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Passenger aircraft testing vegetable gasoline
A Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 heavy aircraft yesterday successfully tested a two-hour flight using a portion of vegetable fuel.
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Environment
Train with fuel from soybean and rapeseed seeds
South West Trains train company tested a ship with mixed fuel made of soybean seeds, rapeseed and diesel, because they wanted to test an alternative energy source.
Environment
Biofuel plants are at risk of becoming invasive plants
Countries that rush to develop biofuels are at risk of growing invasive plants, which could lead to an environmental and economic destruction, biologists warn.
Environment
Testing biofuel for aircraft
As the climate change is getting more and more worrisome, the Virgin Group is preparing to test clean, first biofuels for aircraft, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, c…
Videos
Video: Device to turn urine into cooking fuel
A Mexican scientist invented a device that can convert urine into biogas for cooking.
Science Events
Technologies will appear in the future
According to scientific forecasts, the next years of the 21st century will appear today 's technology trend to start interfering and complementing each other. This will…
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Vietnamese girl 'looks' for the German Green Talent award
PhD student Le Ngoc Lieu is the only Vietnamese contestant and one of the 25 young scientists in the world to be honored in Germany this year.
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Vietnam-Japan is studying genetically modified cassava varieties
Vietnamese and Japanese scientists on May 22 agreed to study the application of genetic modification techniques to increase productivity and quality in Vietnamese cassav…
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Vietnam has a biofuel industry
2011-2015 period Vietnam will start producing additives and enzymes as well as raw materials for biofuel production and expand production, expand the scale of biofuel pr…
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Make the first flight with biofuels
Boeing Aircraft Manufacturing Industry Group on September 21, 2011 said it will conduct cooperation with the China Civil Aviation Authority and related partners, plannin…
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Since 2009, Vietnam has started many biofuel projects
In 2009, Vietnam will launch 3 large biofuel projects and next year, many projects to produce ethanol (a fuel
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2008 Millennium Technology Award for Americans
With a new generation of biofuel research works for controlled distribution, chemistry professor Robert Langer, 59, of MIT Institute of Technology (USA), was awarded the…
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Latin America warns of the impact of biofuel production
The leaders of the two Latin American countries warned about the effects of biofuel production on food supply.
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'Biofuels push food prices up'
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said that the demand for ethanol and other biofuels is one of the main factors driving global food prices up.
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Japan: Gas stations start selling biofuels
From yesterday (April 27), 50 gas stations in Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures, Saitama and Chiba ... began testing bio-petrol (biogasoline).