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Find oil from the air
A company in Scotland has achieved initial success in developing aerial search technology from the air.
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NEC manufactures bioplastics from cashew nut shell
Japan's NEC Corporation has announced for the first time that a plastic made from biological waste is a shell of cashew nuts.
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'Racing' turns algae into automobile fuels
Scientists around the world are trying to extract algae oil, which is available in organic form and much cheaper than large-scale petroleum to provide motor vehicles ...
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Racing car with chocolate
British scientists have launched a unique race car made from potatoes, carrots, soybeans and fueled with chocolate extracts.
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Improve oil extraction with new techniques
The exact map of a large underground oil field was developed to direct engineers' efforts to bring oil from large rocks into wells so that the oil could be pumped up for…
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Equipment turns the breath into money
John Lennon Airport in Liverpool city of England will become the first airport in the world to use technology to turn passenger's breath into biofuels.
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'Smart water' boosts oil production by 60%
Norwegian researchers report that injecting a type of seawater called 'smart water' into some low-yield wells can increase the rate of mining by 60 percent.
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2020: Two million vehicles run on hydrogen?
According to a report by the National Research Council commissioned by the US Congress, the transition to using hydrogen-powered vehicles will reduce dependence on gasol…
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Singapore manages and uses water efficiently
Lack of water is a global heat issue, and like food or oil, water supplies are increasingly considered a national security issue. Singapore had a headache before the pro…
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Restores painting with nano sponge
Italian scientists have published an invention that is important in cleaning and restoring invaluable oil paintings as well as marble sculptures and other artistic works…
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The car is running ... sake
One day, Japanese drivers can pump sake into their cars to run. A project to produce sake from fermented rice, which is made from fermented rice, is being tested in Shin…
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B-52 flying fortress flying with 'artificial' fuel
On December 15, 2006, the US Air Force announced that it had completed the test flight of a B-52 with eight engines using a new fuel: a mixture of synthetic fuels by the…
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Cars run on cooking oil
The car was made with cooking oil by some members of the University of Maryland who took advantage of the excess oil from the kitchen to produce biofuel cars.
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Oil alternative
The world is trying to find new forms of energy, freeing people from dependence on oil - fossil energy resources are running out and are causing harmful effects to the g…
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New zeolite turns crude oil into gasoline
Research team led by GS. Ryoo Ryong of the Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology says they have found a new zeolite as a catalyst for crude oil to be effect…