http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/biodiesel Blog Articles Tagged with 'biodiesel' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1118033?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel I have been thinking over the last couple of months about what problem to focus my brain cycles on now. I still worry about renewable energy and biodiesel quite a bit and will continue to post on that, but am looking for something a bit more actiona... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:57:24 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1118033?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1117770?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel To the relief of the residents of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast, Hurricane Gustav has been much less destructive than Katrina. Although the region's oil & gas infrastructure appears largely intact, it's a bit too soon to assess the full impac... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:32:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1117770?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1117536?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Thinking about mileage these days. I drive a VW Touareg V10 diesel. Now it gets about 20mpg which is pretty good for a big fast truck. And i run 100% biodiesel, so I don't need to feel like getting 100mpg because I am not burning any dinosaurs. Bu... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:27:43 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1117536?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1117407?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Emirates Business. Alf Yad, a Dubai-based venture capital fund, is taking a majority position in Emirates Biodiesel (EmBio), a startup targeting the initial production of 3 million gallons of biodiesel per year, using inedible oils as feedstock.EmBio... Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:09:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1117407?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1116670?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel From the Columbus Dispatch:State employees who use their personal vehicles for business drove about 5.2 million fewer miles in the past fiscal year than in the previous one, resulting in a $2 million reduction in mileage reimbursements, according to ... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1116670?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115056?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Retail sales of gasoline in Minnesota in July 2008 declined 9% compared to sales in July 2007, according to figures from the Minnesota Department of Commerce. As gasoline sales declined, the amount of ethanol-based E85 sold during the same period inc... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115056?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115076?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel With about 200,000 miles left to go in the two-year Two Million Mile Haul over-the-road B20 biodiesel demonstration (earlier post), data collected from each truck s electronic data recorder are showing fuel efficiency for the B20 blend comparable t... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:08:21 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115076?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115081?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel The National Biodiesel Board has teamed up with Chicago-based Indigenous Energy, LLC, developers of emissions tracking systems, and Los Angeles-based States Logistics, a fleet and logistics company using clean technology, on a 6-month over-the-road p... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:09:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115081?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1114798?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel 08/22/2008 - Renewable Energy Group, a U.S. biodiesel production andmarketing company, recently announced that it has scalable commercialization technology capable of refining andproducing large volumes of high quality algae biodiesel...... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1114798?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1114402?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel The Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA) has released a draft of national Baseline Practices for Sustainability (BPS) in Biodiesel for public review.The 24-page BPS document is available for 45 days beginning 19 August 2008 at http://www.fuelrespon... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:12:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1114402?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113875?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel France, the second largest biofuel producer in Europe, consumed 1.15 million metric tons of biodiesel and 420,000 metric tons of bioethanol in 2007, representing 3.5% of French fuel consumption, according to a Global Agriculture Information Network (... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113875?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113877?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Seattle P-I. Imperium Renewables, the Seattle-based biodiesel producer that opened a 100 million gallon per year plant in Grays Harbor County last year, has lost a key contract to supply about 18 million gallons of biodiesel annually to Royal Caribbe... Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:02:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113877?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113882?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Researchers at the US Department of Energy s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University are developing new nanoscale porous catalysts to produce ethanol with high selectivity from a wide range gasified biomass, including distiller s grain left ove... Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:14:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113882?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113884?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Business Standard. The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has set a target to bring at least 40% of its wasteland under jatropha cultivation for biodiesel feedstock within the coming five years. According to the State Jatropha Mission Cell sources, t... Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:07:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113884?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113885?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Steady-state NOx versus filter smoke number at 35 mph for ULSD, Bu20 and Bu40. Click to enlarge.Butanol can be used as a blending agent in diesel to displace petroleum and reduce emissions of particulate matter without significantly increasing NOx or... Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:48:25 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113885?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112649?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Average fuel economy of the B20 and ULSD buses. The data shows a continuous slight decline in fuel economy for both. Click to enlarge.A 12-month evaluation by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of the in-use performance of buses operatin... Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:38:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112649?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111317?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel US Representatives Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) and John Shimkus (R-IL) introduced bipartisan legislation H.R.6734, The E85 and Biodiesel Access Act that would streamline the process and provides greater incentives for service station owners to install... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:44:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111317?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1111105?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel The TG refinery in Ferndale. It was a hack job to begin with and never really worked. Too small for scale. Not economic.... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:33:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1111105?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1109812?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel Yesterday, Mark over at SNS published the whole special letter that I wrote about here. If I do say so myself, it is a good read. Four years in the biofuel business, how did we loose round 1 to the dinos? What should we do. Real the full letter h... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:05:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1109812?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1109177?rsstype=tag&tag=biodiesel The Jakarta Post. The Samsung Group, plans to invest up to Rp 15 trillion (US$1.64 billion) to develop a 25,000-hectare palm oil plantation and biodiesel refinery in Indonesia, according to Al Hilal Hamdi, head of Indonesia s national team for biof... 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