Friday, November 7th, 2008
Myco-Diesel: Fuel Made By A Fungus
A scientist at Montana State University discovered a fungus in the rainforest that makes Diesel. Boom. That’s it. You feed the fungus, it poops, then you drive your truck with it.
Of course this is still in the early stages, and it will take years to set up a project to see if this is commercially [...]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
University of Wisconsin, Madison to Lead National Bioenergy Initiative
Wisconsin will soon light the way to energy independence, thanks to a $125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. UW-Madison announced plans for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, where UW scientists will work in partnership with two other universities to develop methods of converting plants into renewable liquid fuels.
Read the full story [...]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Indianapolis Using Biodiesel Hybrid Buses
Being a top soy bean producer, it is in Indiana’s economic as well as environmental interest to use soy-derived bio diesel. Indygo, Indianapolis’ mass transit company has recently introduced hybrid buses that burn fuel produced right here in Inidana.
Read about Indianapolis’ first winter Ozone Action Day here.
Read more about the new busses here.
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Biobutanol is the Next Big Thing in Renewable Energy
As excited as I am about Biodiesel and SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) as fuel for vehicles, I don’t have a diesel car and don’t see one in my near future. If you are like me there is new hope: Biobutanol.
Biobutanol is a form of alcohol that can replace gasoline. It is similar to [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Myth Busters Tries Biodiesel… sort of.
The Discovery Channel’s Myth Busters, one of the best shows ever made, recently used Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) in episode #53 “Exploding Pants”. It’s a great episode where in addition to trying to replicate the myth of the exploding pants from 1930s New Zealand, they investigate the spectacular claims of mile-per-gallon boosters that they find [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
BioTown, USA
I would not have thought of Indiana as being a leader on the frontier of environmentalism. But lo and behold, Govenor Mitch Daniels declared Reynolds IN as BioTown, USA on Sept 13th 2005.
The newspaper INtake published an article last week that seems almost too good to be true. Not only is it about [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Anything Into Oil… Even Turkey Guts
I have to admit that I was skeptical when I first heard about people running their cars on french fry grease. Run your car on a waste product, and have it smell good at the same time? Too good to be true.
Now though, it seems that quite a few people are actually doing [...]
