Photo from: http://www.truckblog.com/story.asp?storyid=264
These are relatively early days for biofuels. “It’s been slower to catch on in Canada than in other parts of the world,” says Tanya McDonald, a research scientist specializes in bioenergy and environmental microbiology at the Olds College School of Innovation north of Calgary.
Government incentives such as the Alberta Bioenergy Producer Credit Program and the Ontario Ethanol Growth Fund offer financial assistance, and standards are already in place at the federal level and in several provinces, including Ontario and British Columbia.
Knowing how smart the people are in Canada, I’m sure they will soon catch up and pass us by in the use of biodiesel on the construction jobsite.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines said a blend of biologically derived fuel and jet fuel performed slightly better than jet fuel alone during a test flight by the world's fifth-largest airline.
The biofuel blend consisted of oil derived from algae and jatropha plants. The algae oil was provided by Sapphire Energy and the jatropha oil was provided by Terasol Energy.
Cost of fuel is a major concern for all airlines, so it is a needed evolution towards biodiesel that may someday be all that holds planes in sky.
Transonic Combustion's 100 mpg Demo Car photos from: http://www.tscombustion.com/technology.html
Transonic Combustion Inc., Camarillo, Calif., has received a lot of attention this past month after it completed its third round of capital fund raising with the help of high profile clean-tech investor, Khosla Ventures. “We feel pretty excited to have completed our third round of funding in the current economic environment,” said Eric Sharp of Transonic. “We’re doing some pretty remarkable things here.”
I had not seen a photo of their super car, it is really sleek. Companies involved in biofuel are not afraid to break the mold and break the records. They will no doubt go far.
Photo from: http://naturea2z.com/crude-palm-oil.htm
As part of a competitive application process, these seven chapters were selected by checkoff farmer-leaders to participate in 2009. Participating Clean Cities chapters include: Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition (Birmingham), Central Texas Clean Cities (Austin), Clean Fuels Ohio (Columbus), Kansas City Regional Clean Cities, Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities, St. Louis Regional Clean Cities, and Virginia Clean Cities (Virginia Beach) and East Tennessee Clean Fuel Coalition (Knoxville).
Biodiesel is all about farmers, and it looks like we have some recognition of that in this article. And don’t tell me I can’t run my car on soy beans as long as there is one hungry person. I don’t buy that.