High efficiency engines help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions by consuming less fuel while generating an equivalent amount of power.

CNN: Lab develops engine for the future

Founded by Jeremy Leggett, the chairman of solar energy company Solarcentury, along with (rather unusually since his company will be consuming plenty of fuel to get rockets into space) Virgin Galactic Chief Executive Will Whitehorn.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The composite materials are much lighter than traditional metal (though equally as sturdy), enabling planes to be a little larger and thus more spacious while still consuming the same amount of fuel.

BBC: Increased comfort in the sky

Consuming 45 billion gallons of fuel a year, truckers are vulnerable, too: Trucking-company failures tripled from the previous year to 1, 320 in last year's third quarter, as fuel prices rose 50%.

FORBES: The Prize

The method offers the promise of a rapid and precise screening of algae directly rather than the existing time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone means for analyzing algae, and may prove pivotal in the development of a fuel industry based on algae.

FORBES: Looking For Algal Oil With Near Infrared Light