Science360
Science for a Sustainable Future - Innovators
Princeton University physical chemist Emily Carter is using fundamental scientific principles to create computer simulation tools that will help predict the behavior of different materials including renewable fuels. The research, which...
US Department of Agriculture
Converting Beetle-Killed Trees Into Renewable Energy
USDA is helping to fund an effort to turn trees killed by beetles into biofuel.
Food Farmer Earth
The Quest for Relevance: GMOs and the Search for Necessary Innovation
Claire Hope Cummings criticizes the current agricultural and food system, heavily reliant on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and industrial practices, for prioritizing profit over genuine nutritional needs and environmental...
Professor Dave Explains
The Future of Renewable Energy: Becoming a Type 1 Civilization
What challenges does humanity face in the 21st century? Where will we find the strength and the ingenuity to overcome them? One huge challenge is centered on the ways we produce energy. Current methods of extracting fossil fuels from the...
NASA
NASA | Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark Aerosols
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists rarely considered the effect of all three major types of light-absorbing...
Science360
Chemical engineer Robert Coolman - ScienceLives
As a graduate researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Robert Coolman designs and builds biofuel reactors and studies how the chemicals that make up plants interact with catalysts to form fuel. He uses a combination of...
Science360
A feat of reverse engineering!
NSF-funded researchers at Tufts University have developed a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a sugar called xylose. Changing the menu for yeast from glucose to xylose can lead to many advances including...
FuseSchool
Economic, Environmental & Social Effect of Biofuels
Learn the basics about the economic, environmental and social effects of biofuels as part of the fuels chapter within environmental chemistry.
FuseSchool
What Is Carbon Neutral and Biofuels
Learn the basics about carbon neutral and biofuels, as a part of environmental chemistry. Coal, oil, natural gas, shale gas and gas from fracking are fossil fuels formed hundreds of millions of years ago from living things that got...
Curated Video
Comparing and Evaluating Energy Resources
The video provides an overview of the different ways in which energy resources can be compared and evaluated, including their renewability, reliability, and environmental impact. The presenter discusses various types of energy resources,...
FuseSchool
Making Bio Fuels
Can you name some fuels that can be burned to generate energy? Coal, oil, and gas are probably the first that comes to mind. In this video, we’re going to look at another special type: biofuels. The fossil fuels coal, oil, and gas can...
FuseSchool
Different Types of Fuels for Transportation
Learn the basics about the different types of fuels, and their roles in transportation, as a part of environmental chemistry.
US Department of Agriculture
Nature’s New “Soil Cleaner”
Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in central California are using cactus and other plants to remove toxins from soil and to create biofuels. USDA’s Patrick O’Leary has more.
Science360
Green Gasoline
Like everyone else, George Huber knows money doesn't grow on trees. But, ask him where gasoline comes from and he won't just tell you, he'll show you. To fully understand, Science Nation recently went with Huber to a local lumber yard in...
Curated Video
Study Shows Corn-Based Ethanol Could Be Worse for Climate Than Gasoline Alone
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), corn-based ethanol has been mixed into gasoline sold at pumps in the U.S. since 2005, when a policy was enacted aimed at reducing emissions. Corn-based ethanol had been thought to be a...
Bloomberg
Airlines to Pass $5 Trillion Carbon Cleanup Cost to Customers
The aviation sector is planning to pass along decarbonization costs to passengers in a move that could increase prices of some flights by hundreds of dollars. Anthony Palazzo has the details in today's "Big Take" on Bloomberg Television.
Bloomberg
What Formula-E Champ Lucas di Grassi Thinks About E-Fuels
Former Formula E world champion Lucas di Grassi, a UN Ambassador for Clean Air, discusses alternative fuels at the BNEF Summit in New York.
Curated Video
Brazilian president arrives in Mexico at start of Central American tour
1. Plane taxiing, with guard of honour in foreground
2. Brazilian flag flying
3. President of Brazil, Inacio Lula Da Silva at plane door, walks down steps with officials, handshakes
4. Close up, two sailors
5. Lula and officials on red...
Curated Video
Using waste to beat carbon limits
AP Television
IJmuiden, Netherlands - March 30, 2011
1. Wide of smoke billowing out of Corus steel plant
2. Wide of plant with smoke billowing from chimneys
3. Wide of plant with canal in front, smoke billowing from chimneys
AP...
Curated Video
Doubts are raised about renewable energy
Lisbon, Portugal - June 27-28 2007
1. Various of wind farm outside Lisbon
Serpa (Southern Alentejo), Portugal - June 29, 2007
2. Various shots of solar farm near Serpa
New York, United States - July 31, 2007
3. Mid shot of Jesse...
Curated Video
Mexico profits from demand for biofuel
Puebla, Mexico - July 18, 2007
1. Wide shot of a Pemex gas station in Puebla, Mexico
2. Medium shot of woman filling a truck's gas (petrol) tank
3. Close up of woman filling gas tank
4. Wide shot of a worker applying fertiliser to a...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Crops for food or crops for energy, Mozambique's tough choice
VOICED: Crops for food or crops for energy, Mozambique's tough choice
Curated Video
The Obama administration wants to reduce the amount of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply, acknowledging that the biofuel law championed by both parties is not working as well as expected. AP's Dina Cappiello breaks down what this means. (Nov. 15)
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Washington - November 15, 2013
1. SOUNDBITE:Dina Capiello, AP Writer (partly covered by AP file of gasoline and corn production):
So, what happened today was for the first time since 2007...
Curated Video
A review of some of this year's solutions to global warming
Serpa, Portugal - June 29, 2007
1. Various of solar panels
Barcelona, Spain 2007
2. Various of electricity cables
3. Mid of train
4. Wide of power station
5. Wide of city scape and solar panels
6. Various of solar panels
Lisbon,...