David Lassman / The Post-Standard, 2005 This 2005 aerial view shows the Port of Oswego. Fort Ontario is at the top.
Washington, D.C. -- Federal stimulus money is being sought for the Auburn Biodiesel Corp. to develop and expand the ports at Oswego and Montezuma to add new biodiesel capabilities at both locations.
The project is expected create up to 300 long-term jobs and provide an economic boost for local farmers, according to the Port of Oswego.
“The proposal by Auburn Biodiesel is truly a win-win-win for New York – our farmers would have a new market, we would create much needed jobs, and we would be investing in renewable fuel and inter-modal transportation,” said U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a news release.
If we are looking to stimulus funds to help create new jobs, then why not support biodiesel expansion, evidently, the ports are where biodiesel needs to be available, as this article points out that most marine shipping is done with diesel engines.
You can’t burn ethanol in a diesel engine. Nope. Just not done. Like mixing oil and water.
But what if you added more water to the ethanol? And came up with a way to mix the hydrated-ethanol blend with the diesel… or better yet, biodiesel… right at the point of ignition? Ahhh… then you’d have something that National Corn Growers Association chairman and Nebraska corn farmer Bob Dickey calls the CleanFlex Power System… a new venture he has formed with Ron Preston, president of CleanFlex. Together, they hope to get the 60 million diesel engines in the U.S. to burn some ethanol as well.
I would wonder about hurting my diesel engine, so does anyone have any information on this system? Would you buy it? Does it make sense to you, or would you rather shoot for B100 pure biodiesel?
Five years ago, barely a quarter of the people asked had ever heard of biodiesel. Today, most people are familiar with the renewable fuel. One of NBB’s core functions is raising the public’s awareness of biodiesel and building confidence in the fuel—and those efforts are paying off. According to an Internet-based survey conducted in August by Moore Information, 86 percent of the participating respondants have now heard of biodiesel. That compares to just 27 percent in June 2004. The survey sampled a representative group of registered voters.
Do you find this study to be true, that more and more people know what biodiesel is all about? Particularly people with diesel cars or trucks seem to know about it, but still many people just raise an eyebrow, eh?
Lynx project specialist Ricky Sonny stands by a biodiesel tank where Lynx buses will refuel. (George Skene, Orlando Sentinel / October 7, 2009)
The typical Lynx bus seats up to 40 people and, on average, burns a gallon of diesel for every 3.9 miles it travels, spitting pollutants out its tailpipe along the way. The regional carrier hopes to cut back on the contaminants from its 269-bus fleet with a fuel-mixing station it's about to open. The plan is to replace 20 percent of the diesel with a cleaner biofuel created from sources as diverse as used cooking oil to soybeans. Lynx stands to get tax breaks that could substantially reduce the cost of the hybrid fuel, though months could pass before there is a decision on that from the federal government. "The savings really come on the improvement to the environment," said Ricky Sonny, who supervises the project for Lynx, which operates in Orlando, Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.
The worst pollution I ever drove behind was a city bus spewing out blacks diesel smoke. Of course all buses should burn biodiesel, it only makes sense that we remove this oil-poison from the air wherever possible.