Friday, May 19, 2006

VIDEO: How to make BioDiesel

There's a show on the Discovery Channel that has a guy who takes on other peoples jobs for the show. In this episode he's making BioDiesel. This is in two parts. I hope you all find this interesting...


Part 1




Part 2

City-owned vehicles to use biodiesel fuel, Closer look: Biofuels - Port of Vancouver turns to alternative ...

City-owned vehicles to use biodiesel fuel
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
City-owned vehicles in San Francisco, including fire engines, buses and even a mobile zoo, will use biodiesel fuel that reduces harmful emissions under an ...
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Lou Ross, President of TexCom, to Present at Platts Biodiesel ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... OTC Pink Sheets: TEXC) announced today that its President and CEO has been selected to present at the 2nd Annual Platts Biodiesel Investor Conference in
Houston ...

Closer look: Biofuels - Port of Vancouver turns to alternative ...
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
... With that simple shift to B20 biodiesel, the port will join the leading edge of a movement to make Washington less dependent on fossil fuels a movement given a ...
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Banking biodiesel

Banking biodiesel
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA,USA
By TATIANA PROPHET Staff Writer. VICTORVILLE — Diesel prices are finally soaring high enough for biodiesel to be a practical alternative for commercial use. ...

VICTORVILLE — Diesel prices are finally soaring high enough for biodiesel to be a practical alternative for commercial use.

Like many companies in the
High Desert, Service Rock depends on trucking for its operations. Now they are experimenting with biodiesel — 35,000 gallons a month.

At its Palmdale plant, the cement mixers and loaders are running on biodiesel purchased from Darryl Evey, former diesel mechanic shop owner,
Apple Valley planning commissioner and founder of High Desert Alternative Fuels.

Evey has balanced his concern for the environment with business sense. With his tractor trailer, Evey makes the six-hour drive to Coachella every few days to pick up a load. This month, he began turning a profit for the first time — with two customers buying in bulk.

Looking ahead to new regulations, Service Rock didn't want to wait till June 1, when Califor nia is mandating a new, ultra-low sulfur fuel called S15, which is costly to refine.

"We'll be paying $4 a gallon for fuel," said Bob Burmeister, Service Rock's president.

Bob Kelley, vice president of operations, said the company has been testing the fuel to make sure it agrees with their trucks. So far, he's been pleased.

"Frankly, it makes the most sense," said Kelley, whose company uses about 200,000 gallons a month for 200 highway trucks and 80 non-highway trucks. "You don't have to do anything to the car."

No conversion is necessary for use of biodiesel, said Evey. All that's needed is a diesel engine. That's because German inventor Rudolph Diesel originally designed his engine to run on peanut oil at the 1900
Paris exposition, according to biodiesel Web sites.

Biodiesel advocates like it because it burns cleaner than diesel. According to biodiesel.org, biodiesel is the first alternative fuel to have fully completed the health effects testing requirements of the Clean Air Act. The fuel greatly reduces unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulates and eliminates sulfur altogether.

Kelley and Burmeister are taking it slow: there are issues with older equipment, which Evey warned them about. Older engines have rubber components, which biodiesel tends to soften. It also tends to clean the sludge from storage tanks.

"You gotta stock up on filters," Burmeister said.

And it turns to gel at 32 degrees, although that can be eliminated with additives.

But for Kelley, the fuel is promising.

"There's a lot of pluses about it," Kelley said. "I'd like to convince everybody not to use it so there's enough for us."

According to the National Biodiesel Board, 150 million gallons of biodiesel are expected to be produced in 2006, but that's only a drop in the bucket compared to the 44.8 billion gallons of diesel produced last year.

There are arguments for consumers to use biodiesel as well. While ethanol is used as an alternative to gasoline, Evey says that when it comes to engines, the diesel has no equal.

"The diesel engine is the most efficient engine in the world," he said. "Better gas mileage, fuel economy, and they last longer and need less maintenance."

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Biodiesel Plant to Open in Owensboro
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA
Kentucky's Governor stopped in Owensboro Thursday to break ground of a new fifty million gallon biodiesel plant. The project, at ...
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GREENSHIFT: INSEQ Makes Announcement

INSEQ Makes Announcement
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
INSEQ is 80% owned by GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF), whose mission is to develop and support companies and technologies that facilitate the ...

 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2006--INSEQ Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: INSQ) today announced its plans to release its financial results for the first quarter of 2006 later this month. INSEQ also plans to provide its shareholders with an update next week on the current status of INSEQ's ongoing development and acquisition plans.

INSEQ is 80% owned by GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF), whose mission is to develop and support companies and technologies that facilitate the efficient use of natural resources and catalyze transformational environmental gains.

About INSEQ Corporation

INSEQ Corporation is a publicly traded company whose mission is to directly facilitate the efficient utilization of natural resources including metals, chemicals, fuels and plastics. More information on INSEQ is available online at www.inseq.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of INSEQ Corporation, and members of their management as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-statements include fluctuation of operating results, the ability to compete successfully and the ability to complete before-mentioned transactions. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.

 

GREENSHIFT: Hugo International Telecom Makes Announcement

Hugo International Telecom Makes Announcement
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Hugo International Telecom is 67% owned by GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF), whose mission is to develop and support companies and ...

 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2006--Hugo International Telecom, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: HGOI) today announced its plans to release its financial results for the first quarter of 2006 later this month. The Company also plans to provide its shareholders with an update next week on the current status of the Company's acquisition and restructuring plans.

Hugo International Telecom is 67% owned by GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF), whose mission is to develop and support companies and technologies that facilitate the efficient use of natural resources and catalyze transformational environmental gains.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Hugo International Telecom, Inc., and members of their management as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-statements include fluctuation of operating results, the ability to compete successfully and the ability to complete before-mentioned transactions. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.

 

Owensboro biodiesel plant under way

Owensboro biodiesel plant under way
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
OWENSBORO -- Owensboro Grain Co. on Thursday ceremonially broke ground for what it said will be the nation's largest biodiesel plant. ...
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City readies for CNG, biodiesel fuel campaign, Powered By Home Brew

City readies for CNG, biodiesel fuel campaign
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
The city administration is set to push motorists to use biodiesel fuel and compressed natural gas starting May 20. The campaign ...

The city administration is set to push motorists to use biodiesel fuel and compressed natural gas starting May 20.

The campaign is part of the central government's plan to make Jakarta a pilot project for the use of environmentally friendly fuels.

"We'll start with the use of CNG and biodiesel fuels in big vehicles like the busway first, and then gradually move on to other public transportation vehicles like taxis and bajaj," Governor Sutiyoso said Thursday.

The campaign will be launched at a new gas station on Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan in East Jakarta with the symbolic filling up of a busway vehicle with CNG. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to attend the event on Saturday afternoon.

Sutiyoso said the administration fully supported the campaign as it was in line with its 2005 bylaw on air pollution.

Out of 264 gas stations in the city, however, only four will offer biodiesel fuels. They are located on Jl. Industri, Central Jakarta and Jl. TB Simatupang in East Jakarta, as well as on Jl. Kapten Pierre Tendean and Jl. Minangkabau, both in South Jakarta.

Biodiesel is a blend of petroleum diesel with oils extracted from plants such as oil palm or jathropa.

State oil and gas company Pertamina will supply the biodiesel, selling it at a price of Rp 4,500 (50 U.S. cents) per liter. In the preliminary stage it will supply 40,000 liters of biodiesel per day. Each gas station will have a capacity of 10,000 liters.

Sutiyoso said he would instruct all gas stations to provide CNG and biodiesel fuels. "They didn't want to sell it in the past because there was no market for it. Now many people will start buying it," he said.

The use of CNG was introduced in 1987 with the opening of 17 gas stations. However, most of the stations closed as the public response to CNG was lukewarm.

He said he would also instruct officials at the administration to switch to gas or biodiesel. "We'll start using it in our operational vehicles".

 

Powered By Home Brew
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
A
Tygh Valley man set up a garage biodiesel refinery that creates fuel — for about 80 cents a gallon. By Susan Hess, 5-18-06. Do ...

 Do fuel prices make you wonder about making your own biodiesel? Maybe see if your favorite restaurant would save their used cooking oil for you?

Gorge-area resident Dick Janz did. Though it might be harder now:
Oregon restaurants and kitchens generate about three and a quarter million gallons of used cooking oil a year — and every ounce is spoken for, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.

 Officials say the oil gets snapped up for Asian markets, for making soap and by Northwest biofuelers small and large.

(Of course, a person could essentially grow biodiesel, as it can be made from most any oil. Squeezed from canola seeds, for instance. An acre of the seed yields between 100 to 400 gallons of oil.)

Janz got in early and now collects used cooking oil from two local restaurants. Janz lives in Tygh Valley, a village about 25 miles south of The Dalles. Like many garage biodiesel producers, he has no background that prepared him for making fuel. And like most others, he makes it only for his own vehicles: a VW Gulf and a one-ton Dodge pickup. In both vehicles, he’s get the same mileage with biodiesel as with regular diesel. He didn’t have to make any modifications to the vehicles.

It’s the side product that makes Janz’s process different: A self-imposed surtax of sorts to support area science education. For each gallon of biodiesel Janz produces, he donates one dollar to Wasco County schools to improve high school science.

“I wasn’t in it to save myself money,” said Janz, “I did it to help the environment. I hope to inspire others so we can reduce our dependence on fuel from the
Middle East . Since my home fuel was inexpensive, I felt I should tax myself, and I wanted to get high school students interested in alternate fuel sources.”

If you’ve ever seen an oil refinery, you know pipes twist and turn and cover acres of ground. Janz’s operation, though, would fit in a dining room and still leave room for the dining table. He bought a Fuel Meister kit that cost him $3,400 and spent another $1,600 in tanks, dollies, and other supplies. And then he started in.

He collects the used oil until he has about 50 gallons and then strains it with a household wire mesh strainer to remove the odd French fry and donut crumbs. The tank he stores it in heats the oil to 125 degrees Fahrenheit. He tests it to see how much lye to add. Then Janz pours a mixture into a plastic vat, consisting of 40 gallons of oil, eight gallons of methanol, and however much lye the test indicates. After stirring it, he leaves the mixture overnight to separate.

The next day, glycerin and residue have sunk to the bottom and the biodiesel floats on top. Janz drains the glycerin off (about six gallons per batch). A mist of water washes the biodiesel to take out any remaining impurities. The water sinks and is drained off. The fuel runs through one final filter as it goes into Janz’s 275-gallon tank. From there he pumps it straight into his vehicles.

Not counting the initial capital expense, Janz’s biodiesel costs him about 80 cents a gallon.

Janz gives the vestigial waste grease to a farmer who mixes it with feed for birds he raises. Janz hasn’t come up with a solution for disposing of the glycerin; some people use it to make soap, but he’s just storing it right now.

Janz has been making biodiesel for only about six months, so the money for schools hasn’t added up to a lot – yet. “The big story,” he says, “is to get farmers to grow something that would make them more energy independent. There is a need for the big (biodiesel) producers and the backyarders.”

At 80 cents a gallon? Maybe Janz is talking to me, or you.

 

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Biodiesel Backer Talks SF Into Oil Alternative

Biodiesel Backer Talks SF Into Oil Alternative
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
(CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO Brie Matthews is a backer of biodiesel, and she is a big reason that all MUNI trains, all fire ... Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil. ...

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 (CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO Brie Matthews is a backer of biodiesel, and she is a big reason that all MUNI trains, all fire trucks and many San Francisco city-owned vehicles will soon run on a cleaner, more environmentally friendly fuel.

Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil. As a firefighter-paramedic for the city of San Francisco, Brie decided a few years ago that biodiesel is such a good alternative to fossil fuels, fire department engines, trucks and ambulances should be using it.

"We're in the business of saving lives, and on our way to saving lives, we're polluting them. I saw a contradiction in that,” Brie says.

It turned out to be cost effective, could cut down on pollution, and help ease dependence on foreign oil. But it's a tough sell to change bureaucratic thinking.

"For the first year, when I was trying to do it on my own, no one would listen. But I just kept at it and kept at it," says Brie.

She found a kindred sole in firefighter Mike Ferry, and together they continued their crusade. It officially ended Thursday. The Mayor, the fire chief, and other city officials announced that by the end of next year, all city diesel vehicle must run on the much cleaner burning blended fuel.

"The city uses right around 8 million gallons a year of diesel. So at a 20 per cent blend, that will be about 1.8 million gallons a year," says Eric Bowen of the S.F. Biodiesel Cooperative.

That will replace 1.8 million gallons of petroleum. The first fire trucks to use the stuff are housed in Bayview-Hunter's Point, the city's poorest neighborhood, one that has long complained of environmental neglect.

It's a change that comes about because Brie Matthews and Mike Ferry had a passion and never gave up, inspiring others who believe individuals actually can make a difference.

 

FFA Students Create Biodiesel In Classroom, Alternative Fuel Sources Are No Secret

FFA Students Create Biodiesel In Classroom
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
Members of
Stuttgart's National FFA Organization raised $4,500 for equipment and used donated fish fry oil to produce 25 gallons of biodiesel. ...

Members of Stuttgart's National FFA Organization raised $4,500 for equipment and used donated fish fry oil to produce 25 gallons of biodiesel. All this occurred right in their school's science lab.

FFA teacher Barry Rogers says the
Stuttgart students are the first FFA chapter in the nation to perform the feat.

The project began with business and marketing students, who came up with a plan to market biodiesel. The students raised enough money to buy discounted equipment from a local biodiesel company and used donated fish fry oil to make the biodiesel.

The students say greater use of biodiesel will reduce the need for foreign oil. The biodiesel made by the students is being used in the group's tractor.

Rogers says the students will take the set-up to the national FFA convention if they can get use of an enclosed trailer.

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Alternative Fuel Sources Are No Secret
Consumer Affairs - USA
... Readily available alternatives to the gas-powered engine include diesel, biodiesel, E85 and even such exotic-sounding solutions as coal and oil shale. ...
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 Alternative Fuel Sources Are No Secret

Diesel, BioDiesel, E85, Hydrogen Top the List

By Joe Benton
ConsumerAffairs.Com

May 18, 2006

As the internal combustion engine sputters into the 21st century choked by the rising cost of gasoline, public attention is turning, however, fitfully, towards alternatives to the old-fashioned gasoline powered buggy.

Automakers are looking to Washington for help in dealing with rising fuel costs but the alternatives to gasoline engines are pretty widely known and already in use in other parts of the world.

Readily available alternatives to the gas-powered engine include diesel, biodiesel, E85 and even such exotic-sounding solutions as coal and oil shale. Hydrogen is drifting out there somewhere.

Not Your Father's Diesel

Because diesel engines can produce excellent fuel efficiency, diesel technology is at the top of the list for many companies and developers as they scramble to come up with technology that meets clean air standards while producing exceptional mileage.

In Europe, diesel engines have long been highly rated and valued by automotive consumers but the technology gets low marks with the same type of consumers in the U.S.

Once a stepchild in the automotive industry as well as with consumers, diesel technology is emerging from the dungeon but the industry still must transform diesel's image from that of a grimy, smelly mess if diesel is to become a serious contender for the future.

Nevertheless, today's diesel engines provide as much as 40 percent better fuel economy and offer more torque at lower RPM when compared to their gasoline counterparts. The engines can be substantially less harmful to the environment if cleaner fuel and improved engine technologies are used.

At least one group of diesel engine and truck manufacturers say they are ready to meet new, cleaner emissions standards starting in January.

In a recent gathering hosted by the Diesel Technology Council, the manufacturers displayed their next generation of cleaner-burning trucks. They used white handkerchiefs to demonstrate that the exhaust from diesel trucks contains no smoke or visible soot.

Combined with existing hybrid technology, clean-burning diesel power could help in the effort to slow global warming as well as carry lots of folks to the grocery store and beyond.

While some automakers don't have plans to offer diesels in light-duty passenger vehicles just yet, all of the major manufacturers are taking a long and hard look at diesel technology.

Diesel power would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and of all the types of internal-combustion engines, diesels remain the most powerful and efficient.

One gallon of diesel fuel can make more power than the same amount of gasoline. As a demonstration of the power and performance of a diesel engine, a diesel-powered Audi sports car won the 24-hour endurance race this year at Daytona International Speedway.

But much like hybrids, diesels require automakers to develop and implement more sophisticated technology to achieve a price that consumers are willing to pay.

Biodiesel and E85

Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for the diesel engine and is high on the list of choices by environmentalists. It's more environmentally friendly than conventional diesel fuel and helps reduce pollutants and engine wear, according to proponents.

Biodiesel fuel is a "drop-in replacement," meaning any diesel engine can use it without modification.

In California, Pacific Biofuel is delivering biodiesel to the greater central coast as it offers a high-quality, clean fuel made from vegetable crops grown on U.S. farms.

The biodiesel can be used as a pure 100% fuel or mixed in any ratio with petroleum diesel.

Pacific Biofuel claims greater engine longevity and improved performance with the use of its biodiesel fuel. The company says that everything in its biofuel comes from "Mother Earth." (Of course, petroleum does too but let's not quibble).

E85 is an alternative to gasoline and is comprised of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. There are some vehicles on the market now or already manufactured that are capable of burning E85.

They are called flexfuel vehicles and were manufactured in part to help automakers comply with U.S. fuel mileage standards. The 2003 Ford Explorer is an example of a flexfuel vehicle.

The trouble is, E85 is hard to find.

The government provides tax breaks to filling stations willing to offer E85 in the form of federal income tax credit for the installation of E85 fueling systems. So far, not a lot of stations are signing up for E85. The tax credit was part of the 2005 Energy Policy Act and provides a 30% federal income tax credit, up to $30,000 per property, to install alternative fuel dispensing systems.

Besides being hard to find, E85 is less powerful per gallon than gasoline. More E85 will be required to cover the same distance traveled with a tank full of gasoline and you will have to fill up more often.

Hydrogen

Many automotive dreamers are looking at hydrogen technology as the yellow brick road into the 21st century for the automotive industry.

They see a global hydrogen economy as a new structure in which hydrogen is a realistic alternative to the world's present wide-scale use of hydrocarbon fuels.

A green hydrogen car might achieve 99 miles per gallon emission-free. Imagine that. Sound too good to be true? Unfortunately, it is, at least right now.

A handful of automakers are designing hydrogen-powered cars. The trouble is, they have not made much headway over the last five years.

In this summer of our internal combustion discontent, for only a moment let's follow the dreamers' path and imagine cars that run on hydrogen, the most abundant element in our universe.

Hydrogen burns twice as efficiently in a fuel cell as gasoline does in an engine, and produces a single waste product, water.

Hydrogen cars would make the country less dependent on fossil fuels coming from the Middle East and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming and other environmental problems.

This is pleasant indeed to contemplate, but hydrogen technology costs a lot of money. Gasoline-powered motors are still easier on the wallet than hydrogen fuel cells and right now, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, the cost of hydrogen fuel is 100 times too high for hydrogen cars to have any impact in the market place.

So the dream may be just that for now. While you pour another few bucks into the ExxonMobil or BP Amoco pot of profits, just remember that a trip in a hydrogen car is probably not too far away -- maybe 10 years or so up the yellow brick path.

 

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Biodiesel power on show, Biodiesel touted to fuel future

Biodiesel power on show
FarmersWeekly - UK
What drew visitors in particular was a New Holland tractor with a sign saying that unmodified versions of the company's TM tractors can be run on 100% biodiesel ...
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Biodiesel touted to fuel future
Burlington Hawk Eye - IA, United States
... candidate Mike Blouin urged a group of southeast Iowans to look to the future and continue to build on new companies such as the city's biodiesel plant. ...
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Sign on I-5 points drivers to Oregon biodiesel station


Sign on I-5 points drivers to Oregon biodiesel station
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
There aren't many places to fill up your biodiesel tank in
Oregon, but now at least one fueling station has a freeway sign. Rising ...

There aren't many places to fill up your biodiesel tank in Oregon, but now at least one fueling station has a freeway sign.

Rising Phoenix Biofuels had a sign for one of its stations installed as part of the blue highway signs on Interstate 5 near Talent.

Rising Phoenix Biofuels is Oregon's first biodiesel station that serves only biofuels; no petroleum fuel products are available. The current price for one gallon of biodiesel is $3.30, which is 5 cents more per gallon than petro-diesel fuel.

Biodiesel Workshops Across America

Biodiesel Workshops Across America
DisInfo.com - New York,NY,USA
... year. We're in the process of buying a bus to convert to Biodiesel. ... G. "It's hard out there for a wannabe biodiesel homebrewer. You ...


Port of Vancouver, USA First to Step up to Biodiesel Challenge

Port of Vancouver, USA First to Step up to Biodiesel Challenge
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
...
May 17, 2006--The Port of Vancouver USA is one of the first ports in the nation to replace regular diesel fuel with environmentally-friendly biodiesel for use ...

 VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--The Port of Vancouver USA is one of the first ports in the nation to replace regular diesel fuel with environmentally-friendly biodiesel for use in its own vehicles and heavy equipment. Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from vegetable oil, including recycled cooking oil. While pure biodiesel contains no petroleum, it can be blended with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend.

The Port of Vancouver will use a combination 20 percent biodiesel blended with 80 percent regular diesel, called "B20." Use of B20 biodiesel can result in a reduction of emissions by up to 20 percent, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"One of the key tenets of our mission is to be a leader in environmental stewardship," said Larry Paulson, Port of Vancouver USA Executive Director. "In addition to reducing emissions in our work environment, this change will help support a new market for Washington agricultural products and reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil."

Last week Port Commissioners approved the purchase of the largest mobile harbor crane in North America, which will be biodiesel compatible. In April, Washington legislators passed a law that requires all state agencies to use a minimum of 20 percent biodiesel for state fleet vehicles by 2009. The Port of Vancouver, USA is the first public port in the state to implement a program for compliance. The port has purchased two trucks with ethanol capability and all future vehicles and equipment will be equipped to run on some form of alternative fuel, whether that is biodiesel or E-85 ethanol, a fuel derived from crops like corn and sugar cane.

Both alternative fuels are considered "energy positive," which means these fuels yield more energy than the power required to produce them. Additionally, the state of Washington hopes that this legislation will spur economic growth through the development of a homegrown biofuels industry, including the growth of biofuel oilseed crops and the construction of biofuel processing plants.

Biodiesel has become even more attractive to the Port of Vancouver USA given the fact that the price of a gallon is now competitive with regular diesel. "With the recent rise in oil prices, using biodiesel makes economic as well as environmental sense," said Curtis Shuck, the port's Director of Facilities.

The Port of Vancouver, USA, created by Clark County taxpayers in 1912, is one of the major ports on the Pacific Coast. Its competitive strengths include available land, versatile cargo handling capabilities, vast transportation networks, a dependable labor force and an exceptional level of service to its customers and community.

 

Straw-bale biodiesel plant will leave small footprint, SF FIRE DEPARTMENT TO ANNOUNCE BIODIESEL PILOT PROGRAM

Straw-bale biodiesel plant will leave small footprint
Northern Ontario Business - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
Greater
Sudbury - Sudbury’s future biodiesel facility will not only offer alternative fuel, but will represent an “alternative” building design that will ...

SF FIRE DEPARTMENT TO ANNOUNCE BIODIESEL PILOT PROGRAM
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... San Francisco Fire Department is expected to announce on Thursday a pilot program in which some fire department vehicles will begin utilizing biodiesel fuel, a ...

Organic biodiesel could pay off for NW farmers (5/17)
Seattle Times - United States
... Some of the puzzle pieces are falling into place. Ground will be broken soon on big new biodiesel and ethanol plants in
Washington and Oregon. ...

 


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