• Utah Tries Planting Biodiesel Crop Along Roadways - In a pioneering program, the Utah Department of Transportation supported an initiative by researchers from Utah State University to plant oil-producing crops such as canola, safflower and flax  along the sides of highways, which could then be  harvested to make biodiesel.  Drought conditions caused it to flop this first year. (Deseret News; Sept. 1, 2007)

• Honduras Taps Biodiesel From Fish Guts - A fish farm in El Borboton, is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000 gallons of fish oil fuel. (TreeHugger; July 31, 2007)

• Appleseed Biodiesel Reactor Open Source - Complete plans for biodiesel homebrewing equipment, using off-the-shelf parts and a water heater, for less than $200 in materials. (PESWiki; May 7, 2005)

• Biodiesel > Biodiesel Kit :: Biodiesel Processor - Site features information about making biodiesel, offers biodiesel kits, biodiesel benefits, cautions, and reasons for using biodiesel. (Thanks Assaf)

• Domestic Energy Partners - BetterBiodiesel.com - John Crawford of Better Biodiesel has invented a chemical process to produce biodiesel more cleanly, cheaply, and efficiently.  Building that the prototype pilot processor was in burned to the ground, cause unknown and suspicious. (UtahBiodiesel.com; Feb. 16, 2006)

• Earthrace: Racing around the world for a better planet - Earthrace is a bid to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat, and they'll try it using only renewable fuels. An accompanying 18-month tour at 60 ports around the globe will promote fuels like biodiesel and raise awareness for sustainable resource use. (TreeHugger; Feb. 22, 2006)

• Chevron Investing in Biodiesel Plant - Say goodbye to garage-made biofuels, as mass availability begins to dominate the scene. Chevron Corporation has taken a 22 percent investment stake in the first large-scale U.S. biodiesel facility, which will have an initial production of 20 million gallons per year. (TreeHugger; May 16, 2006)

• First Biodiesel from Sewage - Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic has produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds.  The company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million liters of fuel per year from Blenheim by April. (New Zealand Herald; May 12, 2006) (Scoop) (See Slashdot discussion)

• Bio Diesel from Jatropha seed - Bio diesel from Jatropha Curcus "is nature's substitute bio fuel". BioDieselToday.com manufactures and exports bio diesel units.

• IntergalacticHydrogen.com - Builds / converts multi-fuel, hydrogen, methane, propane, biodiesel and ethanol automobiles and appliances.  Services include alternative fuel vehicle diagnostic and repair.  Also sells wind turbines, solar systems, and fuel cell kits.
  See Sterling Allan's video interview with Tai Robinson - (27 min; OSEN; July 2005).

• DieselSecrets.com Claims 46 Cents Per Gallon - DieselSecrets.com claims you can get your diesel for only 46 cents per gallon, by getting free waste oil from restaurants, filtering it, and adding their proprietary solution. (PESWiki; Oct. 8, 2005)

• Biodiesel Solutions Inc - Company sells ready-to-go biodiesel makers to fit in your garage or shed. Said to make 40 gallons/day, at 70 cents per gallon -- just add vegetable oil, methanol and lye.  Biodiesel is cheaper and burns cleaner. (PESWiki; Aug. 24, 2005)

• Tonga has huge fuel crop in Coconuts - A group of Brigham Young University students have found that fuel does grow on trees - and it may help save a faltering island economy. The students created a formula that takes 10 coconuts mixed with methanol and sodium hydroxide to produce a liter of diesel fuel with a byproduct of glycerin, which can be made into soap or compost. (Salt Lake Tribune; June 1, 2007) (also Deseret News)

• Tiny Reactor Boosts Biodiesel Production - The device - about the size of a credit card - pumps vegetable oil and alcohol through tiny parallel channels, each smaller than a human hair, to convert the oil into biodiesel almost instantly. (PESN; Apr. 19, 2006)

• How a Diesel Engine Chamber Ignites - John Swain, physicist at Northeastern University, shows how a rapidly compressed chamber lights a cotton ball on fire, to illustrate how a diesel engine works. (DiscoveryChannel.ca; Sept. 30, 2004)

• Pumpago.com - America dependent on domestic fuel - New activist site considers how America can reduce gasoline prices, gain independence from OPEC, create a new energy industry based on the gassification of coal. Considers the costs and benefits of biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, and hybrid cars.

• Bio fuel home brewers battle big refiners in Utah's grease war - In Salt Lake County, making biodiesel, at least on a homebrew level, has come to a screeching halt due to a law on the books that makes it against the law to collect waste veggie oil unless you have a "Liquid Waste Handling Permit" costing $125.00/year. (Salt Lake Tribune / Utah Biodiesel Supply; June 11, 2006)

• The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis - George Monbiot points out that the demand for biodiesel is going beyond recycling the fat from frying potatoes. To meet this demand, the crop being planted is palm trees, for which forests are being cut down. (Guardian.uk; Dec. 6, 2005) (Thanks Mary-Sue Haliburton)

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