Like I need another reason to watch the History Channel!
This release posted on BusinessWire.com says biodiesel producer Better Biodiesel is going to be featured on an upcoming episode of the History Channel’s show Boneyard… a show that looks at the recycling of some big items, such as bombers and bridges:
Chairman and CEO Ron Crafts will appear on The History Channel’s BONEYARD series’ feature on “Bio Waste.” The program airs this Thursday, September 20th at 9:00 p.m. EDT/8:00 p.m. CDT on The History Channel.
The program demonstrates the daily processing journey of millions of gallons of municipal sewage. This compounding sewage is a biowaste, which fortunately can be transformed from a hazardous, environmental nuisance into a lucrative asset. Observe as agricultural wastes are reharvested for biofuels and as animal and vegetable fats are refined into biodiesel oil for cars, trucks and diesel machinery.
If you miss this airing, the History Channel is pretty good about repeating it another time. In addition, the company will soon post the video from the show at its web site www.betterbiodiesel.com.
Two hundred twenty-five garbage trucks from Allied Waste will soon be running on biodiesel. There’s 
A much-anticipated vote on whether to allow a 320-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant to go into a site along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia hit a delay on Tuesday evening.
My underlying point is that by the same method of accounting gasoline takes more energy to produce than it contains, which is to say that if you count the energy that is necessary to build the drilling equipment to get it out of the ground, and the pumping energy to squeeze the last drops of oil from a well whose pressure has fallen so low that it no longer flows without assistance, and the energy to heat the steam to encourage heavy oil to flow into the tapped pool by heating it in the rock formations. This is the kind of energy accounting that if it came out that it really was more efficient to produce ethanol, the author of the “study” would “discover” a line item to pay for the revisions to textbooks to educate the next generation on the evils of fossil fuels in the first place, and on and on until the scales tilted in the desired direction. The real point of the energy input to any liquid fuel is the need to make the fuel suitable for the purpose for which we intend it, which in this case means a portable form of energy that is compatible with internal combustion engines that already exist in the majority of our vehicles. All these calculations that suggest it takes more fossil fuels to create a gallon of ethanol ignore the possibility that the ethanol producers might actually be environmentally conscious. They might be using biodiesel in the tractors and combines in the farm fields. They may be using crop rotation to minimize the need for fertilizers (if any) and pesticides that may be needed on their particular fields (which is only to say, somewhat more so than “average”, which is usually the number statistical studies rely upon).
With those sorts of concerns in mind, BNSF was among the hosts for a seven-city training tour for emergency responders that pulled into Lincoln for Thursday and Friday sessions along the tracks just west of the Haymarket.
Iowa Governor Chet Culver has made a trip to Europe to address wind energy issues at several events in Germany, Denmark, and Spain, delivering major speeches at the American Wind Energy Association Panel and the Husum Wind Conference – the largest wind trade show in Europe.
In an effort to quell some of the rumors that they might back out of building the nation’s largest biodiesel plant, senior managers for Smiling Earth Energy held a press conference today on a dock overlooking the Elizabeth River’s Southern Branch… the future site of a 320-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel refinery.
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has released his plan for how Virginia will become more energy independent and practice better energy conservation… and at the top of the list seems to be the promise of more ethanol and biodiesel production.
The latest knock against ethanol claims the green fuel was fueling a spike in wheat prices as more growers were switching to corn acres to provide the feedstock for ethanol. But USDA’s Chief Economist Keith Collins says it just isn’t so.