A group that touts its efforts to promote “the sustainable production and equitable distribution of energy and food in communities across Minnesota” has issued a report on the renewable fuels used for transportation in this country. The Minnesota Project’s Transportation Biofuels in the United States: An Update looks at many of the issues regarding biofuels in this country, including food …
New Washington Biodiesel Plant Forms Partnership
Earlier this week, I told you how Washington state-based Inland Empire Oilseeds had finished work on its canola-crushing facility to feed its biodiesel operation at the Odessa, Washington plant. Now it looks like the biodiesel brewer has a local utility to help prove the worth of its green fuel. This press release from Avista Corp. says the energy company is …
USDA Gives $13 Mil for Renewable Energy Projects
The USDA is handing out another $13 million in loans and grants for 233 renewable energy projects in rural areas of 38 different states. The projects were announced in this press release and during a speech at the Farm Progress Show in Illinois, that included some of the highlighted projects: The loan guarantees and grants can be used for renewable …
DF Cast: Biodiesel Makes Engines Roar
On a warm, clear summer evening in Central Missouri, the night air practically thunders to life as 3,000 horsepower of tractor-pulling power is started and modified machines of farm implement heritage rumble down a dirt track. While the behemoths of the National Tractor Pullers Association Midwest Extreme Truck and Tractor Pull are pushed to the limits of what an engine …
Biotricity Turning Waste into Fuel
Saying it is on a path less taken, a Houston, Texas company is looking for alternatives to alternative energy. To that end, Biotricity Corporation has announced through this press release poster on Reuters.com that it is pursuing a strategy to make energy out of biomass: Biotricity’s technology can take raw waste products such as sawdust, wood chips, corn stover or …
New Washington State Biodiesel Plant Comes On Line
A new, eight-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant in Washington state has come on line with the opening of the facility’s canola crusher, joining its biodiesel brewer that began refining last November. This article from the Ritzville Adams County Journal says the Inland Empire Oilseeds plant in Odessa, Washington is a one-stop shop for the green fuel: “With the addition of the crusher, …
Illinois Ups Biodiesel Mandate to 5 Percent
Legislation that increases the amount of biodiesel state and local governments in Illinois must use has been signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn. Biodiesel Magazine reports now the biodiesel blend for use by diesel-powered vehicles owned by the state or local governments when refueling at a bulk central fueling facility moves up from 2 to 5 percent: The Illinois …
Grassley to Host EPA Officials at Iowa Biodiesel Plant
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will play host to a pair of EPA officials at an Iowa biodiesel plant this coming Thursday at 3 pm. Let’s hope he can use the opportunity to teach them the REAL math behind the amount of corn and soybeans it takes to make ethanol and biodiesel. This story from Biodiesel Magazine says Grassley will …
Second Biodiesel Boat to Shuttle Pearl Harbor Visitors
Last April, I told you about how visitors to one of the most sacred places in U.S. history, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were now being shuttled out to the USS Arizona Memorial by a boat that runs on biodiesel. This U.S. Navy press release says a second biodiesel boat, USS Arizona Ferry Boat #39-2, “Samuel G. Fuqua,” is now taking people …
Ford’s B20 Biodiesel-compatible Engine Cheered by NBB
The news that Ford has developed a new diesel engine… code-named Scorpion… to put in its 2011 F-Series Super Duty diesel pickups will be fully compatible with a 20 percent biodiesel blend (B20) (see my post from yesterday) is being welcomed by the National Biodiesel Board: “This is the first of what we expect to be many formal announcements of …