Millions of people live without access to electricity or modern fuel for cooking and heating, but the problem can seem too daunting to tackle. How much would it cost to bring rural communities or countries with limited infrastructure onto the grid? Read More >>
Featured comment by snapper.fishes:
"Biofuel and hydrogen are hardly "green" energy though. You put in far more energy and resources than you can get back out of it. All that you are doin..." More »
Everybody knows about using oil as a fuel source, but London is putting a new spin on the concept. Soon the city will be mining its own sewers to bring up glorious globs of old cooking grease and melting them down into fuel. Delicious. Read More >>
Featured comment by J2ozac:
"It's not just from people pouring used grease and fat down the drain, most of it is undigested fat from excrement." More »
Come summer, one of the best targets for some good old-fashioned British whinging is always air travel -- the discomfort, the long queues, the freakishly cheery staff. But I promise you, no matter how much you might want to gripe, your journey won't suck nearly as bad as this guy, who's trying to fly from Australia to Britain, in a Cessna, using the contents of a landfill as fuel. Right. Read More >>
Featured comment by dunksterp:
"This is actually pretty amazing! I didn't know they could do this with waste plastic. Curious as to why more people don't know about it, just mentione..." More »
It just happened at a gas station in New Jersey: cars got filled with kerosene after a delivery tank truck mistakenly filled one of the pumps deposits with aeroplane fuel. So what happened next? Did the cars explode in flames? Did they run faster? Read More >>
Featured comment by Arthur Daily:
"A few years back I used to run my old Toyota estima on 50/50 diesel & veg oil.
Every time I pass a chippy and get a whiff it brings back memorys" More »
A Boeing 747 can carry 48,445 gallons (183,380 liters) of fuel in a labyrinth of tanks so large that people can actually walk and crawl inside them. Can't believe it? Just watch. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"Why would they inspect for leaks visually instead of just pressurising the thing and seeing if the pressure goes down?" More »
It doesn't exactly herald a new era of fossil-fuel free transportation, but this experiment showing a tiny aerogel boat zipping along for almost an hour on a drop of ethanol could lead to new ways of thinking about boat propulsion. Read More >>
Spilling petrol on your shoes after you fill your car seems like just a small annoyance. But it happens to everyone, and apparently all that wasted fuel adds up to about half a billion litres of fuel lost every year. An epidemic this simple mesh cap promises to solve. Read More >>
The dawn of electric motoring is taking a little longer to gain traction than many hoped. But when it does, this is how we should be using the old pumps: repurposed as dog houses, amplifiers, bookshelves and coffee machines. Read More >>
Featured comment by Happyal:
"Stop using logic to pick holes in the hipppy's ideal future.
LOL, yes I think we all think it's daft too, also if we all decided tomorrow to buy a..." More »
Some folks bang on about biofuels being the future of car fuels. In reality, though, they're expensive, and that's largely because they're a pain in the arse to make. The solution might be seaweed. Read More >>
People resort to the black market for all sorts of stolen goods: phones, watches, cars, babies. But used cooking oil? According to the Washington Post, that's a thing too. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jenkidom:
"Sorry to sound like an idiot but what you have done there is just convert $4 from the original story with currency rate - there is also the whole Engl..." More »
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