Christmas cookies helping you grow your spare tire a little more this season? Well, you could get that fat sucked out and made into biodiesel to power your green ride. According to this article from Forbes, for a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner was turning the fat he liposuctioned from patients into biodiesel and putting it into his …
IRS Offers Biodiesel, Ethanol Tax Guidance
In a previous post, I told you how I felt that with all the holidays and the bowl game season how this was truly the most wonderful time of the year. Unfortunately, it leads into the most DREADED time of the year… tax time. The end of the year means that lots of folks will be getting their tax information …
Bowl Game Powered by Wind
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… when football fans like me get to feast on a cornucopia of football games! Basically, from now (and even before) until the first week in January, there will be a steady parade of college bowl games, and one I’d like to point out this year is the Emerald Bowl. This posting from …
Military Inks $35 Mil in Algae-Biodiesel Contracts
The U.S. military has inked a pair of deals worth about $35 million to develop biodiesel made from algae. Cleantech.com reports two San Diego companies will work on the fuel to be used by the U.S. Army and Air Force: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a $14.9 million deal with Science Applications International to work on making …
Iowa RFA to be Lead by Biodiesel Producer
For the first time in its history, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association is being led by a biodiesel producer. And, another biodiesel producer is the group’s vice president. This story from Biodiesel Magazine says Denny Mauser, with biodiesel producer Western Iowa Energy, has become president of the IRFA, and Nile Ramsbottom, with biodiesel producer REG Inc., was appointed vice president: …
Obama Seen as Good for Solar Power
President-elect Barack Obama’s promise to make alternative energy a priority could end up being a big boost for the solar power industry. This story from Mlive.com says Michigan could become the hub for that solar power growth: Thomas Township-headquartered Hemlock Semiconductor’s Corp. announced Monday it will add up to a $1 billion expansion to manufacture polycrystalline silicon, or polysilicon, at …
POET Pitches in to Help Santa
Leave it to the world’s largest ethanol producer to also be in contention for one of the largest hearts as well. Our friends at the Poet Biorefining plant in Glenville, Minnesota are playing Santa this week to 27 families in their local area who just need a little help this Christmas. This story from the Albert Lea (MN) Tribune explains …
$3 Million+ to Go to CT Biodiesel Producers, Schools
Three universites in Connecticut will share more than $900,000 in state grants to test biofuel quality as well as to study different production methods and feedstocks, and another $2.2 million in grants will go to four biodiesel production facilities to help leverage at least $6 million in private investment. This press release from Gov. M. Jodi Rell has details: “My …
German Biodiesel Taxes Open Opportunity for US Company
An increase in taxes on biodiesel in Germany is expected to decrease that country’s production of the green fuel. But since Germans’ appetites for biodiesel are unlikely to be lessened, an American company sees the tax hike as a chance to move into the large European market. This press release from Global Earth Energy, Inc. says there’s opportunities in the …
Plenty to See & Do at Biodiesel Conference
Got a reminder in my e-mail today about the upcoming National Biodiesel Conference & Expo, Feb. 1-4, 2009, in San Francisco. There will be a ton of things to see and do, ranging from hearing Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer Melissa Etheridge talking about how biodiesel has inspired her… to information on the sustainability efforts being made in the biodiesel industry. …