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, 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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
