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Biodiesel board announces sustainability principles
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , USA The National Biodiesel Board has completed it’s annual conference meeting in San Francisco and one of the larger announcements are new rules for sustainable biodiesel. A Sustainability Task Force met during the event and developed and passed the principles that demonstrate...
General Motors launches ChallengeX followup: EcoCar, the NeXt Challenge
Auto Blog: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Hydrogen , GM Last spring, General Motors wrapped up the fou- year Challenge X program where 17 university teams from the United States and Canada competed to design and build a hybrid drive Chevrolet Equinox . At the conclusion of Challenge X, GM announced that the...
College students turn dining hall fry oil into biodiesel
Auto Blog: Biodiesel College students probably tend to veer toward the more environmentally aware end of the spectrum than the population in general. As a result, it should come as no real surprise to see said students working on producing biodiesel from the waste fry oil from the dining halls during...
What’s green, three-wheeled and can park by the blue signs?
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , Etc. , EV/Plug-in , Green Daily Click on the image above for a gallery of BioTrike Using fewer resources to get around isn’t limited to any particular group of people. Heck, there are more 43 percent electric wheelchairs in the U.S. than electric vehicles (this statistic...
Sustainable biodiesel summit takes place this weekend in San Francisco
Auto Blog: Biodiesel Coming to you live, for one weekend only, it’s the fabulous Sustainable Biodiesel Summit, which is about what you probably think it’s about. This year’s Sustainable Biodiesel Summit will blend the sustainability message with a local one. The official theme is,...
First stage of Nevada algae biodiesel completed successfully
Auto Blog: Biodiesel One of the most promising biofuel feedstocks in recent years has been algae. Algae is high in oil content, potentially providing much higher yields of fuel than any other current crop – as much as 100 times more than soy, for example. Researchers at the University of Nevada-Reno...
School buses in Minnesota were stalled because of biodiesel
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , Green Daily Photo by Kevindooley . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0 . Diesel engines have a hard time operating in the cold, whether biodiesel is involved or not. Apparently, it was this boring old truth that messed with those school buses in Minnesota recently. Early...
Australian biofuel imports hurting SE Asian rainforests
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , Ethanol , Pacific Region Photo of “Australia” by reinn . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. As anyone who has seen episode 2F13 of The Simpsons (aka Bart vs. Australia ) knows, introducing foreign species into an environment can have dangerous effects. A...
Red… Yellow… GREEN! Alternative vehicles take over drag strip
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , Ethanol , EV/Plug-in , Flex-Fuel , Hydrogen , Vegetable Oil , On Two Wheels , Green Daily , UK , Racing Green means go. It’s one of the first universal truths taught in school and it will be proven once again at the upcoming Santa Pod’s Alternative Energy Race Day....
Gelling biodiesel causes Minnesota school closings
Auto Blog: Biodiesel , Etc. , Green Daily Anyone who’s experimented with running waste veggie oil in their diesel vehicles knows that it doesn’t work so well in cold weather. Even using refined biodiesel causes problems because of the higher paraffin content compared to petro-diesel. Unfortunately...
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