which could be available at petrol pumps in a few years. Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy.