In what could be the beginning of the end for small scale home made biodiesel, this battle could be the start of many similar troubles. Last November we said the period when home biodiesel makers could gather up used cooking oil without any problems would come to a close as prices went up and more [...]
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Biodiesel
Is there anything that can’t be turned into biodiesel? A New Zealand company has used pond algae to create biodiesel from sewage. Some groups have been reluctant to embrace biodiesel because of concern over turning vast areas of forest into palm plantations strictly to feed the biodiesel industry, I haven’t heard of anyone defending sewage! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
