With just four races left in the current racing season, Volkswagen Motorsports has announced next year’s SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup schedule… a series that features clean-burning B5 biodiesel in its cars. This press release says Volkswagen of America has an online application page for prospective drivers at www.vwmotorsportusa.com, adding one more path that drivers may follow in …
Aurora Biofuels Improves Carbon-Eating Algae
In what is being characterized by the company as a major breakthrough in algae technology to be turned into biodiesel, California-based Aurora Biofuels has optimized algae strains that more than double their intake of carbon dioxide… important for producing the oil that is eventually turned into biodiesel. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says while it’s hard to figure how much …
Algae Researchers to Talk Energy in St. Louis
Researchers will be gathering in St. Louis next week for the “Algae-to-Energy Research and Development in the South” meeting. The Center for Evergreen Energy in conjunction with The Southern Growth Policies Board and The Southern Agriculture and Forestry Resource Alliance (SAFER) is hosting the meeting of southern algae researchers on August 26th at the Regional Chamber and Growth Association’s office …
Kentucky Biodiesel Plant Set to Open This Month
A 14-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant in Kentucky is on schedule for opening later this month. Biodiesel Magazine reports that the multi-feedstock Bluegrass BioDiesel plant at Falmouth, Ky. is about halfway through testing all of its systems and should be up and running by the end of August: General Manager Rich Wojtkowski described a number of features used in the plant to …
The Science of Algae Biodiesel Explored on Nova
One of the benefits of doing this job is that I can do it from the comfort of my easy chair, while watching some of my favorite programs with one eye and searching for stories with the other (hey, God gave me two eyes… just consider it multi-tasking). But tonight, my eyes are firmly fixed on the tube, as one …
Airlines Ink Deal to Buy Biodiesel
Eight major U.S. airlines have signed a deal that will see them buying 1.5 million gallons of renewable biodiesel a year to use in ground equipment starting in 2012. This press release from the Air Transport Association of America, an industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, says Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, …
Wisconsin School to Hold Biofuels Symposium
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will play host to the upcoming Bio-Fuels and Energy Independence Symposium, bringing together researchers from laboratories, universities and businesses around the Midwest to talk about the latest work in biofuels technology. This story from KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota says the symposium runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at UW-Superior’s Rothwell Student Center: …
Ma Bell Uses Alternatives to Cut 300 Tons of Emissions
Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are paying off for AT&T. This story posted on EnvironmentalLeader.com says the telephone behemoth’s conversion of some of its fleet vehicles in California to alternative fuels are part of a bigger plan that also includes solar panels and recycling scrap metals: AT&T also introduced a new fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles that will lower its …
Sustainable Biodiesel Maker to Distribute in Rockies
A maker of sustainable biodiesel in Colorado has inked a deal to supply biodiesel to a distributor for three years. This press release from Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises says the company will supply up to 4.5 million gallons of biodiesel a year for the next three years to fuel distributor Gray Oil Company, Inc.: The biodiesel will be supplied from …
Chicago Green Music Fest to Feature Biodiesel
This weekend’s Green Music Fest in Chicago will be running on a green fuel… biodiesel. The Chicago Tribune reports that the inaugural event will combine earth-friendly practices, such as using biodiesel to help pump up the jams, with some great music: In its ambitious first year, the local festival, staged Saturday and Sunday in West Town’s Eckhart Park, aspires to …