The twinkling Christmas lights glistening off the new fallen white snow this season at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania will be powered by a green fuel: biodiesel. This press release from Hershey’s says the lodge is using a local company to turn its old kitchen grease into biodiesel: Hershey Lodge will use biodiesel made by recycling its used cooking …
Biodiesel Summit to Feature Imperium Chief
The Biodiesel Finance & Investment Summit, January 14th-16th, 2008 in New York, NY, will feature Martin Tobias, the president of biodiesel giant Imperium Renewables, as one of three keynote speakers. Joining Tobias will be James W. Eiler, Managing Director, First National Investment Banking and Gene Gebolys, President and CEO of World Energy Alternatives. The summit’s web site invites those interested …
Chocolate Biodiesel Truck Heads to Timbuktu
A truck that runs on biodiesel made from waste chocolate and that I featured during a post on November 15th has left England for Timbuktu in Africa. This update from the Environment News Service says the trip is designed to raise public awareness about biofuels and their potential to ease the impact of climate change: Andy Pag of London and …
Oregon Biorefinery Looking at $500 M Financing Deal
Officials with Inland Pacific Energy Center of Stanfield, Oregon are looking at a $504 million financing deal from an undisclosed European source. This story from the East Oregonian news web site says the deal will go to finish a 96-million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant, 120-million-gallon ethanol plant, and feed mill project: Bob Doughty, project manager for the Inland Pacific Energy Center, said …
CO2 from Coal Burning to Help Grow Biodiesel
Two Australian companies are joining forces to use the carbon dioxide from burning coal to grow algae… and then turn that algae into biodiesel. This article on C|Net.com has more details about this truly green idea: Linc Energy and Bio Clean Coal announced the creation of the company last week and said they would spend $1 million over the next …
Biden Calls for Energy’s “Apollo Project”
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware) has unveiled a five-year, $50 billion energy plan akin to the Apollo project that put men on the moon during a campaign stop in Iowa. This story in the Des Moines Register says Biden’s plan will use a combination of alternative energy production and conservation: “The innovative capacity of the United States of …
Media Invited to Ride in Challenge X Vehicles
General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy have invited the media to ride in the vehicles participating in the Challenge X Competition… a multi-year engineering competition that has 17 university teams from across North America in a real-world engineering experience to develop GM vehicles in the company’s global vehicle development process. The idea is the teams will create advanced …
Iowa Hands Out $500K to Expand Biofuels Access
A state program administered by the Iowa Department of Economic Development has handed out $563,800 to 21 Iowa retailers installing pumps for E-85 and biodiesel fuel, terminals installing biodiesel storage tanks and blending equipment, and tank wagons for farm delivery having dedicated compartments for E-85 and biodiesel. This press release from the Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program Board (RFIPB) has more: …
Turkey Day Goes Green
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a turkey, and lots of folks like to fry their bird in a pot of cooking oil. A company in Colorado that hauls away restaurant grease is asking people to donate their used cooking oil to be made into biodiesel. This story in the Rocky Mountain News has more: And while the amount of turkey …
New Holland Backs Biodiesel 100 Percent
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, New Holland has approved the use of 100 percent biodiesel in all equipment with New Holland-manufactured diesel engines. New Holland representatives Gene Hemphill and Michael Long were at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting annual meeting last week talking with farm broadcasters about that announcement and other news from New Holland. In …