Winter weather is upon us, and furnaces across the country have been kicking in. Now, that cozy heat on those frosty days can come to you in a green style: biodiesel. With that in mind, the National Biodiesel Board has launched Bioheatonline.com, a new Web site designed to educate customers and dealers on the beneficial properties of Bioheat® fuel… an …
Making Biodiesel and Feed on the Farm
One of the big knocks against biodiesel (and other renewable fuels made from grains) is that production of the green fuel takes away from feed for livestock (and for people). Well, a college in Canada is trying to break that image that livestock producers and biodiesel producers can’t work together. This story from Biodiesel Magazine says the Centre for Agricultural …
KFC Turning Waste Oil Into Biodiesel
They’re back to calling it Kentucky Fried Chicken, and frying is certainly key to the tasty delight with those magical herbs and spices. And now that leftover waste oil from the thousands of fryers in the thousands of KFC’s around the world… about 500 gallons each month per restaurant… could be turned into biodiesel. This story from the Louisville, Kentucky …
Biodiesel Conference to Feature Rock Icon Etheridge
As if you didn’t have enough reason to go to the 2009 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo, Feb. 1-4 in San Francisco, CA, there’s something for music AND biodiesel lovers. This NBB release says Grammy- and Oscar-winning rock icon Melissa Etheridge will offer her sweet, strong voice to help raise awareness about biodiesel… a green fuel that has been inspiring …
NJ Gets First Commercial Biodiesel Pump
New Jersey has its first retail biodiesel pump. Located in Maplewood, NJ, it’s operated by Woolley Fuel Company, and Sprague Energy Corp. is providing the biodiesel. The move gained the praise of the National Biodiesel Board: “While a number of fleets in New Jersey, including the Department of Transportation, have used biodiesel blends for many years, this pump opening marks …
Propel Offers E85 in Sacramento Area
Propel builds, owns and operates a growing network of clean fueling points. The Rocklin facility is the first of theirs to offer E85 but the group has six additional sites that offer biodiesel. Seven fueling sites will open soon and will carry biofuels in the cities of Citrus Heights, Sacramento, Elk Grove, Roseville and Placerville. The group’s goal is to …
Crumbling Infrastructure Hurting Rural Ethanol & Biodiesel Industries
Rural America’s infrastructure challenges cut to the heart of the six challenges outlined during this morning’s session of the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit being held in Washington, D.C. As you might have read on my earlier post over on AgWired.com, this morning, Farm Foundation Pres. Neil Conklin outlined the six major areas of challenges facing agriculture over …
ADM: We Can Have it All… Food & Fuel
The world’s population will grow by 33 percent by the year 2040, but the amount of farmland to feed and fuel that growing demand won’t have to grow by that same one-third… that’s what attendees at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. heard this morning. Greg Webb from Archer Daniels Midland gave that optimistic assessment …
Biodiesel Board Blasts Biofuel Plantations Report
The National Biodiesel Board is taking exception with a report that seems to equate unsustainable practices to produce biodiesel in some parts of the world with what American biodiesel producers are doing In a statement from Manning Feraci, Vice President of Federal Affairs at the NBB, the group takes aim at the report titled, “Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double …
Biofuels Key Part of Conversation at Farm Foundation Meeting
It was a pretty amazing event today at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. today. Seven former Secretaries of Agriculture (six in-person and one by videotape) debated the future of agriculture in America, especially what the immediate future would hold for the next person to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A big part of …