Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Biofuels Research Roundup
Ira talks with several researchers looking at innovative ways to harvest energy from plant materials, including gasoline-like chemicals, ethanol, and hydrogen production.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Biofuels Update
Join Ira Flatow in this hour of Science Friday for a discussion of alternative energy and biofuels.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: The Road to the New Energy Economy: Wind Energy
The National Science Foundation and Discover Magazine hosted a congressional briefing series examining what steps must be taken to ensure clean, abundant wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy for America's future. [40:53]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Green Revolution: Biomass
Fuel can be produced from different types of biomass, such as algae and cellulose. These scientists are building an algae reactor, learning how leafcutter ants convert cellulose into sugar, and turning the waste from a sawmill into...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy Pyramids: Lesson 4
This lesson will introduce energy pyramids, and show how energy moves from one trophic level to the next. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Energy Pyramids." [5:04]