Cooking oil fuels Peters Creek resident’s family car

Fed up with high prices at the pump and the state’s growing dependence on the oil industry, Taygan said he is “walking the talk” and using leftover frying oil from local restaurants to make fuel for his 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit truck and 1975 Mercedes. Both vehicles are powered by diesel engines and, after slight modifications, [...]

One car to go — hold the fries

Sitting among the apple orchards that dot the top of Oak Hill Road in Harvard, Eric Broadbent’s house may well be the perfect site for a windmill some day. Broadbent is working on calibrating his anemometer to track the wind speeds himself, but said he’s heard reports that Oak Hill has seen wind gusts of [...]

Canada pushing for B2 biodiesel blend by 2012

Diesel fuel in Canada will be blended with a minimum of 2-percent renewable biodiesel by 2012, if federal environment officials get their way.
The country’s proposed Clean Air Act – a work in progress – includes an alternative fuels package as environmental analysts had predicted.
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Animal fat becomes key biodiesel ingredient

Dexter, Mo. — Jerry Bagby is typical of the oilmen who are prospecting for a fortune in the Midwestern biofuels boom. He’s convinced there’s oil in these hills — and he’s found a well that no one else is using.
Bagby and a longtime friend have cobbled together $5 million to build a new biodiesel [...]

Utility, Mass. firm win award for work on algae biofuel process

By Ed Taylor, Tribune
December 2, 2006
Arizona Public Service and a Massachusetts-based company called GreenFuel Technologies Corp. have launched a project they hope will solve two problems at once — reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants while creating domestic fuel for motor vehicles.
The Emissions-to-Biofuels project at APS’s Redhawk Power Station uses algae that feed on the [...]

Make-your-own biodiesel takes step in right direction

By ETHAN MAIER
It’s the newest trend in energy.
It runs cleaner and produces up to 65 percent fewer pollutants than most diesel fuels we have access to today. It also works in any diesel engine that is post-1990 without any modifications.
Even better, it is cheaper than anything you can find at your local gas pump. [...]

Industry waters say the ‘Holy Grail’ of feedstocks for biofuels could be years from reality.

While some see algae as the ideal source for biofuels, industry watchers at ThinkEquity’s Greentech Summit in San Francisco on Thursday said the technology is likely to be years away.
“Algae, as a biodiesel feedstock, is further out than cellulosic ethanol,” said Martin Tobias, CEO of biodiesel company Imperium Renewables, referring to ethanol from materials like [...]

SA company to produce biodiesel from algae

South African fuels firm De Beers Fuel plans to produce 16 to 24-billion litres of biodiesel a year from algae within five years with an initial investment of R3,5-billion ($487,4-million), it said on Tuesday.
The company has bought licenses for 40 000 hectares to be developed into algae farms — for which the initial investment is [...]

Fueled by The Fat of the Land-Liposuction Biofuels?

Liposuctioned fat could be biodiesel fuel
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 6 (UPI) — One person’s liposuction is another person’s biodiesel fuel, as a Norwegian businessman wants to use suctioned fat to develop an alternative fuel source. (read more)

CSU Students, Biofuel start-up to make Biodiesel From Algae

Everyone who knows me knows that I like to rant about the benefits of algae based biodiesel, but I think many believe it is a truly crackpot idea. Maybe not, it seems….
Scumming surface for fuel
CSU and a Boulder startup are joining a movement to help expand commercial production of the biofuel.
By Steve Raabe
Denver Post Staff [...]