It looks like the growing sales of Volkswagen diesels in the US has garnered the attention of US carmakers. General Motors today formally announced the 2013 Chevy Cruze diesel. The 4 cylinder 2-liter VCDi diesel engine generates over 160 horsepower and 265 foot-pounds of torque, which should make it a sporty car to drive. [...]
I was contacted a few weeks back from a friend in the Biodiesel community about a great resource on the web for Everything Biodiesel. A while ago, this used to be a site known as the Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial. Unfortunately, the domain name was not renewed and the site went away.
Before you go to the voting booth this year, make sure you do a little research on the candidates and understand where they stand on reducing our dependence on petroleum. If asked, all candidates will answer, “I support reducing our nation’s dependence on oil.” However, you need to look at a more granular level to [...]
This title is a little misleading if you have read my post on “Using Biodiesel in your Vehicle.” In reality, I’m going to provide information on how you can prepare your VW TDI to run on biodiesel. In general, there are two issues to overcome when running a vehicle on biodiesel:
As part of my “no nonsense” series on bio and alternative fuels, I covered biodiesel and straight vegetable oil (SVO) and waste vegetable oil (WVO) diesel conversions. Since I believe in experimenting first-hand with topics I discuss, a few years ago, I worked with a local company to convert a restored 1970 Mercedes 220D to [...]
Any diesel engine can run on biodiesel. Is that a true statement? Are there any issues to deal with or do you just dump the “biodiesel” into the engine? What is biodiesel anyway? There are lots of questions that should be answered when you begin to peel back the onion on running your vehicle on [...]
Waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel, according to a study by researchers at the University of Nevada-Reno. According to the USDA, world coffee production is 16.34 billion pounds per year; the scientists estimated that spent coffee grounds can potentially add 340 million gallons of biodiesel to [...]
A researcher at Montana State University has found a micro-organism in a plant in South America that could fuel vehicles one day. The unusual fungus contains the essence of diesel, which one could use to run a bus, for example, without processing it at all. Listen…
35 Billion Gallons of Biofuel by 2017 from GreenFuel Technologies Biofuel White Paper If GreenFuel algae facilities could be located at every operating plant in the U.S., it would be possible to produce about 13.5 billion gallons of biodiesel and 8.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year if those plants continued to produce electricity at [...]
Microscopic alternative to biofuels By Cristina Jimenez Published: December 27 2007 19:55 | Last updated: December 27 2007 19:55 Oil from algae, the microscopic plants that produce a green covering on the surfaces of ponds and neglected outdoor swimming pools, may soon be filling diesel pumps. As crude oil has moved towards $100 (€70, £50) [...]
