A new hydrogen plant at the Yeager Airport near Charleston, West Virginia. This story from West Virginia Public Broadcasting says the facility isn’t very big… just the size of a shed. But when it is up and running, it will help provide a corridor of the ultimately green fuel all the way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kim Redlein is a technical …
Biodiesel Facility Opens in Colorado
Colorado’s latest biodiesel production facility is open for business. Rocky Mountain Biodiesel, Colorado’s only licensed advanced biofuel producer, has opened its Parker, Colorado biodiesel plant. This company press release says for $20 a year, Rocky Mountain Biodiesel club memberships allow customers to buy B99.9 biodiesel for $2.30 per gallon, as well as supplying the green fuel to regional fuel distributors: …
Fuel Cell Model T, Biodiesel Truck Hits at GovEnergy
Some students from Rhode Island have certainly been getting quite the education when it comes to renewable energy… and they’re passing their knowledge along. Students in Ponaganset High School teacher Ross McCurdy’s class have taken their fuel-celled powered Model T and a biodiesel-powered pickup truck that they drove 3,000 miles cross-country last summer to GovEnergy 2009, the premier energy training …
Flinchbaugh Chairing Farm Foundation
Cigar-chomping, irreverent, and always entertaining professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, Barry Flinchbaugh, is now the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Farm Foundation. It seems only fitting that Flinchbaugh, known for his direct style and usually correct stances (even when conventional wisdom might say something else) is leading an organization that is known for thinking outside …
US Navy to Develop Portable Biodiesel Production Unit
The U.S. Navy is working with Biodiesel Industries and aerospace and defense company Aerojet to develop a high-tech, remote-controlled, automated, portable biodiesel production unit. This story from Biodiesel Magazine says the project at the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center in Port Hueneme, Calif. will called ARIES… Automated, Real-time, Remote, Integrated Energy System: With the resources and modus operandi of the …
Biodesel Powers Radio at Iowa State Fair
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has teamed up with legendary radio station WHO in Des Moines to power its Crystal Studio at the Iowa State Fair from August 13-23 using B20 biodiesel. This IRFA press release says the diesel generators for the studio have been running on bodiesel during the fair since 2006: “IRFA is proud to help continue the …
BP, Martek Ink Deal to Make Biodiesel from Sugars
BP and Martek Biosciences Corporation have signed a deal to develop an advanced biodiesel from sugars. The agreement will use Martek’s ability to work with microbes and BP’s large-scale capabilites: “Martek is pleased to partner with BP’s Alternative Energy team, to combine our unique algae-based technologies and intellectual property for the creation of sustainable and affordable technology for microbial biofuel …
Newest GM Diesel to Burn B20
General Motors’ latest heavy-duty diesel engine is set to burn a 20 percent biodiesel blend. This post on PickupTrucks.com says the Duramax diesel V-8 will burn the green fuel to help it meet tough new emissions standards for 2010: The so-called LML Duramax will be certified to run on biodiesel blends of up to B20, which is 80 percent ultra-low-sulfur …
IRFA Hires Menke As Biofuels Manager
I always love to report when a fellow Iowan finds his way back home again. After serving for the past six years as a research assistant for U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in Washington, D.C., Grant Menke has been hired as the Biofuels Manager for the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA). This IRFA press release has details: “It is certainly …
Scientists Trying to Make Fuel from Zoo Poo
Get your pooper-scoopers ready, because scientists in New Orleans are tapping into the products of some zoo animals’ backsides to move forward in green energy. The New Orleans CityBusiness reports that researchers at Tulane University are trying to produce butanol from the waste of animals from the zoo: A project to identify and genetically engineer bacteria to create butanol has …