Biofuel from biomass

Some encouraging news from the biofuel front was released by a Vancouver, Canada enterprise. Syntec Biofuel, a company developing biomass to fuel conversion technologies, announced that it has achieved a yield of 105 gallons of alcohol (ethanol...

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Organic Bananas

I like bananas. And about a year ago, organic bananas were on sale at the local supermarket, so I tried them. I got hooked. They taste better. I have not sponsored a double blind study tasting both kinds, but the organic bananas seem to have a...

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Solar power

Solar power could be meeting the planet’s energy needs in twenty years, says famed inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil, the author of the books ‘The Singularity Is Near’ and ‘The Age of Intelligent Machines’...

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