The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...

Can an old, restored steam locomotive be the harbinger for a new era in cleaner train travel? That’s what a Minnesota based collaboration between the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the ...

The engine's ownership was next transferred in 2013 to Minnesota-based Sustainable Rail International, which planned to modernize it using advanced steam technology and experimental bio-coal, then ...

A few days ago, the company demonstrated its new steam engine, which generates 100 horsepower. ... without the need to convert it into biofuels, with the energy losses that this entails.

Efforts are picking up steam to try to restore the locomotive at Stormont Vail Events Center, move it elsewhere in Topeka and display it under a roof. The Topeka Capital-Journal ...

The operator of coal-fired steam locomotives in the tourist spot of Nikko in eastern Japan is trialing a biofuel as a way to cut its carbon dioxide emissions, ... 40 percent of the 160 tons of coal ...

Air New Zealand conducted a two-hour test flight Monday in which one of four Rolls-Royce engines on a jetliner was powered by a biofuel blend, another step down the long path the airline industry ...

The Air Force wants half its jet fuel made from sources other than petroleum by 2016, and Pratt & Whitney has now shown that two of its engines can perform on a 50/50 blend of traditional jet fuel ...

In the race to power planes with plants, airlines have begun test-flying a gamut of options. From a technical perspective, it may not matter which biofuel wins, so long as there are ample contenders.