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With growing interest in alternative fuels, we'll check in on efforts to create truly green sources of energy -- fuel from algae. The city of Venice, Italy has announced a 2-year plan to build an algae-based power plant that would provide half the city's electric power. We'll talk about that effort, and about a library of algae samples from around the world. The Culture Collection of Algae is finding newfound interest among biofuel researchers.

Some MBA students at RPI started an informal lunch for entrepreneurs.  The idea is for like minded people to get together, talk, and sometimes share a bit about what they are working on. The expectation is that... Well...

Forget food crops. Future fuels will come from more practical feedstocks. Plus, each generation will use fewer resources and pack more energy than the last. PM crunches the numbers on alternative fuels for the real world.

READ MORE: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4277305.html

Sue Butler decided it was time to cut the cord on fossil fuels. So when her aging gas furnace needed replacing, she turned to the Earth for a solution.

She installed a geothermal system--also called a ground-source heat pump, a water-source heat pump, or geo-exchange system--which recently started heating and cooling her Cambridge, Mass. home. Butler said she was motivated by environmental reasons and concerns over carbon monoxide from burning natural gas.

Energy security is the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity of our time. But lack of action has put the U.S. at risk. America needs a bold plan that ignites our collective imagination, sparks innovation, and creates economic and national security. The starting point? A call to action from our new president in the first 100 days of his administration:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=obamas-first-100-days

Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks. Their study has been published online in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. Starbucks anyone? http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/acs-wcg121008.php

Thinking of buying a Hybird because you will get a government tax credit well why not by a new diesel vehicular instead.  Check out this government website for more information:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxLeanburn.shtml

Does the high cost of fuel have you flying your private jet less well why not try running it on a biofuel?

http://futureboy.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2009/01/09/scum-of-the-skies/

A fungus that produces biodiesel have been found in Chili.  Here is the link to here more:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96574076

A researcher at Montana State University has found a micro-organism in a plant in South America that could fuel vehicles one day. The unusual fungus contains the essence of diesel, which one could use to run a bus, for example, without processing it at all.

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