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The Latest Buzz: Caffeinated Popcorn

(Nov. 24) -- Next time you find yourself dozing off in the middle of a boring movie at home, there's only one logical solution: stuff your face with popcorn -- caffeinated popcorn, to be precise. For the past several months, Amanda Fitch and her husband, Matthew, have been generating quite the buzz from a business they...

US Navy Tests Boat Powered by Algae

(Oct. 28) -- The U.S. Navy has developed what it calls a "mean, green riverine machine" -- a 49-foot camouflage gunboat capable of outracing destroyer fleets and powered in part by seaweed. Swishing around in the vessel's fuel tank is a 50-50 mix of algae-based biofuel and diesel that powers high-performance vessels in a...

New Biofuel Cell Could Turn Our Bodies Into Batteries

(May 19) -- When Laurence Fishburne held up a battery and compared it to a human being in "The Matrix," few viewers may have questioned whether such a notion was actually possible. Now, however, the concept of producing electricity from the human body may be a step closer to reality. For the first time, scientists have...

How Offshore Drilling Affects US Military

WASHINGTON (March 31) -- President Barack Obama's decision to expand offshore energy development could put oil platforms in the middle of some of the military's prime East Coast training areas, tracts of open ocean and airspace now largely reserved for ship maneuvers, bombing runs and naval gunfire. And the armed forces,...

Background on biofuel

A Biofuel is a type of fuel whose energy is derived from biological carbon fixation. Biofuels include fuels derived from biomass conversion, as well as solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases.

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