We’ve all been told that this was so, and we’ve all had the notion that it might be true. Forty or fifty years ago we had claims of the auto carburetor that gave drivers 400 MPG (but the car companies …
Category: Biofuels
Nailing Down the Sustainability of Processing Waste Isn’t Easy
Here’s an article on waste oil recycling that a friend sent me earlier. Every time I see something like this I wonder about the overall sustainability of the enterprise. Obviously, waste grease doesn’t collect, purify, and distribute itself. Is all …
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From Guest Blogger Ross James: Finding an Approved Biomass Fuel Supplier
2015 will be here before we know it, and with the new year comes new rules for the renewable energy industry: from spring 2015, all of the biomass fuel used within houses, businesses and any other organisations that are claiming …
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The Future of Biofuels
If there’s anyone I respect in the biofuels industry, it’s Jim Lane, editor & publisher of Biofuels Digest, the most widely-read biofuels daily and newsletter. He knows that I’m not a huge believer, but we had a very detailed and …
I Try To Write in the Active Voice, and I Say: DuPont’s $500 Million Biofuel Bet Is Bound To Fail
Verbs in Western languages have something called “voice”: active and passive. “Bob hit the ball,” is in the active voice. Here we have a subject, the active verb “hit,” and an object. I could have written, “The ball was hit …
Here’s Why Chevron Couldn’t Make Biofuels Work
According to this article in Renewable Energy World, “Chevron Corp.’s attempts to turn plants into alternative fuels for profitable, large-scale production have failed.” The author goes on to note: The second-largest U.S. oil company by market value spent “significant sums” …
Could a Variety of Jatropha Play an Important Role in Biofuels?
Those of you keeping track of the evolution of biofuels may be interested in this piece on a hybrid variety of jatropha. Personally, I view the whole biofuels enterprise as a snooze. We’re trying to replace the source of the …
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Greenwashing: I Can’t Define It, But I Know It When I See It
Here’s a post that won’t take much work; I just copied and pasted it from a laughable press release a reader sent me. ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 29 (UPI) — Five trains in operation at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., are running …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: Biofuels Can Provide the Same Amount of Energy as Crude Oil
Biofuels have been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, due to rising oil prices and increased concern over the effects that fossil fuels have on the environment, but they are still far from being a true and viable …
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From Guest Blogger Deepi: How Biomass Waste Became The New Coal
Biomass briquette or white coal is a biofuel made from biomass waste materials with the help of biomass briquetting machine. Nowadays, through this machinery biomass waste converts into new coal which is known as white coal. Biomass briquetting is the …
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