A scientist from MIT has been testing an idea to clean smokestack emissions with algae while producing biodiesel, and the process results in a waste product that can be used to produce ethanol. It sounds like a triple win scenario, if not science fiction but so far the early tests are promising. Dr. Isaac Berzin [...]
January 2006
Just last week I mentioned how biodiesel was fast becoming commonplace and our attention would soon turn to where all of this biodiesel we were going to use would come from. Biodiesel, in a very short span of time, has turned from a curiousity into a booming trend and now all of those backyard biodiesel [...]
This year, ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) will be rolling out and by October 15th, all diesel fuel sold in the U.S. must have only 15ppm (parts per million) sulfur content compared to the 500ppm that has been the standard up to this point. Sulfur, though raising emissions, helps lubricate diesel engines so a substitute [...]
Stories of biodiesel filling stations and companies converting to all biodiesel fueled truck fleets continue to make the news but it won’t be long before this will be about as newsworthy as crowded parking lots at a shopping mall. The occurence of these events is fast becoming so commonplace we’ll soon see the coverage shift [...]