Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group will be opening a new multi-million dollar research and support lab for seven network biodiesel production plants and others in the industry this coming Tuesday, July 28th at its Ames locaiton. The company is promising reporters some pretty cool photo and video opportunities with a live demonstration of biodiesel production and more than 25 biodiesel feedstocks …
Trucks Line Up for BioTrucker Biodiesel
It was quite a scene today as more than 50 semis, pickup trucks and cars lined up for biodiesel at the newest stop in the BioTrucker network at the Gas City station in Romeoville, Ill. This press release from the National Biodiesel Board says Gas City was offering off per gallon on the purchase of B11: The B11 blend, common …
Report: Airlines Should Use 80% Biofuels by 2050
The airline industry should shoot to have 80 percent of its fuels come from ethanol and biodiesel by the year 2050. This post on the gas2.0.org Web site says the “Green Skies Thinking” published today by right wing think-tank Policy Exchange pushes the phase-in of an EU Sustainable Bio-Jet Fuel Blending Mandate by 2020, leading to aviation companies having to …
Biodiesel from Chicken Feathers
From the guys who brought you biodiesel brewed from coffee grounds (see my post from Dec. 11, 2008), now they’ve come up with a process to turn the 11 billion pounds of poultry waste produced in the U.S. each year into the green fuel. Science Daily has details of the process from the researchers at the University of Nevada-Reno: In …
Oregon Biodiesel Mandate Ready to Start
Starting next month, nine counties in Northwest Oregon will require all diesel to contain at least 2 percent biodiesel. This comes two years after all gasoline statewide had to have a 10 percent ethanol blend. This story from OregonLive.com says that while the city of Portland has already mandated a biodiesel blend since August 2007, Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Clatsop, Columbia, …
Wind Could Spark Minnesota’s Economy
In these times of tough economic news, a new wind could be blowing opportunity into the Midwest. This story from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal says a report from the think tank Minnesota 2020 says that state, already the fourth largest provider of wind energy in the nation, could create more than 2,200 jobs and generate about $9 billion in …
Iowa State Biodiesel Work Wins “Oscar of Invention”
And the Oscar goes to… researchers at Iowa State University for their work on biodiesel. This ISU press release posted on IowaPolitics.com says the team won a 2009 R&D 100 Award, dubbed the “Oscars of Invention” by the Chicago Tribune and handed out by the editors of R&D Magazine that salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the …
Homebrewing Biodieselers to Meet in DC
While the big National Biodiesel Conference is geared toward the big producers, there is a gathering for those folks who like to brew up a batch of the green fuel in their garages. After spending the last three years in Colorado, the Collective Biodiesel Conference is being held at American University in Washington, DC. This year’s meeting features Josh Tickell, …
Researchers: Biofuels Can Be Beneficial
A group of researchers, many from Princeton University, say that biofuels can solve many of the problems related to non-renewable fossil fuels… without creating more problems of their own. This article from Princeton says the key is making the green fuels from sustainable sources: “The world needs to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, but recent research findings have thrown …
New Biodiesel Plant Starts in Canada
A new, 2.6 million-gallon-per-year seed-crushing and biodiesel plant has come on line in Canada. Biodiesel Magazine reports that the Milligan Bio-Tech Inc. plant in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan is now fully operational: According to a spokesperson for the company, the new plant is being referred to as Milligan Bio-Tech’s “optimization” plant. Its production capacity is10 MMly (approximately 2.6 MMgy) and uses …