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: Biodiesel degrades some soft [...]
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) [...]
Leader pushes to find new fuel sources BY HALLIE WOODS HallieWoods@coloradoan.com For Loveland Connection Dr. Ken Reardon, a professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Colorado State University, is pictured in a lab on campus. He is a researcher in biofuels, especially algae, and is making a push to find new fuel sources. Reardon is also [...]
Shell plans algae farm for biofuel By BOB KEEFE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 12/12/07 Los Angeles — A day after breaking ground in Texas on the nation’s biggest oil refinery, Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced it is building a fuel refinery of a very different type: an algae farm and laboratory in Hawaii that [...]
