“Look! Up in the sky.” “It’s a bird.” “It’s a plane.” “Well, it’s a plastic-powered plane, making a test flight from Sydney to London.” That’s what representatives of the Irish company, Cynar Plc, could be saying in November when it plans to see how well the plane’s journey goes using its fuel made from waste [...]
Floating Plastics Help Create Alternative Fuel
April 20, 2012 By 1 Comment
NASA is developing a technology that uses large arrays of plastic tubes that float in seawater and contain algae that can be converted into fuel. The floating algae cultivation system, called Offshore Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA), is designed to grow freshwater algae in municipal wastewater using photobioreactors, or flexible plastic tubes. NASA has [...]
