Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Swedish Cow Train
It used to be that people only got methane from dung. That is no longer the case. Check out what those crazy Swedes are doing. Svensk Biogas of Linkoping Sweden has figured out a way to use the whole cow too! In addition to the dung they can now use chopped up cow parts in [...]
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Jessica Alba Loves Biodiesel
Jessica Alba was just on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to plug her new movie: The Fantastic Four 2. Right at the end of the interview she mentioned that she is really into alternative fuels, and she tried to convince Jay to run his diesel vehicles on biodiesel. He was thoroughly unimpressed. Nice try [...]
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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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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Willie Nelson is into Biodiesel… who knew?
Not only is Willie Nelson into Biodiesel, but he has an entire webiste and business devoted to it. One of their selling points is that biodiesel is fuel that is a fully renewable enrgy source, it is grown right here in America, and it supports our farmers. I think this is a great way of [...]
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Dung Power
I was talking to my friend Harish at the dog park today, and he asked me if I had heard of the people in India who use dung to produce energy. He didn’t have any specifics for me, but when I looked around for “Dung Power” this is what I found. The next energy source: [...]
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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 trying [...]
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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 it. [...]
