Over the last month, I’ve been telling you how some airlines have been racing to become the first to use biodiesel in a commercial flight… whether it was camelina-based biodiesel from Montana or algae-based biodiesel. Both of those flights are scheduled for January, but it looks like a jatropha-based biodiesel flight will beat them to the punch. This story from …
Toro Turns to Biodiesel
A company famous for its lawn tractors, mowers and snow blowers is offering more of its products to run on biodiesel. This article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune says Twin Cities-based Toro Co. is getting more requests for biodiesel-powered equipment… and it is responding: Toro Co. has experienced an increase in demand for biodiesel products in the past five years …
Algae-Biodiesel Maker Raises Funds for Commercial Plant
A Florida-based algae-biodiesel maker has raised funds for what it hopes will become its first commercial plant. This story from TheAutoChannel.com says PetroAlgae Inc. has raised $10 million in capital for the project: “The proceeds from this offering are expected to help finance the launch of PetroAlgae’s most significant milestone to-date, the commercialization of its first biodiesel product derived from …
Iowa Gets First Biodiesel Blender Pump
The folks who visit Ron’s Five Point Mart in Dubuque, Iowa will have a choice in the variety of biodiesel they put into their tanks… not just a choice of using biodiesel. The gas station has installed Iowa’s first biodiesel blender pump, which this article from the Dubuque (IA) Telegraph Herald says gives drivers a choice in what percentage of …
Eat Christmas Cookies, Save the Earth
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 …
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: …
$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 …