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As of Oct. 13, 2009, we began posting news items here from the general category of "alternative fuels", rather than just posting the items in the relevant sub-pages.

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  Feature: Electrolysis / Fuel Efficiency > Hydroxy >
  Commercial Digital Hydroxy Controller Revolutionizes the 'Meyers Symmetrical Pulse Mode' Concept - Square1 in Kentucky, USA, will soon be releasing their Hydro-Maxx™ controller that will help HHO researchers get the most from their hydroxy units, possibly even unleashing Meyer's Mode – the holy grail of water fuel. (PESN; Aug. 29, 2010)
  

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  Fuel Cells / Waste to Energy > from Sewage > NEW: Urine Power >
  Urine-powered fuel cells by Youtricity - The Carbamide Power System prototype can break urea or urine from humans or animals down into water, nitrogen and CO2, and also produce electricity at the same time, using a cheaper catalyst and less expensive membranes, without requiring precioius metals like platinum. (Yahoo News; Aug. 27, 2010) (Also: Discovery)
  

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  Feature: Water > as Fuel > Hydroxy > Running Vehicles on Water > Hydrogen Hog >
  Chat with Freddy (guy claiming to have gotten a pickup to run on water) - Frederick Wells talks about the recent demo that had to be scrapped; points to plans for the design; talks about his early days of research, including time spent with Stanley Meyers. (PESN; Aug. 26, 2010)
  

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  Feature: Water > as Fuel > Hydroxy > Running Vehicles on Water > Hydrogen Hog >
  Freddy's Plans for Running a Vehicle on Water - Frederick Wells of Future Energy Concept's Inc. said we could post the plans he made available in 2002, from which he built the device that allegedly enable them to run a 2004 Dodge pickup to run on hydroxy gas only, with no petrol. (FreeEnergyNews; Aug. 26, 2010)
  

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  Feature: Water > as Fuel > Hydroxy > Running Vehicles on Water > Hydrogen Hog >
  Q&A with Fred whose truck runs on water - Frederick Wells answers a series of questions about their 2004 Dodge 4x4 pickup truck that his company, Future Energy Concepts Inc., claims has been able to run on nothing but water via their on-board hydroxy gas generator, the 'Hydrogen Hog'. New video, description, and photos posted. (PESN; Aug. 17, 2010) (Comment)
  

• Alt Fuels > Biofuels > Cautions >
  Biofuels emit 400 percent more CO2 than regular fuels - A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce four times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional fossil fuels do. (Natural News; August 10, 2010)

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  Alt Fuel > Microbes >
  Plant Enzyme Can Convert Carbon Monoxide Into Propane, Paving the Way for Exhaust-Powered Cars - A microbe called Azotobacter vinelandii, which is found around the roots of various food plants, creates an enzyme called vanadium nitrogenase, which produces ammonia from nitrogen. In a study published in the journal Science, researchers took away the nitrogen and fed it carbon monoxide instead. The enzyme started making short carbon chains, two or three atoms long -- in other words, propane. (Popular Science; Aug. 6, 2010)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Biofuels > Ethanol >
  World's First Ethanol-Powered Utility Plant - The plant began operating on Jan. 19, 2010 and has installed capacity of 87 MW, enough to power a city of 150,000. The plant, whose ethanol fuel is derived from sugar cane, has lower CO2 emissions and water usage; and has lower Nox emissions. (PowerTechnology)
  

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  Feature: Fuel Efficiency / Plasma > GEET >
  GEET plasma fuel processor kit now in production, available for purchase - The kit targets do-it-yourselfers and is designed to fit carbureted engines in the range of 1 to 16 HP, allegedly increasing their fuel efficiency by at least 30 percent. It goes along with the plans which can be downloaded for free. Will be on display at the TeslaTech conference in Albuquerque. (PESN; July 29, 2010)
  

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  Fuel Efficiency / Alt Fuels / Trends >
  Honda: Racing Against Time - In their Dream the Impossible promotional video series (advertised on our site), Honda talks about the "racing spirit" and how it brings out the best in people to accomplish phenomenal things. The ultimate race, they point out, is to find an alternative to oil for propelling our transportation -- long before we run out of oil. (Honda; July, 2010)
  

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  Feature: Electrolysis > Hydrogen / Electromagnetic >
  Hydroxy Gen and OU Replications - Michael Couch writes about the many self charging battery system videos of various origins; Bedini, Tesla Switch, SEC, and others showing up all over Youtube. 100% 'Looped' Hydroxy Genset, Kapanadze OU and Self Charging Battery Systems Demoed! (PESN; July 13, 2010)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Biofuel > Algae >
  A New Bloom for Algae - A U.S. DOE roadmap marks a return to research on a source of fuel that was once thought too costly. "With a dedicated research and development program, we can bring the economics to a suitable place within a 10-year time frame". (MIT Technology Review; July 2, 2010)
  

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  Featured: Alt Fuels > Hydroxy / Electrolysis > Brown's Gas >
  Scientific model published for Brown's gas - Chris Eckman's paper, Plasma Orbital Expansion of the Electrons in Water, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the NPA and will be presented at the 17th annual Natural Philosophy Alliance conference to be held June 23-26 in Long Beach, California. (PESN; May 28, 2010)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Biofuels > Sources / Microorganisms >
  A step to artificial life: Manmade DNA powers cell - The Maryland inventors call it the world's first synthetic cell, although this initial step is more a re-creation of existing life — changing one simple type of bacterium into another — than a built-from-scratch kind. Expected applications include new fuels, better ways to clean polluted water. (Associated Press; May 20, 2010)
  

• Alt Fuel > Electrolysis >
  New Catalyst for Electrolysis Reduces Costs by 97% and Increases Hydrogen Production Fourfold - Georgia-based GridShift Inc. has announced the discovery of a new water electrolysis technology that uses no expensive metals such as platinum. GridShift claims they technology to reduce the costs with the catalysts by 97 percent, with an ounce costing just $58, as opposed to $1700 an ounce for platinum. (Green Optimistic; May 19, 2010)

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  Featured: Alt. Fuels > Biofuel > Algae > OriginOil >
  OriginOil announces first customer for oil-from-algae technology - Company's technology uses algae to turn CO2 from power plants into fuel, vegetable oil, plastic and hundreds of other useful products, via sound waves and electric pulses that enable the oil to separate out in solution. Their fist customer will be MBD Energy of Australia. (PESN; May 16, 2010) (Comment)
  

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  Featured: Contests / Alternative Fuels > Water as Fuel > Stanley Meyer >
  Water-for-Fuel tech among Pepsi Refresh contestants - Kevin West claims to have been able to replicate Stanley Meyers water car technology on the bench, and is nearly done applying it to a vehicle and making a kit for others to do the same. He has entered the monthly Pepsi Refresh contest to draw attention to this work and possibly win $250,000 for his project. (PESN; May 19, 2010) (Comment)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Biomass > Biofuels > R&D >
  New Gasification Process More Efficiently Converts Biomass to Biofuels - Researchers at the Universities of Massachusetts and Minnesota have created a gasification process that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and doubles the amount of fuel via a special catalytic reactor that converts all the CO2 and and methane into carbon monoxide, which can be used to create biofuels. The system could be market-ready in as few as two years. (PhysOrg; Apr. 21, 2010)
  

• Alt Fuels > Biojet / Biomass / W2E >
  Airline forms partnership to build first biojet fuel plant in Europe - A leading UK airline has committed to partner with a US based clean energy company to establish a biofuel plant in East London. The plant will make fuel from waste from the city of London destined for landfill sites. (NaturalNews; April 11, 2010)
  

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  Alt. Fuels > Biofuels > Algae >
  From Hype to Reality – Not All Algae Are Created Equally - Algae biofuels are often considered one of those technologies --- like hydrogen fuel cells --- that are always "ten years away." Well, one company, Solazyme, says it might have just cracked the code and could be supplying lots of algae jet fuel and diesel in the coming years. (Green Tech Media; Apr. 1, 2010)
  

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  Alt. Fuels > Biofuel > R&D / CO2 Sequestration / Biomimicry > Photosynthesis Imitation >
  Engineers Develop Carbon-Capturing Photosynthetic Frog Foam - Engineers from the University of Cincinnati have devised a way to capture and remove CO2 out of the air and then convert it into biofuel building blocks. The engineers have created an artificial photosynthetic material made from foam injected with frog enzymes, which combined with the power of the sun, converts CO2 into oxygen and sugar. (Inhabitat; March 30, 2010)
  

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  Featured: Alt. Fuels > Waste to Energy / Plasma >
  GlidArc Plasma and Syngas Technology for Waste to Energy - The GlidArc process, invented at the University of Orleans, France, entails a discharge from a 10,000 volt power supply which glides continuously along diverging electrodes until this electric discharge blows off and repeats itself, creating low temperature plasma which creates syngas from the substrate in the presence of a catalyst. (PESWiki; March 27, 2010)
  

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  Alternative Fuels > Waste to Energy / Plasma > GlidArc >
  Plasma technology offers clean fuel breakthrough - According to Prof. Albin Czernichowski from France’s University of Orleans, a device called a GlidArc reactor has successfully been used to create clean fuels from waste materials, utilizing electrically-charged clouds of gas called “plasmas.” One of the fuels is a form of diesel that reportedly releases ten times less air pollution than conventional diesel. (GizMag; March 25, 2010)
  

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  Alternative Fuels > Waste to Energy / Plasma > GlidArc >
  Low Tech, DIY Plasma Gasifier Makes Fuel From Waste - Some interesting tidbits are coming out of the American Chemical Society conference in San Francisco this week. ...Now comes word from a scientist at the University of Orleans in France that he has constructed a compact, relatively inexpensive, low tech plasma gasifier that can take all sorts of waste materials and turn them into a variety of different drop-in fuels, including diesel, gasoline and kerosene. (Gas 2.0; March 26, 2010)
  

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  Biomass / Solar > Concentrated >
  Sundrop Fuels Uses Concentrated Solar Heat to Vaporize Biomass - Sundrop Fuels has developed a system that can vaporize biomass (wood, crop waste, etc.) into synthetic fuels using concentrated solar. The solar-assisted process can allegedly produce twice the amount of gasoline or diesel than conventional biomass gasification systems. (Inhabitat; March 10, 2010)
  

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  Biomass / Biofuels > R&D >
  Plant-based fuel is cheap, easy, and ready to power your jet - Engineers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a way to convert 95% of the energy of cellulosic biomass into jet fuel using stable, inexpensive catalysts, basic equipment and minimal processing. The end hydrocarbon product is so similar to jet fuel that it is ready for application by present internal engine designs. (GizMag; March 11, 2010)
  

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  Methane > Hydrates >
  China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source - Combustible ice has been found in high altitude frozen plateaus as well as underwater in marine sediments. Natural gas hydrates are essentially just frozen methane and water and can literally be lit on fire bringing a whole new meaning to fire and ice. (Inhabitat; March 11, 2010)
  

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  Biofuels > Algae > Biodiesel >
  Solar + Water + C02 = Diesel? - Joule Biotechnologies and its competitors are attempting to utilize proprietary microorganisms that turn photons, water, and C02 directly into drop-in fuels. Their systems have a "solar converter" which can be thought of as solar walls (but not cells) that absorb photons while managing optical density so their proprietary bugs get all the photons they need. (GreenTechMedia; March 5, 2010)
  

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  Featured / Events: Fuel Efficiency > Hydroxy > HHO Games >
  The HHO Games at EarthFest 2010 - The HHO Games at EarthFest 2010 being held April 22 at State College of Florida is a low-cost opportunity for HHO developers to show and sell their kits to a large audience amid the publicity associated with a Guinness World Record attempt to collect plastic bottles. (PESWiki; Feb. 22, 2010)
  

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  Alt Fuel > Biofuel > Algae >
  Pentagon Developing Cost-Competitive Algae For Jet Fuel - DARPA has announced that they will soon be able to transform algae into biofuel at costs that are competitive with fossil fuels at a cost of $3 dollars a gallon for jet fuel; and their plan is to then develop a large-scale refinery that can produce around 50 million gallons per year. (Inhabitat; Feb. 17, 2010)
  

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  Featured: Alt Fuel > Biomass / Non-Fossil Oil > W2E > GPI >
  GPI's waste-to-fuel process validated by U.S. military - Green Power Inc. has had the U.S. military test the input/output volumes and quality of their municipal-waste and biomass-to-fuel plant, validating that it produces as GPI has stated. U.S. sales may finally take off, and bureaucratic resistance will hopefully melt away. (PESN; Feb. 19, 2010) (Comments)
  

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  Alt Fuel > Grease / Biodiesel >
  2009 PopSci Invention Award: A Generator That Runs on Kitchen Grease - The nondescript six-foot-tall box behind Finz restaurant in Dedham, Massachusetts, looks like a tool shed, but actually it's a self-contained grease refinery and five-kilowatt generator. Engineer James Peret's Vegawatt is the first all-in-one device that processes grease to continuously provide a building with electricity and hot water. (Popular Science; May 28, 1009)
  

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  Fuel Efficiency > GEET >
  More GEET classes coming - Paul Pantone is looking to double the number of U.S. dealers to 100, and is thus offering additional week-long classes for those wishing to become licensed in this technology that allegedly can profoundly increase mileage and even make it possible for an engine to run on a wide array of alternative fuels. Reading between the lines, that even includes water. (PESWiki; Feb. 5, 2010)
  

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  Featured: Fuel Cells > Technology Management, Inc. >
  TMI's 1 kW fuel cell module for 3rd world deployment runs on wide range of fuels - A modular fuel cell technology can convert just about any fuel into clean electricity using a chemical process. Technology Management, Inc., of Cleveland, plans to market this distributed energy solution within the developing world where they don't have power, enabling them to grow their own. (PESN; Feb. 5, 2010) (Comments)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Biofuels > Cautions >
  'Invasive' biofuel crops require mitigation and buffer zones: Europe calls for urgent screening - The ‘Standing Committee of the Council of Europe Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats’ (known as the Bern Convention) has warned that biofuel crops are able to escape as pests, and in so doing impact on native biodiversity; makes four recommendations. (NewScienceJournalism; Jan. 14, 2010)
  

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  Alt Fuels > Ethanol >
  One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show - The grain grown to produce fuel in the US in 2009, spurred in part by Federal subsidies, was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. Meanwhile, the number of hungry people in the world has increased to over 1 billion people. (Guardian; UK; Jan. 22, 2010)
  

2009

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  Solar / Alt Fuel > Butanol >
  Scientists Turn CO2 Directly Into Fuel Using The Sun - Researchers at UCLA have engineered a bacteria that can eat carbon dioxide and burp out butanol—a liquid fuel that can be substituted into our existing fuel infrastructure without modification. The reaction the team is harnessing is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis. (Dec. 11, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Suppression > Electrolysis > Boyce >
  Boyce chip implanter suspect identified - Bob Boyce first noticed what turned out to be the VeriChip implant that caused his malignant tumor when he was working with former associate, Bob Potchen. Having fallen asleep at a desk, when he awoke, his right shoulder felt like it had been numbed; and when he rubbed it, he noticed a small, hard lump there. (PESN; Dec. 6, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Alt Fuels > Biodiesel > Sources >
  Widtsoe Institute facilitates farmers growing their own fuel/meal - Utah's newly-formed Widtsoe Institute envisions seeing local farmers not only growing their own fuel, but also providing feed for local livestock, while also producing enough excess fuel for the diesel fleets of the various government entities in the valley. (PESN; Nov. 25, 2009) (Comment)
  

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  Biofuels > R&D / Solar / CO2 Sequestration >
  Making Fuel From Air With Engineered Microbes - Inside specially designed reactors, Joule Biotechnologies' highly engineered photosynthetic microbes thrive off of sunlight and CO2. In return, depending on the type of organism, they can produce straight ethanol, diesel or a number of other types of hydrocarbons. (Gas 2.0; Nov. 10, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Hydrogen / Water > as Fuel > Electrolysis / Nanotechnology >
  Ohmasa Gas makes water as fuel more feasible - Mr. Ohmasa, president of Japan Techno, has devised a method of producing an unusual hydrogen-oxygen gas by using low frequency vibrations to circulate the water upon which electrolysis is run, creating a highly stable H2-O2 gas called Ohmasa gas which exhibits unusual characteristics. For example, Ohmasa gas doesn't explode under pressure. (PESWiki; Nov. 2, 2009) (Comment)
  

• Waste to Energy / Alt Fuels > Ethanol > Cellulosic >
  Turning Wastewater into Ethanol - In a two-step process, Israel-based Applied Clean Tech start by removing cellulose (the part of the plant we can’t digest) from both the sludge and agricultural liquid waste, then Massachusetts-based Qteros ferments this treated material into cellulosic ethanol using a fast-acting microbe, solving the headache of sewage sludge disposal, providing a solution for wastewater treatment plants. (Alt Energy News; Oct. 19, 2009)
  

• Water as Fuel >
  Water (H20) is our 21st Century fuel - Hollywood films such as "Chain Reaction" and "The Saint" have depicted story lines built around the idea of a revolutionary power source arrived at through water H20, becoming freely available for all to use around the Globe. What if that Hollywood story line turned out to be closer to the truth and rather than being a work of fiction it would change the real world we live in forever. (Carbon Good Guys)
  

• Biofuel > Biodiesel >
  Breakthrough Biodiesel Process Now Running At Commercial Scale - Ever Cat opened the doors to it’s new biodiesel facility in rural Minesota on Sept. 28, capable of making biodiesel in mere seconds from start to finish, reducing costs by half the price of other biodiesel, producing no waste, using no chemical reactants, and using any animal fat or vegetable oil as a feedstock. (Gas 2.0; Sept. 30, 2009)
  

• Natural Gas >
  Could Cowpower Replace Horsepower On The Rally Circuit? - Cow manure is a leading contributor of nitrous oxide and ammonia into the atmosphere, adding heartily to global warming. Cars provide their own fair share of noxious fumes. But a British team of engineers and racers is working on a way to kill two birds with one stone by developing a race car that can run on cow manure. (Gas 2.0; Oct. 13, 2009)
  

• Biofuel > Algae >
  Commercial green fuel from algae still as much as a decade away - Breakthroughs are still needed in finding the right strain of algae among thousands of species that will produce high yields; designing systems where the desired algae can multiply and other species don't invade and disrupt the process; and extracting its oils without degrading other parts of the algae that can be made into side products and sold as well. (Reuters; Oct. 8, 2009)
  

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