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Universally Accessible Energy Will Be Worth The Cost

Millions of people live without access to electricity or modern fuel for cooking and heating, but the problem can seem too daunting to tackle. How much would it cost to bring rural communities or countries with limited infrastructure onto the grid?


Monster Machines: New Flying Petrol Station Will Be Open 24/7 Anywhere In The World

KC-135 Statofortress tanker planes have been refuelling fighter craft in-flight for more than 60 years. While such longevity is commendable, the US military’s fleet of mid-air refuellers is in desperate need of an update. And that’s where this new flying petrol station comes in.


There’s Gross Alternative Fuel Just Hanging Out In The Sewers

Everybody knows about using oil as a fuel source, but London is putting a new spin on the concept. Soon, the city will be mining its own sewers to bring up glorious globs of old cooking grease and melting them down into fuel. Delicious.


Aussie Plans To Fly From Sydney To London In Plastic-Powered Plane

One of the best targets for some good old-fashioned British whining is always air travel — the discomfort, the long queues, the freakishly cheery staff. But no matter how much you might want to gripe, your journey won’t suck nearly as much as the one this guy wants to fly from Australia to the UK in a Cessna using the contents of a landfill as fuel. Right.


What Happens When You Put Aeroplane Fuel In A Normal Car?

It just happened at a petrol station in New Jersey: cars got filled with kerosene after a delivery tank truck mistakenly filled one of the pumps deposits with aeroplane fuel. So what happened next? Did the cars explode in flames? Did they run faster?


Engineers Claim To Be Able To Make Petrol From Air

Hidden away in sleepy northern England is an engineering company with a radical idea: it claims to be able to make petrol, to run your car, out of air. Is this the solution to the global fuel crisis, or wild hyperbole?


The Navy Wants To Use Seawater For Fuel

Driving around in unfamiliar territory, searching for a gas station while your gauge hovers just above E is maddening and stressful. But imagine experiencing that same feeling while manning a giant aircraft carrier through foreign — and sometimes hostile — seas. To make fuel easier to come by, the US Navy is working on a way to produce it from ocean water.


These Guys Got Inside The Fuel Tank Labyrinth Of A 747 Jumbo Plane

A Boeing 747 can carry 183,380 litres of fuel in a labyrinth of tanks so large that people can actually walk and crawl inside them. Can’t believe it? Just watch.


Laser-Fuelled Drones May Never Have To Land

Working with wireless power specialists LaserMotive, Lockheed Martin has successfully completed preliminary tests of a new laser refuelling system that extends the flight time of its Stalker unmanned aerial drone to over 48 hours.


Watch This Tiny Aerogel Boat Run On One Minuscule Drop Of Ethanol

It doesn’t exactly herald a new era of fossil-fuel free transportation, but this experiment showing a tiny aerogel boat zipping along for almost an hour on a drop of ethanol could lead to new ways of thinking about boat propulsion.


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