Turning to ethanol or biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping with the Thanksgiving tradition.
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Not exact matches
The
Doe Fund will pick up the cooking oil for free and sell it to producers who will convert it to
biodiesel fuel.
Or the
biodiesel itself can be further refined to ensure that it doesn't solidify until at least — 40 degrees Celsius -LRB--- 40 degrees Fahrenheit), the current standard for petroleum - derived jet fuel.
Biodiesel may not become the airplane fuel of the future but it
did prove effective enough to recently power a 1968 L - 29 Czechoslovakian jet — dubbed BioJet 1 — up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes.
For the record, I
do support merging the 2 technologies, especially plug - in hybrids with an engine powered by
biodiesel made from algae.
Generators running on
biodiesel or propane are also used for electricity in case existing, more environmentally friendly options don't meet needs.
But at least we can take solace that the US doesn't have the world's most stupid biofuel policy, that prize belongs to Indonesia for subsidizing palm oil
biodiesel.
Infrastructure may not grab the type of headline that, say, the latest solar or algal
biodiesel technology
does though, when placed in context, it really should.
Not only
does that ensure that they don't game the system, but you're also generating billions of dollars that can be invested in solar and wind and
biodiesel.
Whatever you grow that you don't use for food can then be fed into biofuel production (as well as biochar production, as a soil amendment, meaning NEGATIVE emissions), and then you have some amount of ethanol,
biodiesel, or bio-based hydrocarbon product.
Well, apparently Nebraska
biodiesel producers aren't doing so well either: The Beatrice Daily Sun in Nebraska tells a local story on the woes of trying to get a local biodiesel facility up and running in the context of this National Biodiesel Board statistic: Of the 176 commercial - scale biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them
biodiesel producers aren't
doing so well either: The Beatrice Daily Sun in Nebraska tells a local story on the woes of trying to get a local
biodiesel facility up and running in the context of this National Biodiesel Board statistic: Of the 176 commercial - scale biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them
biodiesel facility up and running in the context of this National
Biodiesel Board statistic: Of the 176 commercial - scale biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them
Biodiesel Board statistic: Of the 176 commercial - scale
biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them
biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them sit idle.
The Midwest
does not have the highest solar potential in the country (that is found in the Southwest), but its potential is nonetheless vast, with some parts of the Midwest having as good a solar resource as Florida.75 More than one - quarter of national installed wind energy capacity, one - third of
biodiesel capacity, and more than two - thirds of ethanol production are located in the Midwest (see also Ch.
From an old building turned we into a strawbale greenhouse heated by solar thermal system and
biodiesel (we make with a neighbor) to various renewable energy systems, we are pleased — happy — that what we invest in
does, in fact, make the world just a little better.
The best car on the market right now for the environment which can
do long ranges is the VW polo because it is officially compatible to run on 100 %
biodiesel (80 - 90 % carbon neutral), it also pioneers the new bluemotion technology which cleans up other pollutants and it
does over 80 miles / gallon.
Comparing the full lifecycle emissions of greenhouse gases by the two fuels from production through combustion in cars, Eric Johnson, editor of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, and Russell Heinen, Vice President of SRI Consulting, found that «
biodiesel derived from rapeseed grown on dedicated farmland emits nearly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions (defined as CO2 equivalents) per km driven as
does conventional diesel.»
Although production from oil palms is limited to tropical and subtropical regions, the crop yields much more
biodiesel per acre than
do temperate - zone oilseeds such as soybeans and rapeseed.
On top of that,
biodiesel drivers don't have to rely on foreign oil companies to set ever - fluctuating gas prices.
Some car manufacturers continue to drag their heels since further research needs to be
done to determine how high
biodiesel concentrations, like B100, will impact an engine's durability.
These problems can be avoided by federal and state policies that ensure
biodiesel demand
does not exceed the availability of low carbon
biodiesel sources.
biodiesel producers don't even use water in the process anymore.
Co-organizer of the Sustainable
Biodiesel Summit, Emily Bockian Landsburg, of Philadelphia Fry - o - Diesel (who have been
doing awesome work creating fuel from grease traps) was chosen to lead the task force within the national board.
«
Biodiesel or ethanol, mixed with gasoil or petrol, keep the actual model and therefore are stimulated; little matters if the first one doesn't reduce directly the contaminants by itself, or that the energetic balance of corn - based ethanol is totally debatable», he says.
We don't really have other good substitutes for jet fuel, but we have lots of ways other than waste oil
biodiesel to make cars & trucks greener.
«This demand has nothing to
do with the benefit of
biodiesel for the environment, but with its capacity to allow a correct function of diesel engines when sulfur is eliminated from the mineral fuel».
To replace fossil fuels, we can use either hydrogen from electrolysis or biomass ethanol or methanol or
biodiesel (and no, it doesn't have to come from corn).
Hence, adds that the
biodiesel production to be used to 100 % in a farm, the use of vegetable oil as direct fuel with little adaptations in the gas engines, hybrid cars, domestic Aeolian generators, etc, don't have enough media or institutional support.
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Here are the details: Crimson's new facility will be operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week to produce all that
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I am, for the most part, a believer in personal freedom but, like Lloyd's take on ATV's and the environment, I find it hard to see how off roading can be
done without significant ecological damage (I'm sure my
biodiesel buddies will disagree!).
For those that don't already know (it's not a big secret), I have initiated an official «arbitration» against the National
Biodiesel Board to break their monopoly on the production of biodiesel in the Unite
Biodiesel Board to break their monopoly on the production of
biodiesel in the Unite
biodiesel in the United States.
The contrast between here and Industrial could not be more striking — this is very much the
do - it - yourself hippy vibe one would expect from a
biodiesel co-op.
So far we've found little about this initiative on the coop's site itself, but we
did find this info on
Biodiesel Now's forums.
The Indian National Mission on
Biodiesel may have been quietly shelved recently, but that doesn't mean that state governments aren't continuing forward with their plans to cultivate Jatropha for b
Biodiesel may have been quietly shelved recently, but that doesn't mean that state governments aren't continuing forward with their plans to cultivate Jatropha for
biodieselbiodiesel.
Well, apparently Nebraska
biodiesel producers aren't
doing
I've never really understood the attraction of «off roading» - in fact, until I started brewing
biodiesel with some Off Road Vehicle (ORV) enthusiasts, I didn't even really know what it was.
I
do think that deforestation in Indonesia is an abomination, oil palm planations
do cause some defortestion, and that
biodiesel from oil palms may not ever take off.
A bad crop in the northern hemisphere can affect southern hemisphere planting and vice versa and besides, the Brazilians are planting more soy for their own domestic supply of
biodiesel irrespective of what the US is or is not
doing.
With gas prices hitting record highs and no relief in sight, we could all stand to use less, so for anyone who doesn't own a hybrid, or burn
biodiesel, here are some ways to clean up your driving.
I bought the first FuelMeister, which is a 45 gallon
biodiesel reactor, and after a few months my wife realized that we didn't have to go to the gas station anymore.
What you
do end up with, however, is a huge amount of protein - rich grubs that can be fed to chickens, or fish, or even turned into
biodiesel.
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Doing it is not good for the environment, but that doesn't stop the majority of us, and though there are some nice alternatives (like hybrids and
biodiesel), there is no silver
That's pretty much what Tommy Lee and Ludacris
did in Battleground Earth, when they stopped in Dallas to learn how to turn used frying oil into
biodiesel.
Saying that an eco lodge runs on
biodiesel electricity
does sound odd.
If you're a
do - it - yourselfer, though,
biodiesel can be made at home — a real DIYer can even make his / her own
biodiesel reactor with open - source plans available on the Internet.
I don't think we yet quite grasp the effect of $ 60 - a-barrel oil on food prices, because the capacity to distill ethanol and produce
biodiesel is not yet large enough to really have an impact.
Ponds don't work for this, you have to grow 24 × 7 to keep up with volume, Phoenix, AZ, produces 10M - gallons / day that is 41.5M - pounds of algae food to extract by tomorrow and worth about $ 8.3 M / day if you had to buy it at $ 400 / ton, this produces about 3M - gallons / day of
biodiesel or 7.5 L / 2gal per day per person, nearby SuperBowl Glendale produces the same amount.