Tag: Biodiesel - Page 5
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Indonesia to Allow More Palm Oil From Peat Lands: Watch Greenhouse Gas Emissions Go Through the Roof
The Feb 13 issue of the Jakarta Post is reporting that Indonesia’s Agriculture Ministry will issue a decree allowing businesses to expand palm oil
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The US Needs a 'True' Biofuels Policy: Environmental Working Group
The good people at Environmental Working Group have issued a statement saying that, as US biofuels policy is not achieving the goals of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing the nation's reliance on foreign
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10 New Biodiesel Refineries to be Built in India by Bharat Renewable Energy
Just last week Mission NewEnergy Ltd announced that it would be building India’s first biodiesel refinery
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Jatropha Biodiesel Economics Could Be Transformed by New Seedcake Purification Method
For all of the promise that Jatropha seeds have in making biodiesel, the fact remains that much of the hype
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Wal-Mart Tests New Diesel-Hybrid Trucks, Reclaimed Cooking Grease and LNG Fuels
A More Fuel-Efficient Truck Fleet Logistics doesn't get bigger than Wal-Mart (except maybe the U.S. Military), and so anything they can do to reduce even by a few % is going to have a pretty big impact when measured in barrels of oil or tons of CO2.
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Beef Fat Turned Into Fuel at New Calgary Biodiesel Plant
Tyson Foods is trying it with partnerships with Syntroleum Corp and ConocoPhillips, now the city of Calgary is trying to get in on the act... Making
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India's First Biodiesel Refinery Planned for State of Orissa
Though its international commercial viability has been far from proven, jatropha-based biofuels have been consistently growing. And it’s not just biodiesel: Two recent jet
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Nature Air To Use Waste Vegetable Oil Biodiesel on All Its Ground Vehicles
While there are some good reasons to question the ecological sustainability of air travel, you can’t say that at least some airlines are trying pretty hard to green their act. Costa Rica’s Nature Air, which bills itself as
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Speak Out on Biofuels: Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Wants Comments on New Standards
Though the need to move beyond first-generation biofuels and establish codified sustainability criteria has gained wider acceptance over the past year, no one such standard exists and plenty of groups have offered their
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Global Biofuel Crop Yields Often Severely Overestimated, New Research Finds
You’ve undoubtedly seen estimates about the crop yields of various plants for use as biofuels. Indeed, when comparing the potential of different crops you need these numbers to make informed agriculture and renewable energy
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Waste Veggie Oil: Good For Your Hands?
How many uses can we find for waste veggie oil and its byproducts? Let us count the ways...The New York Times reports that husband and wife duo Megan & Marshall Dostal want to bring it into your home, in the form of hand soap.
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Away We Go Green: Focus Features Production Embraces More Sustainable Filmmaking
Though there are plenty of films out there spreading green
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Coffee Could Power Your Car, As Well As Wake You Up in the Morning
You may know that coffee is the world's second most traded commodity—a stat undoubtedly given a boost by the great caffeinated blogging legion—but, according to researchers in Nevada coffee could be doubly valuable: For use as
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In Cooking Pots Today, Car Tanks Tomorrow: Vegetable-Oil Collection Initiated in Turkish Town
As in other Mediterranean countries, olive oil is a staple ingredient in the Turkish diet. The country is one of the world's top five producers of olives and dishes cooked in olive oil (zeytinyağlı) often have their own section on
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Biofuel Crops Grown in Saltwater Could Supply 35% of US's Liquid Fuel Needs
In a bid to put to rest the food versus fuel debate two scientists from NASA, Jelte Rozema and Timothy
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Crushing Seed to Fry the Turkey - DIY Thanksgiving Extreme
How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey? From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a
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Fish Waste Biodiesel Project Launched in Vietnam
What to do when your corner of the world consumes 5 million liters of diesel fuel a day and you have a fish processing industry which can produce 120,000 kilograms of processed fish waste daily from just one factory? Turn that waste into biodiesel,
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Recycling Planet Green: Recycle That Turkey Fryer Oil into Biofuel
Usually derived from vegetable oils-soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used-biodiesel
