Massachusetts is about to get its first commercial biodiesel distribuiton facility. This story from the North Andover (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune says Baystate Biofuels is using an old Lucent property for the center and will come as the state’s biodiesel mandate kicks in next summer: “In about 10 days, we’ll have biofuel for sale off our rail cars,” Baystate Biofuels chief executive …
Webinar Features Talk on Algae for Fuels & Chemicals
Last time, we told you about how researchers are working on ways of making algae into a viable feedstock for Midwest biodiesel production. In this edition of the Domestic Fuel Cast, we continue the conversation on algae and it’s potential as a fuel… and the chemical by-products and processes it can bring to the table. During the recent 2009 World …
REG to Open Biodiesel Research Facility
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 …
New “BioTrucker” Stop Offers Biodiesel Savings
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) welcomed the Gas City station in Romeoville, Illinois as the latest addition to the BioTrucker network. BioTrucker is a program that encourages truck stops to sell environmentally friendly, domestically produced biodiesel blends. Biodiesel is an alternative to diesel fuel. It’s made from diverse renewable resources, such as recycled cooking oil and soybean oil. Bill Schireman, …
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, …
Efficient Irrigation Can Improve Biofuels ROI
Lindsay Corporation, maker of Zimmatic® irrigation systems, has produced a new biofuels brochure called “Improving Biofuel ROI Through Efficient Irrigation Solutions.” The eight-page full-color brochure includes information on key biofuel crops, the benefits of biofuels, market growth opportunities for biofuels, and irrigation management recommendations to help growers optimize the yield, size distribution and quality of biofuel crops. “Several factors are …
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, …