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Fill'er up w/ Beans
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 01:20 PM MST
General News
| An article at Wired.com is raving about biodiesel. It has alot of good information about the proposed legislation and the use of biodiesel by many large municipal fleets."Minnesota has passed a law requiring that all diesel fuel in the state contain 2 percent biodiesel by 2005. Similar legislation was introduced in Ohio last September. And provisions in the energy bill, currently being hotly debated in the Senate, would give a tax break for biodiesel."
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Grain Growers CoOp Now Marketing Biodiesel
Posted by: Innkeeper on Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 12:09 PM MST
General News
| Grain Growers Cooperative Now Marketing Biodiesel Fuel in NC; Golden LEAF Foundation Helps With Grants, Possible Investment
ZEBULON, N.C.,- February 14, 2003 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grain Growers Cooperative, which has received start-up assistance from the Golden LEAF Foundation, has launched its biodiesel fuel business. The cooperative has received a 20,000-gallon shipment of B-100 soy biodiesel -- enough pure soy oil to produce almost 400,00 gallons of biodiesel fuel when blended at five percent with petroleum diesel.
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HAWAII UNVEILS VEGETABLE OIL POWERED RENTAL CAR SERVICE
Posted by: grass on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 10:00 AM MST
| www.bio-beetle.com
Bio-Beetle Rental Car is proud to announce the debut of a
biodiesel rental car to the island of Oahu. In conjunction with Tradewinds U-Drive, Bio-Beetle rental car is introducing a 2000 Volkswagen TDI that will be powered solely by biodiesel, a diesel fuel made from used cooking
oil collected from restaurants on Oahu. Bio-Beetle is the first rental car company in the world to offer rental cars fueled exclusively with biodiesel.
Bio-Beetle made its initial debut on Maui in January of 2003. The idea for a biodiesel rental car has been a long-time dream of Shaun Stenshol, also owner of Maui Recycling Service. "The Bio-Beetle gives visitors and Oahu residents an eco friendly option when renting a car." Or as our slogan says "Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one." Said Stenshol.
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THE ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE FUEL
Posted by: grass on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 09:58 AM MST
| http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/28ARDIEST.html
By PAGAN KENNEDY / September 28, 2003
Three years ago, Justin Soares stood in the kitchen of the group house he lived in, consulting a recipe as he measured out methanol (a k a wood alcohol), Red Devil brand lye and some fry grease he'd begged off a local restaurant. He poured the ingredients into a blender and punched ''puree.'' Later, he took the blender out to his driveway and tipped its contents into the tank of his 1981 Volkswagen pickup. Soares, then a student at Oregon State University, had just made his own fuel.
Eventually, he moved his operation to the backyard -- partly out of consideration for his seven housemates, who assumed he had been making soap. As his batches got bigger, he began sharing the fuel, called biodiesel, with friends. ''I got them hooked,'' Soares says.
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RUN YOUR CAR ON VEGGIE OIL
Posted by: grass on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 09:56 AM MST
| WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/WP-DYN/ ARTICLES/A28417-2003SEP4.HTML
Washington Post article / September 7, 2003
Charles Anderson's one-ton diesel engine truck is
environmentally friendly and known to cause cravings
for egg rolls. Anderson, a Drury, Mo., farmer and
entrepreneur, runs his engine on vegetable oil,
topping off the tank at a Chinese restaurant where the
owner gladly donates the kitchen's used gallons. "The
truck smells like whatever was cooked in the oil,"
Anderson says. "Chinese food, fried fish, tacos . . ."
A truck run purely on vegetable oil? The idea is not
new: The engine that Rudolf Diesel first showed at the
1900 World Exhibition in Paris was fueled by peanut
oil. But the concept took a recess until, under the
company name Greasel, Anderson started marketing kits
that can convert any diesel engine -- whether in a
Mercedes or a Greyhound bus -- to run on the stuff.
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THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION,
Posted by: grass on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 09:54 AM MST
| www.joshuatickell.com/writer/Tickell70.pdf
by Joshua Tickell, for Home Power Magazine
At some moment during the next five years, we will
have consumed more than one half of the total usable
fossil oil on Planet Earth. To date, we have extracted
807 billion barrels of crude oil. Only an estimated 995
billion barrels remain that can be extracted at current
production costs.
If the worldwide rate of oil consumption remained a
constant 24 billion barrels of oil per year, we would run
out of oil in 2040. But consumption is not static—it is
increasing by about 2 percent per year. Even our rate of
increase is accelerating. Demand for oil will overshoot supply well before 2040.
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Choo-Choo Trains on Energy Crunch
Posted by: grass on Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 09:51 AM MST
| Written by Erik Baard, Jul. 03, 2002 / Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53591,00.html
Sierra Railroad thinks it can (It knows it can! It knows it can!) make electricity to meet California's peak summer demands. The short-touring and freight line, based in Oakdale, has 48 diesel locomotive engines in a rail yard waiting to produce 100 megawatts of electricity for use on the power grid. Moreover, the company is going to fuel them with 100-percent biodiesel, a cleaner-burning vegetable oil equivalent of the familiar petroleum product.
The California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority has signed on to buy the locomotive project's electrical output for five years as part of the agency's plan to buy 250 megawatts of environmentally benign, or "green," electricity per year.
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