Archive for 'Biodiesel' Category
Decoding Soybean DNA for Biodiesel
20 January 2006The 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 via [...]
Battlefield Plastic Biodiesel Research Project
20 January 2006West 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 - biodiesel from corn
17 January 2006Ethanol 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 [...]
Biodiesel day trips from Incredible Adventures
14 January 2006There’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 [...]
Algae cleans the air, produces biodiesel
11 January 2006A 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 of [...]
Where will all the biodiesel come from?
11 January 2006Just 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 [...]
EPA Sulfur Rule May Help Biodiesel
9 January 2006This 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 [...]
Biodiesel becoming commonplace
4 January 2006Stories 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 [...]
