Industrial energy recovery from waste soup of ramen noodles is feasible, suggests a new study. The study is: “The recovery of oil from a lot of oily wastewater and the production of biodiesel from its oil,” Chihiro Kondo, Hiroki Sano, Nobuki Ichimiya, Koji Yamane, and Kiyoshi Kawasaki, Transactions of the JSME, vol. 85, no. 874, […]
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Driving a lemon, sort of
When people talk about “driving a lemon“, they generally mean “lemon” to mean a defective automobile. A US patent granted in 1990 to Robert D. Whitworth describes a “Process for purifying limonene for fuel and the like“. A more detailed description, from the patent document: A plant source fuel is disclosed per se and as a blend […]
She’ll put urine in your car, maybe
InventorSpot reports: Golden Gasoline: Use Your Pee for Fuel A recent scientific advancement could see to it that a routine “pit stop” might someday kill two birds with one stone. Think about it – on long road trips you stop at gas stations to do what two things? Empty your bladder and fill your tank. […]
Hydrogen phrase originator (and Ig winner)
The phrase ” The Hydrogen Economy” was invented by a man who went on to win an Ig Nobel Prize. So, at least, is the claim by the authors of The Oil Drum: The dream of the hydrogen economy is one that has been around since the 1970’s, and has been heavily hyped by sources […]