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The Scots May Power Cars with Whiskey Biofuel in the Near Future
Scottish researchers develop a method to make a biofuel from scotch waste products. The fuel produced, butanol, has some advantages over the widely used fuel additive ethanol.
Give Your Truck a Caffeine Jolt: Spent Coffee Grounds as a Biodiesel
The world produces an insane amount of coffee each year, somewhere around 16 billion pounds. The grounds are soaked in water, that’s the end of their life. They are not [ … ]
Food, Inc. The Companion Guide
Finally, it’s in my hands. I’ve been waiting for what feels like EONS for my copy of Food, Inc. (Edited by Karl Weber) to arrive. I first laid eyes on [ … ]
Vilsack Named New Agriculture Secretary
Today the Obama transition team announced the President Elect’s newest addition to his Cabinet: Tom Vilsack will be the Secretary of Agriculture. Selecting the former governor of Iowa, one of [ … ]
Say What? President Bush Encourages Americans to Eat Local
Headlines from today’s White House press conference included a quote from President Bush encouraging Americans to eat local. It caught me a bit off guard. Putting the comment back into [ … ]