This week’s podcast deals with episode 1 of our biofuels series: Biodiesel & Vegetable Oil. We outline what it takes to run a diesel engine on vegetable oil and how to make biodiesel, two common alternative fuels for diesel engines. We also talk about pressing your own oils from oilseeds, uses for the leftover “cake”, [...]

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1. Making Biodiesel
2. Vegetable Oil: Transportation and Home Heating Fuel
3. Resources for Biodiesel Class at Canton Energy Fair

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This week’s podcast deals with episode 1 of our biofuels series: Biodiesel & Vegetable Oil. We outline what it takes to run a diesel engine on vegetable oil and how to make biodiesel, two common alternative fuels for diesel engines. We also talk about pressing you own oils from oilseeds, uses for the leftover “cake”, [...]

Related posts:

1. Vegetable Oil: Transportation and Home Heating Fuel
2. Making Biodiesel
3. Making your own Biodiesel

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A buddy of mine works for Northern Biodiesel, in Ontario, NY. The only ASTM certified producer of biodiesel in the Rochester region, they are at the forefront of sustainable fuel from crops production. Biodiesel is a carbon neutral direct replacement for diesel fuel and home heating oil. They are happy to ship their green biofuel [...]

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1. Biodiesel, or Bioethanol?
2. Biodiesel Processor System
3. Making Biodiesel

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In what could be a major breakthrough, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has directly produced fuel from the plentiful carbon dioxide in the air around us using highly engineered photosynthetic microbes.

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As I’ve said before, SEMA is not usually a place you expect to see lots of alternative fuel vehicles. But in recent years there has been a paradigm shift, and increasing floor space has been devoted to debuting technologies and cars that conserve gas, rather than waste it.

Factory Five, out of Wareham Massachusetts, is a well-known maker of kit cars based on classic Shelby designs including the Cobra and Daytona. Amp=D has taken one of their kit cars based on the iconic ‘33 Ford and built a powerful electric drivetrain around this handsome hot rod.

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