Comment Syngas Spin (Score 1) 113
More Fischer-Tropsch Evil, Go Vivoleum instead
Comment Blackwater Bot (Score 1) 369
What about a bot that outperforms in ethical capacity the person ordering the human soldiers to die for Haliburton?
Tiny Biodiesel Reactors 369
Lee_in_KC writes "A professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University
developed a small reactor to directly convert vegetable oil to biodiesel.
Goran Jovanovic reports his invention is approximately the size of a credit
card. It pumps vegetable oil and alcohol through parallel channels to
convert the oil into biodiesel almost instantly. Current mainstream
methods to produce biodiesel take more than a day and also produces other byproducts which must be neutralized before disposal or use in other manufacturing processes."
