The exhibit hall opened on Monday to over 180 companies who can network with other vendors, Federal, State, local government and private sector fleet menagers. Exhibitors included automobile manufacturers, alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicle promoters and more. The 2011 FedFleet conference will be held in Orlando, Florida from July 26-28.
Senators Introduce Domestic Energy Bill
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) introduced legislation yesterday that “focuses on developing and deploying safe, reliable domestically grown and produced energy.” According to the senators, the Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act (SAFEST) establishes strong renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, incentives for developing biofuels and biofuel infrastructure, and targets for the availability of …
Biodiesel Innovators Could Clean Up Gulf Oil Spill
Leave it to biodiesel to fix another problem caused by non-renewable petroleum. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says the same people who produce the green fuel could be formulating methyl esters, the chemical yielded in biodiesel production, into a biobased solvent safe for cleaning up shorelines impacted by the oil: The process starts with crews spraying the biosolvent from shallow …
Biodiesel Could Be Key to Winning War in Afghanistan
I know the name of this blog is Domestic Fuel, but I wanted to point out a story I found that makes the case how biodiesel might just help the U.S. win the war in Afghanistan. A new white paper from Wayne Arden, an expert in the financial technology field, and John Fox, a former CEO of a biodiesel company, …
NBB Pleased to See EPA’s Biodiesel Requirement
Today’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcement to require the domestic use of 800 million gallons of biodiesel in 2011 is being welcomed by the National Biodiesel Board. The group says the number, established under the new Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2), shows that biodiesel is the only widely accepted, commercial scale Advanced Biofuel produced in the U.S. that meets the definition …
William & Mary Turns Fish Killer Into Biodiesel
Virginia’s College of William and Mary is turning algae, which is killing fish in a local lake, into biodiesel. This article from the Daily Press says the school, working with industry and other universities, is using a flume to remove the algae from Lake Matoaka: A rectangle-shaped floating dock with its midsection removed, the flume acts as a channel that …
EPA Proposes 2011 Renewable Fuel Standard
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a proposal for comment that sets the 2011 percentage standards under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS2. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) established the annual renewable fuel volume targets, reaching an overall level of 36 billion gallons in 2022. To achieve these volumes, EPA calculates …
OriginOil to Harvest Hydrogen from Algae
OriginOil, Inc., a company that has developed technology to extract oil from algae to be a competitor with petroleum, has invented a process that will be able to get hydrogen from the living algae. This company press release says the new Hydrogen Harvester will use little or no external energy inputs, requires no sulfur deprivation or other “stressing” of the …
Loss of Biodiesel Incentive Killings Plants, Mandates
It’s been more than six months since the federal $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax incentive was allowed to expire, and more refineries … and even some mandates … are in serious trouble. This story from News14 in Charlotte, North Carolina says Patriot Biodiesel in Greensboro is in danger of closing because of the loss of the credit: “People aren’t buying biodiesel, not …
UK Trains to Use Biodiesel Additive
Just yesterday, I told you how International Fuel Technology had just recently finished testing on a couple of its fuel additives that make biodiesel run better with more miles per gallon. Now, the St. Louis-based company has announced that East Midlands Trains in the United Kingdom, which were the test trains for DiesoLiFT 10 in its light rail, diesel multiple …