A biomass-based synthetic diesel is being featured at the Green Cars LA Auto Show Ride & Drive event. Rentech, Inc. says its synthetic RenDiesel(R) fuel is powering an Audi A3 TDI, coming on the heels of the recent four-day, 1,000 mile endurance drive that is part of the 2010 Green Car of the Year Tour: During [last month’s] drive, the …
Greenfleet Website Features Navy’s Biofuels Efforts
A new website from the U.S. Navy features the service’s efforts to use biofuels, as well as environmental and climate change issues. Greenfleet.dodlive.mil is the latest place to point your browser toward to see how the programs actually help the Navy increase combat capability and ensure mission readiness: Energy Security The Navy’s energy programs focus on having an adequate, reliable, …
Lee Enterprises Gets Former Biodiesel Board Member
An Arkansas-based biodiesel consulting group has added a former member of the National Biodiesel Board to its team of biofuels consultants. Lee Enterprises has announced the addition of Jess Hewitt to its team of biofuels consultants. In addition to his work on the NBB, Hewitt has more than three decades of experience in the energy sector, including his current role …
Time Picks Biodiesel Train as One of 2010’s 50 Best
A passenger train that runs on biodiesel has been picked as one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010. Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer offers daily service between Ft. Worth, Texas and Oklahoma City, OK: Since spring, the Heartland Flyer has been running on 20% biodiesel rather than the carbon-heavy diesel fuel on which Amtrak’s other trains — with the exception …
Peoria Wraps Biodiesel Bus
A city bus in Peoria, Illinois is now proudly proclaiming its use of biodiesel. This article from the Peoria Journal Star says the bus is wrapped in a scene of white clouds and green fields: “This bus runs on B20 biodiesel,” says an advertising wrap which promotes cleaner fuels. According to mass transit officials and their partners in this promotion, …
Biodiesel Heating Oil Part of NAFB Trade Talk
The use of biodiesel in heating oil … better known as bioheat … was part of the talk at the recent National Association of Farm Broadcasters’ meeting in Kansas City, MO. Our own Cindy Zimmerman caught up with two players in the bioheat business … one from the raw material end and the other on the consumer-distribution end … to …
Wind Large Part of GE’s $6 Bil in Renewable Energy
The vast majority of the $6 billion GE Energy Financial Services has put into its renewable energy efforts has gone into wind energy development. The Wall Street Journal reports that most of the $6 billion has been invested in the past six years: For GE, about 80% of the capital went to providing equity and debt for wind projects. As …
Maryland Offshore Wind Project Gets Boost from Feds
A proposed massive wind farm off the coast of Maryland got a big boost this week when the federal government issued both a Request for Interest (RFI) and a map of an offshore wind leasing area in federal waters just off Maryland’s Atlantic coast. The Dispatch of Ocean City (MD) reports that Maryland is just the second state in the …
King: GOP House Good for Ethanol, Biodiesel Tax Cuts
Republicans taking control of the U.S. House is good for the chances of the federal ethanol and biodiesel tax breaks seeing renewal … that’s according to a GOP member from Iowa. AgriNews.com reports that U.S. Rep. Steve King also believes that this Congress will have a lot more members who are from agricultural areas … also a positive trend: “That …
Jatropha Grower Ups Land After EU Raises Biodiesel Targets
An American-based company that has land in the Philippines for jatropha plantations has announced it will try to acquire more land after the European Union has upped its targets for biodiesel sales. Corpus Christi, Texas’ GreenGold Ray Energies has announced it will try to add another another 200,000 acres for jatropha cultivation by 2012 because current biodiesel production is not …