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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Via Science Daily: Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was...
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asap news (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Last month, two American pilots - Carol Sugars and Douglas Rodante – became the first flight crew to fly cross-country in a plane powered mostly by biodiesel fuel. Over the 2,486 miles from Reno, Nevada to Leesburg, Florida, more than 70 per cent of the distance was 100 percent powered by biodiesel fuel. The other [...]
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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
KANEOHE BAY — The Marine Corps, whose members pride themselves on being bold, wants to build Hawaii’s largest photovoltaic solar farm and a biofuel electricity-producing plant on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, both of which would not only meet all of the Corps’ power needs by 2015, but also exceed them, officials said.
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PalmTree Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Marines at Kaneohe Bay plan to generate their own power : The Marines, who pride themselves on being bold, want to build the state's largest photovoltaic solar farm and a biofuel electricity-producing plant on base, both of which would not only meet all of the Marines' power needs by 2015, but exceed them, officials said. A multi-megawatt solar array, which would wrap part way around and dominate...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
In a corner of what was once an orange juice plant, dozens of towering stainless steel tanks have found a new purpose: storing the raw materials and finished product of Florida's largest biodiesel factory.
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e-Trade Bangladesh (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Filed under: Biodiesel, Etc., Green Daily Biodiesel proponents do a lot of work to make people see the biofuel as an environmentally friendly alternative. But then James Raulerson pretty much gave them the finger. The southeast Missouri man was sentenced this week to two years probation and given a $10,000 fine for violating the Clean Water [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
The company Procana, established to produce ethanol from sugar cane in the southern Mozambican district of Massingir, says it wants to use Mozambican labour, including Mozambican engineers, in constructing this factory.
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oil and energy news (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
By Eduard Gismatullin Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, said the European Union should “lower tariff and other trade barriers” to encourage ethanol imports from Brazil and other nations to meet biofuel consumption targets. BP and some U.S. universities are investing about $500 million in research into turning waste biomass into biofuels that [...]
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Brainicane (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
image: B100H A year ago when Planet Green was in beta, we did a big push on Thanksgiving. We recyle a few of them here. Collin Dunn writes: Usually derived from vegetable oils-soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used-biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification which essentially splits the [...]
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Hybrid Car Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
image: B100H A year ago when Planet Green was in beta, we did a big push on Thanksgiving. We recyle a few of them here. Collin Dunn writes: Usually derived from vegetable oils-soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used-biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification which essentially splits the oil into two parts: alkyl esters and glycerine; the esters...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
image: B100H A year ago when Planet Green was in beta, we did a big push on Thanksgiving. We recyle a few of them here. Collin Dunn writes: Usually derived from vegetable oils-soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used-biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification which essentially splits the oil into two parts: alkyl esters and glycerine; the esters...
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PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
According to CBDM.T®, the market and business intelligence company, the biofuel market is estimated at €33 billion with a double digit annual growth. The market consists of approximately 85% bioethanol and 15% biodiesel. Bioethanol is produced and consumed mainly in Brazil and North America. On the other hand, Europe is the world leader in biodiesel production and this fuel represents about ¾ of the...
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Farmers in the U.S could be growing hemp as a biomass crop, if a federal court rules in favor of two farmers trying to get a ban on the marijuana-related plant lifted. This story from Biomass Magazine says the new president could also have a hand in lifting that ban: The U.S. Appeals Court in St. Paul, [...]
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Filed under: Biodiesel , Etc. , Green Daily Biodiesel proponents do a lot of work to make people see the biofuel as an environmentally friendly alternative. But then James Raulerson pretty much gave them the finger. The southeast Missouri man was sentenced this week to two years probation and given a $10,000 fine for violating the Clean Water Act. How did he violate the Act? By dumping biodiesel waste...
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TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Biodiesel proponents do a lot of work to make people see the biofuel as an environmentally friendly alternative. But then James Raulerson pretty much gave them the finger. The southeast Missouri man was sentenced this week to two years probation and given a $10,000 fine for violating the Clean Water...
