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 [...]
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Discovery’s Future Car TV Show Talks Fuel
The Discovery channel is 3/4 of the way through their four part series on the car of the future, appropriately called Future Car. The most recent episode was about fuel and hit on everything from ethanol, bio-diesel, hydrogen and solar all the way to having a car powered by air. A few of the finer [...]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The White House Talks Green… With a Few Notable Exceptions
In his recent State of the Union address, George W Bush talked about, and seemed to support, many of the most promising areas of renewable energy. With the current global political climate, and our war in Iraq (that seems to be becoming more about oil every day), it is no surprise that the White House [...]
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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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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Runnin’ with E85
I’ve had a flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) for a couple of years, a 2003 Ford Taurus. The FFV is one that can run on a mixture of ethanol (sometimes methanol, but not in my case) and gasoline, at any mixture ratio from 0% ethanol to 85% ethanol, which is what E85 is – 85% ethanol, [...]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
A Plea to Our Nation’s Leaders: Get Us Off Foreign Oil!
Tonight I was visited by someone from the Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, and it inspired me to make the following plea to our nation’s leaders: To our Leaders at all levels, It’s time to get serious about Renewable Energy. This country has made some good steps, but it’s time for more serious action. We [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
The Distant Future of Biofuels
This month in Discover Magazine there is an article celebrating their Scientist of the Year and two nominees. The Scientist of the Year is Jay Keasling, and he is what has become known as a synthetic biologist. His immediate work is shooting for a low-cost, mass manufacturing method for producing an effective drug against malaria [...]
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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 ethanol [...]
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
Biodiesel May Be Catching On
As I travel around the Midwest doing yo-yo shows, I have been seeing more and more evidence that biodiesel is entering the public consciousness. In the style of the old (like 1950s era) Burma Shave ads, I have started seeing biodiesel ads. These are in the same style as the ones that you have probably [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Biodiesel Co-op Starts Up in Madison WI
A group of ten forward-thinking Madisonians have turned the former Car Care Clinic at 1894 E. Washington Ave into PrairieFire BioFuels Cooperative. If all goes well they will be selling 100% biodiesel from a real, honest-to-goodness pump on E. Washington Ave. by the end of the summer. At the moment all fuel sales are done [...]
