If you want to put biodiesel to work for yourself right now, try this. There’s a biodiesel Royal Enfied motorcycle for sale on ebay. MotorEarth imported the bike last year for use as a demo to show the practical side of biodiesel fuel. They have run the motorcycle on both biodiesel and straight vegetable oil [...]
From the monthly archives:
January 2006
The Departments of Energy and Agriculture are cooperating to decode the DNA of soybeans in order to optimize soybeans for all uses, increasing oil output, disease resistance and enhancing the plants in other ways. The more we know about soybeans the better able we’ll be to optimize their use for producing biodiesel. Environmental News Service [...]
West Central Cooperative in Ralston, IA and General Atomics of San Diego, CA have received $3.3 million dollars for a pilot research project involving waste plastics and biodiesel. Part of the Defense Appropriations Bill for 2006, the plan is to take the plastic waste products from our front line soldiers and use biodiesel to dissolve [...]
Ethanol Oil Recovery Systems has created an oil recovery process that works in conjunction with ethanol production facilities, enabling them to produce a high grade oil from corn to be used for biodiesel. Biodiesel currently comes mainly from soybeans as well as other plants and animal fats. Corn has historically not been used because conventional [...]
There’s an outfit in San Francisco, Incredible Adventures, that is offering day trips from San Francisco and Las Vegas to the wine country, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and various other destinations in biodiesel powered vans. It looks like they power their vans from San Francisco Biofuels, a cooperative they co-sponsor, which provides B100, pure biodiesel. [...]
